XRP amendment misses October 23: what to check before November 4

The protocol update fixCleanup3_4_0 will not go live on the XRP Ledger on October 23, 2026. Validator support fell below the required threshold for around two hours on October 21, and the mandatory count started over. A query of the XRP Ledger mainnet that cryptoticker.io ran itself on October 22, 2026 shows the new earliest date: November 4, 2026, 14:46 UTC. For holders, nothing changes on the ledger until then, and the price has not reacted to the delay so far. XRP trades at $1.32, or €1.18, 2.46 percent below its level 24 hours earlier. What exactly was delayed, why two hours cost twelve days, and which part of it concerns you at all is set out in this article. The main point first: the much-watched lending protocol of the XRP Ledger was never part of this date and stays switched off after November 4 as well. Two hours below the threshold reset the 14-day count An amendment is a protocol change to the XRP Ledger that the network's validators vote on. It is not deployed on a fixed date but only becomes active once it has met one condition for two full weeks: more than 80 percent of the trusted validators have to vote in favour, at every check in that period. If support falls to 8...