Overview
- XRPL’s fixCleanup3_1_3 amendment is scheduled to activate on May 27, and nodes that do not upgrade to version 3.1.3 risk amendment blocking, service disruption, and loss of communication with updated peers.
- The release targets bug fixes rather than new features, covering NFT cleanup, Permissioned Domains, Vaults, and the Lending Protocol, with a default validator vote set to yes.
- David Schwartz, who posted Monday, said XRPL experiences more events that are technically hard forks because its architecture uses smart transactors that change network rules through software amendments.
- Schwartz rejected a one‑node‑one‑vote model and said XRPL relies on Unique Node Lists, which are curated sets of trusted validators that help prevent Sybil attacks where bad actors spawn many fake nodes.
- He added that a validator split would only persist if each side maintains a working UNL and compatible code, and project leaders reported about 44% of nodes had upgraded as they urged the rest to update before activation.