XRP Ledger Brings Back Withdrawn Features for Another Vote
xrpld 3.3.0 also brings back Batch and Permission Delegation after earlier versions were withdrawn over critical security flaws. The validator vote will decide whether the XRP Ledger activates these features next week.
Key Takeaways
- XRP Ledger's xrpld 3.3.0 includes five new features for validators, including Confidential MPT, Batch, Permission Delegation, Sponsored Fees and Reserves, and Dynamic MPT.
- Batch and Permission Delegation are returning in updated form after earlier versions were withdrawn because of serious security issues.
- Amendments on the XRP Ledger only go live if at least 80 percent of trusted validators agree for two weeks in a row.
The next software update for the XRP Ledger is set to put five new validator features up for a vote, including two updated versions of features that were previously pulled after serious security problems. According to RippleX executive Jazzi Cooper, xrpld 3.3.0 is scheduled for next week and will include Confidential MPT, Batch, Permission Delegation, Sponsored Fees and Reserves, and Dynamic MPT.
Reworked After Critical Bugs
Batch and Permission Delegation are the headline items in this release. Both amendments had already been voted on once, but were later put on hold after security researchers uncovered bugs that, in one case, could have enabled unauthorized transactions and, in another, could have redirected transaction fees to a different account or drained a balance.
Batch was designed to let as many as eight transactions from different accounts be processed as a single package, so the whole set would either go through or fail together. After researchers Pranamya Keshkamat and Cantina found a flaw in signature validation, validators were instructed to reject the change, and the feature was marked unsupported in an emergency release. No funds were lost because the change never made it to the main network.
Permission Delegation was intended to let one account grant limited authority to another account without giving up full signing control. The feature was flagged as vulnerable in September 2025 and then disabled. The network's documentation still lists both amendments as obsolete, even though they are now returning in modified form.
What the New Features Do
The other three proposals are new. Confidential MPT combines zero-knowledge proofs with elliptic curve encryption so balances and transfer amounts on Multi-Purpose Tokens can stay private, while auditors or regulators can still verify them when needed.
Sponsored Fees and Reserves is designed to let a bank or platform cover the XRP fees and reserve requirement for another account. That means users would not need to buy XRP first just to send a transaction. Dynamic MPT gives an issuer the option, when creating a token, to define which properties can still be changed later, so a full migration to a new token is not necessary if fees or metadata change.
The XRP Ledger runs on a Federated Byzantine Agreement consensus model, which allows transactions to settle quickly without mining or energy-intensive calculations. In practice, ledgers usually close within 3 to 5 seconds, which is important for tokenized assets, trading, and settlement. That lines up with Ripple's broader push into tokenized markets, where the company already secured a role in the UK in a plan for blockchain-based financial markets.
Why This Matters
For European crypto readers, this update shows how the XRP Ledger is continuing to expand its tokenized asset toolkit while governance and security remain under close scrutiny. Amendments only go live if at least 80 percent of trusted validators agree for two weeks in a row, so the network itself decides what gets activated. That makes the vote on xrpld 3.3.0 notable not just because of the new features, but also because previously rejected features are only now coming back after the vulnerabilities were fixed.
