On Feb. 5, Ripple chief technology officer David Schwartz reported that the network is now recovering before adding, \u201cWe don\u2019t know exactly what caused the issue yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
The XRP Ledger (XRPL<\/a>) experienced a rare one-hour outage late on Feb 4 when block production stopped at ledger height 93927173.<\/p>\n However, the network recovered on its own without requiring major interventions from validators. According to Schwartz, while consensus was running, validations weren\u2019t being published, \u201ccausing the network to drift apart.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cVery few UNL operators actually made any changes, as far as I can tell, so it\u2019s possible the network spontaneously recovered,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n A Unique Node List (UNL) is a core component of the XRPL consensus mechanism that acts as a trusted validator directory to ensure network integrity and transaction finality.<\/p>\n The network is now recovering. We don\u2019t know exactly what caused the issue yet.<\/p>\n Super-preliminary observation: It looked like consensus was running but validations were not being published, causing the network to drift apart. Validator operators manually intervened to choose a\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 David \u201cJoelKatz\u201d Schwartz (@JoelKatz) February 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n \u201cOnce servers started seeing a few validations from a few sources, they were able to build enough consensus to pull the network over to a coordinated ledger stream after the last ledger the network managed to validate,\u201d explained Schwartz, who added that these were all preliminary findings.<\/p>\n He confirmed that no assets on XRPL were lost, adding, \u201cIt just caused ledgers not to be seen as trusted for about an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n The incident occurred during a period of changes for the network as it recently reduced its base reserve requirement from 10 XRP to 1 XRP.<\/p>\n Additionally, the validator structure was modified in 2023 to reduce Ripple\u2019s influence to 2 out of 35 validators.<\/p>\n The network had faced other technical issues in recent months, including a node crash in November 2024 and full history node failures in September requiring emergency patches.<\/p>\n XRP prices have taken a hit, dumping 10% on the day in a fall to $2.45 following the incident.\u00a0The cross-border payment token was trading at $2.49 at the time of writing, down 26% from its 2025 high of $3.38 in mid-January.<\/p>\n XRP fell back to $2<\/a> following the imposition of Donald Trump\u2019s trade tariffs over the weekend but managed to recover<\/a> to almost $2.80 on Feb. 4.<\/p>\n Ripple\u2019s native token has performed very well in the recent crypto rally, having gained almost 400% since the same time last year. Nearly all of those gains have come in the past three month,s with the change in guard in American politics promising a brighter future<\/a> for crypto companies.<\/p>\n The post XRP Ledger Recovers Following Brief \u2018Network Drift\u2019 Outage<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Feb. 5, Ripple chief technology officer David Schwartz reported that the network is now recovering before adding, \u201cWe don\u2019t know exactly what caused the issue yet.\u201d The XRP Ledger (XRPL) experienced a rare one-hour outage late on Feb 4 when block production stopped at ledger height 93927173. However, the network recovered on its own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":41778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Rare Ripple Outage<\/h2>\n
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