Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 8, 2026Published at 1:45 AM EDT · New York

XRP Ledger's Batch Amendment Stalls at 68.6 Percent as Cardano Prepares Its Own Fork

Validator consent, not engineering, now sets the pace on both networks, with the XRP Ledger amendment needing 80 percent support held for 14 days and Cardano shipping a node release ahead of a possible late-2026 hard fork.

The XRP Ledger's BatchV11 amendment, which lets several operations be submitted as one atomic batch, holds 68.57 percent validator support and must exceed 80 percent for 14 consecutive days before it activates. The amendment process is deli…