Key Insights:
- Ripple news today hinges on developers introducing Rippled 3.1.1 as a security patch following the discovery of a vulnerability.
- SBI Ripple Asia and DSRV Labs are exploring XRPL for payments and remittances in Japan and Korea.
- XRPL average daily successful payments jumped from 1.5 million to 2.5 million quarter-over-quarter.
Dominating the Ripple news landscape is the move from developers who recently unveiled a new security patch. This is a release for the XRP Ledger (XRPL) reference server software, rippled. The new security patch, referred to as Rippled 3.1.1, introduces two main changes to XRPL.
Ripple News: What Changes With Rippled 3.1.1?
XRPL Validator Grape brought the attention of the crypto community to the launch of Rippled 3.1.1 in an X post.
As per the Ripple news, Grape pointed out that the core update completely disables two related amendments. This includes the Batch transaction type (XLS-56) and its companion amendment fixBatchInnerSigs.
According to Grape, these features were disabled after Pranamya Keshkamat and Cantina AI discovered a vulnerability through responsible disclosure.
Per the Ripple news, the exact details of the bug are not publicly detailed. However, it was severe enough that Ripple developers opted to disable rather than try to patch the bug.
This is a preventative move, not damage control, since the Batch amendment had not yet activated on the mainnet. The amendment proposal received only 11 favorable votes out of 34 validators, while 23 voted against it.
In addition to disabling the two amendments, Ripple also rotated the GPG key used to sign rippled packages.
Due to this change, validators are urged to download the new key if they installed rippled from apt or yum repositories. Failure to import and trust the new key will lead to failure of future upgrades.
For emphasis, the fixBatchInnerSigs amendment was a companion bug-fix amendment introduced in rippled 3.1.0 this January. The amendment aimed to correct signature validation logic for inner batch transactions.
However, developers quickly flagged fixBatchInnerSigs as something node operators and observers should watch closely.
Ripple News: SBI Holdings and DSRV Examine XRPL Payments
In another Ripple news, SBI Ripple Asia announced a strategic collaboration with DSRV Labs.
SBI Ripple Asia, a joint venture between SBI Holdings and Ripple Labs, is focused on promoting blockchain in Asian financial services.
On the other hand, DSRV Labs is a Korean blockchain infrastructure provider that builds and operates blockchain infrastructure.
Leveraging their partnership, both entities are jointly researching the feasibility of implementing blockchain-based services in the remittance and payment sector.
Per the Ripple news, this is a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for joint research, not an immediate service rollout.
As revealed in the announcement, the research specifically focuses on how the XRP Ledger can be practically applied to remittance and payments. Also, the blockchain payments exploration is targeted primarily at systems and business environments in Japan and Korea.
The recognition of XRPL as a candidate platform is due to its increasing adoption in the financial sector worldwide. The blockchain is fast, with low-cost settlement and cross-border liquidity via payment channels.
Growth in XRP Ledger Payment Stats
Moreover, the XRPL network is exploding, as announced by market analyst STEPH IS CRYPTO on X.
The analyst posted a chart showing a huge jump in average daily successful payments quarter-over-quarter.
In Q4 2025, average daily successful payments hovered around 1.5 million. So far this quarter (Q1 2026), daily successful payments have climbed to around 2.5 million, representing about 40% spike.
The Ripple news shows the growth in the XRPL network usage is largely attributed to increased adoption in payment and settlements.
Additionally, XRPL leads in tokenized U.S. Treasuries. As a result, platforms and entities are utilizing the blockchain infrastructure to expand RWA tokenization.
Earlier in the week, Dubai leveraged XRPL as the underlying platform to enable secondary trading of 7.8 million tokenized property units.
Furthermore, recent upgrades, RLUSD stablecoin expansion, and institutional integrations have contributed to driving organic activity into XRPL.