Over the last several months, XRP Ledger (XRPL) has fundamentally shifted in how amendments move from concept to mainnet. Historically, amendment development was largely focused on functional correctness, performance testing, traditional security audits, bug bounties and independent validator testing as the last line of defense to catch security vulnerabilities.
As XRPL continues to grow in complexity and the value secured by the network increases, we recognized that the previous model was no longer sufficient. Advances in AI are also rapidly reducing the cost of vulnerability discovery, making it increasingly important to identify issues as early as possible in the development lifecycle. With that in mind, we set out to establish a stronger, repeatable, defense-in-depth model that makes it increasingly difficult for critical vulnerabilities, consensus risks, and feature interaction bugs to reach mainnet.
The result is a significantly higher bar for amendment activation that combines specification rigor, adversarial testing, multiple independent audits, attackathons with expert security researchers, AI-assisted security reviews and phased deployments.
The Lending Protocol (XLS-66) and Single Asset Vault (SAV) - XLS-65 are among the first major amendments to undergo this full review process, making them some of the most rigorously tested amendments in XRPL's history.
