blockchain governance
XRP Ledger Enters Vote on Biggest Upgrade in Years With Privacy, Batch Transactions
The XRP Ledger is heading toward its most substantial protocol upgrade in years, with a bundled package of six amendments entering validator voting on July 20, 2026, and activation potentially arriving within weeks if support coalesces around the 80% threshold required for approval. The upgrade introduces batch transactions, confidential transfers, sponsored fees, permission delegation, and...
Cardano Van Rossum Fork Activates First Fully Community-Governed Upgrade
Cardano’s first fully community-governed hard fork went live on Saturday, July 18, activating Protocol Version 11 and validating a governance experiment that took nearly five years to mature into practice. The Van Rossum upgrade, named in tribute to Dutch developer Max van Rossem who died in October 2025, reduces smart contract costs, introduces new cryptographic...
XRP Ledger Enters Critical Vote on 14-Billion Dollar Lending Protocol
The XRP Ledger is entering the most critical governance phase in its 14-year history, with validators preparing to decide the fate of XLS-66, a native lending protocol that would transform the network from a payments-only system into a full-fledged credit platform. The amendment, which entered active validator voting following the January 28, 2026 release of...