XRP is trading sideways, with no price prediction deciding on what its next move is. The XRP Ledger Foundation’s version 3.1.3 release introduces fixes across NFTs, permissioned domains, vaults, and the lending protocol, and operators have been urged to upgrade nodes immediately. On May 8, the XRP Ledger Foundation announced on X that rippled v3.1.3 is available, a maintenance and bug-fix upgrade requiring no manual voting. The fixCleanup3_1_3 amendment bundles patches for non-fungible token logic, permissioned domain handling, vault mechanics, and the lending protocol. It’s a housekeeping release, technically. But tomorrow’s mainnet upgrade could finally send XRP above its flatline zone.
$XRP Ledger has a forced upgrade deadline on Tuesday and nodes that miss it go dark@JoelKatz, XRPL co-creator and @Ripple CTO, confirmed the rippled 3.1.3 amendment activates May 27. Nodes that don’t upgrade become amendment-blocked, losing the ability to validate the ledger,… pic.twitter.com/oj3EX7Xsit— BSCN (@BSCNews) May 24, 2026
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