The XRP Ledger (XRPL) was briefly unavailable early Wednesday as a consensus mechanism design led to a temporary halt in network operations.
The incident began when the network’s consensus process appeared to function, but validations were not being published, causing the network’s ledgers to “drift apart.”
In the XRP Ledger, consensus among validators is crucial for updating the ledger with new transactions. If validators cannot agree on which transactions to include in the next ledger version, the network can’t move forward.
A “drift” in this context means that while the consensus protocol was technically running, validations (or confirmations of transaction sets) weren’t being published.
At least one validator operator manually intervened to reset the network’s consensus to a previously validated ledger state, although the network seemed to have rectified the problem independently, Ripple CTO David Schwarz said in a X post after the incident.
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