New Era for XRP Ledger? Tons of Features Around Corner

Exciting New Features Coming Soon to the XRP Ledger

The XRP Ledger is poised for a new era of innovation, as Mayukha Vadari, Senior Software Engineer at RippleX, teases a host of exciting new features that will soon grace the platform.

In a recent X post, Vadari highlighted the ongoing efforts to enhance the XRPL's functionality through various development and testing networks, allowing even non-developers to contribute meaningfully to the process.

Diving into the World of Devnets

Vadari defined three main categories of testing and development networks for the XRPL:

• Testnet (capital T) with activated amendments mirroring the XRPL mainnet.
• Devnet (capital D), where all amendments that are finished but either waiting to be released or voted in are activated.
• devnet (lowercase d) refers to networks that are spun up for early testing on major upcoming features (such as NFT and AMM). These networks usually get shut down whenever the code has been finished and released in a beta version of Rippled (and can therefore go live on Devnet instead).

The primary objective of all these Devnets is to provide a place for potential amendment users to experiment with new features and provide feedback, which may result in improvements before the amendments go live.

Highly Anticipated XRPL Features

Vadari outlined some "heavily anticipated" XRPL features currently being tested, including:

• The Batch Amendment for the XRP Ledger available on BatchNet, which includes the ability to batch transactions using the XLS-56d specification and supports all transaction types, with a limit of eight, as well as atomic swaps.
• The Account Permission Delegation, which is live on Devnet, along with MPTs (multipurpose tokens), credentials, permissioned domains, and dynamic NFTs, all of which have already been released for validator voting and are available for experimentation on Devnet.
• The Smart Escrows with WASM (WebAssembly), which are being tested on WASM Devnet.