XRP Ledger operators are staring down a familiar kind of “deadline drama” on 
Thursday, after one community tracker warned that a large chunk of XRPL 
servers are about to get amendment blocked, basically pushed to the sidelines 
until they upgrade. “In about ~10 hours 418 (!!) out of 999 XRPL servers will 
go DOWN as they become amendment blocked!” wrote X user Krippenreiter, adding 
that amendment-blocked rippled servers can’t “determine the validity of a 
ledger,” “submit transactions,” “process transactions,” or “participate in the 
consensus process.” Will This Impact The XRP Ledger? That sounds catastrophic 
if you’ve never watched XRPL governance do its thing. But the important nuance 
is right there in the name: amendment blocking is a safety feature, not a 
network failure mode. When new protocol rules activate, old software can’t 
reliably interpret ledgers anymore, so the network forces those servers into a 
non-participating state rather than letting them guess. Related Reading: XRP 
Price Falls To Critical Support Level, Is It Time To Panic? So does “almost 
half the servers” going amendment-blocked matter if activity spikes? “Not at 
all,” Krippenreiter replied to one user. “All dUNL validators are safe, so all 
‘trusted’ validators will continue to validate as expected. (and behave under 
load)… For everything else there is ‘FeeEscalation’.” The point he’s making: 
consensus comes from a trusted validator set, and fee escalation is designed 
to push transaction costs higher as the ledger gets busy, throttling spam and 
overload attempts. Other XRPL watchers mostly treated it as routine 
maintenance, not an existential moment. “Is this unusual or dangerous? No. 
This happens almost every amendment cycle,” another user wrote, listing prior 
change windows and noting that lagging nodes typically upgrade later. The XRPL 
amendment process itself is built around a long lead time: an amendment needs 
sustained supermajority support from trusted validators for two weeks before 
it flips on. Related Reading: Best XRP Buy Zone? Analyst Breaks Down The Key 
Levels Still, the optics aren’t nothing. Having hundreds of public servers 
fall behind at once can be a real-world nuisance for wallets, explorers, and 
businesses that lean on third-party infrastructure. Even if consensus is fine, 
fewer up-to-date nodes can mean less redundancy at the edges — more brittle 
public endpoints, more support tickets, more “why is my transaction not going 
through?” posts. And there is a concrete upgrade path. XRPL.org’s release 
notes for rippled 2.6.2 describe a new fixDirectoryLimit amendment plus a 
critical bug fix — the kind of stuff you don’t want to procrastinate on if you 
run production infrastructure. The short version: no, XRPL isn’t “going down.” 
But if you’re still running old rippled in late 2025, the network is about to 
remind you that upgrades aren’t optional. At press time, XRP traded alongside 
the broader market wide sentiment, down -1.5% over the past 24 hours. Featured 
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