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Ripple released the XRP Ledger 3.3.0 upgrade on Aug. 7, adding six amendments that bring zero-knowledge privacy, batch settlement, and permission controls to the network's tokenization stack.
Ripple released the XRP Ledger (XRPL) 3.3.0 upgrade on Aug. 7, adding six amendments that strengthen privacy, settlement efficiency, and asset management on the network. The release targets institutional real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, a segment Ripple has made central to its 2026 roadmap.
"This is a big update for the XRPL," Vijay Khanna, director of engineering at Ripple, said, noting the release went through multiple testing rounds, an attackathon, and AI scans before shipping. J. Ayo Akinyele, head of engineering at RippleX, said the upgrade, "if approved, would continue expanding the XRPL's capabilities for tokenized assets and real-world financial use cases."
The six amendments — Confidential Transfer, BatchV1_1, DynamicMPT, PermissionDelegationV1_1, Sponsor, and fixCleanup3_3_0 — enable encrypted multi-purpose token (MPT) balances, atomic execution of up to eight transactions, entity-sponsored fees and reserves, delegated transaction permissions, and issuer-mutable MPT properties. Activation requires at least 80 percent validator support over two weeks, so node operators must upgrade to avoid an amendment-blocked state.
Two of the amendments, Batch and Permission Delegation, were previously pulled from the mainnet roadmap after critical bugs surfaced. A Feb. 19 disclosure from XRPL Labs detailed a signature-check flaw in Batch that could have let an attacker execute a payment from a victim's account without their private key; the bug was caught during the voting phase before activation. Permission Delegation was similarly shelved after a September 2025 disclosure flagged unauthorized fee deductions.
The corrected versions return alongside Confidential Transfer, which hides MPT balances and transfer amounts on the public ledger while letting designated issuers or auditors view transaction data. Mayukha Vadari, staff software engineer at Ripple, said the release also cuts memory usage by 10 to 15 percent, improves online-delete performance, and fixes 60 bugs uncovered by an AI red-team effort.
XRP traded at $1.02 as of 10:30 UTC, down 2 percent in 24 hours after the Senate delayed the Clarity Act vote until September, with a session range of $1.02 to $1.05. Trading volume rose 17 percent in the same window. CoinGlass data shows total XRP futures open interest climbed 1.02 percent in 24 hours to $2.35 billion, with Binance open interest up 0.61 percent and OKX up 2 percent in the past hour.
The upgrade follows Ripple's backing of ZILO and Licuido to build tokenization infrastructure around XRPL, and a global public nodes network launched ahead of the mainnet transition. Grayscale's GDLC ETF also raised its XRP weight, though some analysts still target $0.90 on the token. For builders and issuers, the 3.3.0 vote serves as a test of whether XRPL can scale into institutional finance without sacrificing execution speed.
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