Ripple says asset managers are preparing for XRP Ledger’s next payments upgrade

RippleX says developers and some asset managers are building commercial projects that will use Batch V1.1, an XRP Ledger amendment that groups up to eight transactions into a single operation so they either all succeed or the entire group is rolled back. RippleX engineering head Ayo Akinyele told CoinDesk the feature is especially useful for delivery-versus-payment flows, where asset transfers and matching payments must occur atomically. Batch V1.1 could also let exchanges, wallets and marketplace operators attach platform fees directly to a customer’s payment so the fee and the payment are processed as one operation rather than as separate transfers. RippleX said several projects are being developed with Batch in mind and that activation would allow those builds to move closer to production. The amendment entered a 14-day activation countdown on Sept. 15 at 14:06:41 UTC. If support among validators remains at or above 80% for the full window, Batch V1.1 is projected to activate shortly after the same time on Sept. 29; validators can change their votes during the countdown and a drop below 80% would pause the clock and require a new window after majority is regained. At the time of reporting, 30 of 35 tracked validators had voted in favor — above the 28 votes needed to start the countdown. Batch V1.1 is a rebuilt version of an earlier proposal that was withdrawn after researchers identified a critical flaw in Batch V1.0’s signature-validation logic in February. That vulnerability could have let an attacker include transactions from another account under certain conditions. RippleX said the vulnerable code never activated on the live ledger because the amendment had not reached activation. The team used the issue to redesign parts of the signing and authorization model, expanded the security review, and released the replacement implementation in xrpld version 3.3.0 on Aug. 6. The review process included internal adversarial testing, AI-assisted analysis, a Sherlock attack contest, and assessments by security firms Halborn and Common Prefix, according to RippleX.