New XRP Ledger Features Face Community Stress Test: Is Next XRPL Update Ready to Drop?

The next major XRP Ledger upgrade is moving closer to reality after upcoming features went through a community-driven security review.

In the past week, RippleX Head of Product Jazzi Cooper shared details of an upcoming XRPL release 3.3.0, which includes five amendments.

These are Confidential MPTs, a feature that brings native privacy to Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs) on the XRP Ledger by combining zero-knowledge proofs with elliptic-curve encryption; Batch, which enables up to eight transactions across different accounts to execute atomically in a single ledger; Permission Delegation, which allows institutions to delegate narrowly scoped transaction permissions without handing over full signing authority; Sponsored Fees and Reserves, which allows a sponsor to pay XRP transaction fees and account reserves on behalf of another account; and Dynamic MPT, which allows issuers of multipurpose tokens to define, at issuance, exactly which properties may be updated over time.

In an X post, the XRPL operations X account reported that the upcoming XRP Ledger features in XRPL 3.3.0 had just undergone adversarial testing by the community.

Ripple engaged Sherlock, a Web3 security firm, to bring competitive external review to the five upcoming areas of XRPL functionality before they are activated.

$309,000 RLUSD Unlocked in Rewards

As stated earlier, Ripple collaborated with Sherlock to bring competitive external review to five upcoming areas of XRPL functionality before broader adoption, with participants from the XRP community earning rewards by helping improve the amendments.

The five upcoming areas of functionality are: Batch Transactions, Permission Delegation, MPT DEX, Confidential Transfers for MPT, and Sponsored Fees and Reserves. Together, those areas touched transaction execution, delegated authority, market structure, token privacy, fee sponsorship, and reserve logic.

Two weeks of adversarial pressure across the five core feature areas revealed 2 Critical, 6 High, 29 Medium, and 59 Low issues, with $309,000 in RLUSD rewards unlocked, and there were valid findings in every one.

XRP Ledger version 3.2.1 was released on August 1 as a hot fix for the manifest flood observed on July 31. The XRP community now anticipates the upcoming version 3.3.0, set to unlock key amendments for the network.