Odaily News Ripple’s XRP Ledger is back up and running after a network outage prevented validation from being published for more than an hour, Ripple CTO David Schwartz has confirmed.
XRPL’s explorer page shows that network activity froze for 64 minutes at block 93,927,174 before the blockchain was restarted at 10:58 a.m. UTC on Feb. 4.
“It looks like consensus was running, but validation was not being published, causing the network to be disrupted,” Schwartz said in a Feb. 4 X post. He added that validator operators had to manually intervene to “select a reasonable starting point” to build enough consensus to pull the network to a coordinated ledger flow. Schwartz said his observations were preliminary and Ripple was still investigating the root cause.
Schwartz noted that only a very small number of unique node list validators were forced to make changes to restart the network, “so it’s possible that the network will recover spontaneously.”
In addition, RippleX's X-account noted that customer funds remained safe throughout the incident. XRPSCAN data shows that approximately 2 million transactions are executed by 30,000 to 60,000 unique senders every day. Therefore, approximately 88,000 transactions may have been delayed due to the network suspension.