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Morning Edition · Monday, October 19, 2026Published at 1:41 AM EDT · New York
XRP Ledger validators set to activate a token-burn fix on Friday while the native lending protocol still lacks 10 votes
The fixCleanup3_4_0 package closes a flaw that could let PaymentBurn delegates create tokens instead of destroying them, and the lending amendment has 19 of the 29 validator votes it needs.
XRP Ledger (XRPL) validators have a bug-fix amendment on course to activate on Friday, and it partly repairs a lending system that the network has not yet approved. The package, fixCleanup340, is scheduled to go live at about 09:34 UTC on O…
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