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XRP Ledger Suffers Hour-Long Outage Before Recovery: Ripple CTO Says 'Silent Network' Failure Didn't Impact User Funds

The XRP Ledger (XRPL), the blockchain network that powers XRP (CRYPTO: XRP), experienced an unprecedented hour-long interruption in block production on Tuesday before spontaneously recovering, according to Ripple‘s Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz.

What Happened: “The network is now recovering. We don’t know exactly what caused the issue yet,” Schwartz posted on X. He suggested the disruption might have stemmed from a “silent network” failure mode, where validators stopped publishing validations while consensus mechanisms continued running.

The network is now recovering. We don't know exactly what caused the issue yet.

Super-preliminary observation: It looked like consensus was running but validations were not being published, causing the network to drift apart. Validator operators manually intervened to choose a…

— David "JoelKatz" Schwartz (@JoelKatz) February 4, 2025

The incident marks a notable disruption for the XRP ...

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