XRP Ledger's Batch V1.1 upgrade has maintained support from 30 of 35 tracked validators and is approaching activation on September 29. The feature allows up to eight transactions to be grouped together to succeed or fail as a unit, with Ripple reporting that asset managers and commercial projects are already preparing to use it following extensive security reviews.
XRP Healthcare, a blockchain project built on the XRP Ledger, is investigating unauthorized transactions that affected approximately 4,011 XRPH Wallet accounts beginning September 3, with about $452,000 in XRP and related assets removed. The company has traced 267,664 XRP and 23.2 million XRPH tokens on-chain.
Evernorth is preparing to deploy its XRP holdings across the XRP Ledger ecosystem as a proposed native lending functionality undergoes review on the network. The company's Chief Business Officer Sagar confirmed the firm is eyeing DeFi opportunities tied to the potential new lending framework.
Aviva Investors has launched a tokenized share class of its US Dollar Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger after receiving approval from Irish regulators, marking a significant institutional adoption of blockchain technology for traditional asset management.
According to XRPL AI Hub data cited by Finbold, the XRP Ledger had recorded 1,434,517 agentic transactions through the x402 Protocol as of July 22, 2026, up approximately 127% since launch. The service was supported by 129 merchants, while XRP and Ripple USD (RLUSD) had been used to settle agentic payments for services including trading data, APIs and computing resources.
