XRP price focus shifts to conditional November 4 Ledger upgrade
Published on 10/30/2026 at 13:08 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWSWhat XRP Holders Should Watch
- The fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment is now conditionally scheduled for November 4 after validator support fell below the required threshold.
- Support dropped to 26 of 35 trusted validators on October 21, resetting the 14-day approval countdown.
- Investing.com showed XRP at 1.3093 USD with a market capitalization of 82.92 billion USD when checked on October 30, 2026.
The XRP price was shown at 1.3093 USD on October 30, 2026, at 16:57:51 Berlin time on Investing.com. The page listed a 24-hour range of 1.2865 to 1.3263 USD, a market capitalization of 82.92 billion USD and a 24-hour trading volume of 2.10 billion USD. These are the displayed market data for the page at the time of checking, not a verified UTC day-close comparison.
Why the Ledger Upgrade Was Delayed
The XRP Ledger's fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment missed its expected October 23 activation after validator support temporarily fell below the required threshold. Coinpaper reported that support fell to 26 of 35 trusted validators on October 21, below the at least 29 votes needed to maintain the more-than-80-percent supermajority.
Support recovered to 29 votes by 14:46 UTC, but the interruption reset the mandatory 14-day countdown. Later readings cited by Coinpaper showed support at 31 or more validators. November 4 is therefore a conditional activation date, dependent on uninterrupted support, rather than a guaranteed completion date.
Technical Cleanup, Not Lending Launch
The amendment is primarily a set of technical corrections associated with the xrpld 3.4.0 release. The reported changes address token permissions and also include adjustments affecting automated market makers, escrow handling, transaction signatures and Single Asset Vault calculations.
The delayed amendment should not be confused with the proposed native lending system. Coinpaper reported that the LendingProtocol and LendingProtocolV1_1 proposals each had 19 validator votes, while SingleAssetVault had 21, leaving all three below the required threshold at the time covered by the report.
Investor Context
The XRP price remains exposed to the wider crypto market, while the Ledger timetable is primarily a network-governance issue. The technical update could matter to developers and applications using the network, but the available reporting does not establish a direct price reaction. The official XRP Ledger website describes the network as a decentralized public Layer 1 blockchain and says transactions settle in 3 to 5 seconds.
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