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Morning Edition · Friday, October 23, 2026Published at 1:49 AM EDT · New York
XRP Ledger Restores Normal Closing Times, but a Dip in Validator Votes Pushes a Broad Bug-Fix Amendment to November 4
Support for the Cleanup3_4_0 amendment fell to 26 of 35 trusted validators on October 21, below the 29 required, which restarted its two-week approval clock.
The XRP Ledger returned to normal closing times on October 22 after operators applied a configuration change, CryptoSlate reported. Some ledgers had begun taking far longer than the usual three to five seconds to close. Developers are still…
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Base-Layer Upgrades Slip on Security Review
Major base-layer upgrades will keep missing their published dates because every change to gas, state or consensus rules must be checked against a large set of immutable deployed contracts and a validator set that has to coordinate, so roadmaps run later than announced and fixes for live defects wait on the same process.
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