Four Days Left: XRP Ledger Key Fix Upgrade Eyes October Activation

The is currently on for fixCleanup3_4_0, a collection of fixes for Single Asset Vaults, the Lending Protocol, Automated Market Makers, the permissioned DEX, trust lines, NFTs, MPTs, Escrow, Sponsorship, transaction signing, and permission delegation, which is set to activate on the in the coming days.An amendment needs more than 80% support, held for 14 days, to activate on the XRP Ledger, with a potential date of Oct 23, 2026, 9:34 AM UTC for fixCleanup3_4_0, in the next 4 days as seen on XRPScan.fixCleanup3_4_0 follows fix upgrades in recent months. Back in March 2026, it was announced that Ripple was standing up a dedicated AI-assisted red team to continuously hunt for vulnerabilities in the XRP Ledger.The 3.1.3 release was the first dedicated security release to come out of this effort, with no new features, just hardening. This was followed by fixCleanup3_2_0, which was enabled in July.fixCleanup3_3_0, a collection of fixes for Single Asset Vaults, the Lending Protocol, Automated Market Makers, the permissioned DEX, Checks, and pseudo-accounts, was launched in October 2026.Expectations are currently rising for fixCleanup3_4_0, which brings about 25 outlined changes to the XRP Ledger, including exempting an IOU issuer from their own global freeze on NFT offers in their own currency and changing authorized trust lines to implicitly authorize a pseudo-account counterparty, among others.October developments continueOctober continues to be a busy month for the XRP Ledger and the Ripple ecosystem. XRP Seoul 2026, the largest XRP event in Asia, was held on October 3 with over 5,000 attendees.Permission delegation and Batch amendments were launched on October 8 and 9, respectively. In the days after its launch, Batch accounted for over 15% of XRPL mainnet transactions and was the number 3 transaction type.From October 27 to 29, Swell will be held in New York, with Brad Garlinghouse, Terrence Duffy of CME Group, Tom Farley of Bullish, Matt Damon of Water.org, and leaders from BNY, Coinbase, Robinhood, Barclays, State Street, and Jump, among others, set to participate in the event.