Ripple seeks withdrawal of XRPL bridge amendment

Ripple has recommended withdrawing the XRP Ledger’s pending XChainBridge amendment after concluding that its primary use case is already served by Axelar and broader developer demand has not emerged. Summary Ripple recommends withdrawing XChainBridge after Axelar replaced its intended XRP Ledger EVM Sidechain role entirely. The pending amendment would add native asset bridges using independent witness servers between connected ledgers. Removing XChainBridge could eliminate more than 10,000 lines from the XRPL server codebase, Ripple estimates. Ripple controls one validator vote and cannot withdraw or activate the amendment unilaterally today alone. Developers with active XLS-38 projects can present evidence before the community completes withdrawal procedures formally. Mayukha Vadari, a senior software engineer at RippleX, announced the recommendation on Aug. 27. XChainBridge, also known as XLS-38, remains in the XRPL validator voting process and has not activated on the mainnet. Ripple estimated that withdrawing the proposal would allow developers to remove more than 10,000 lines of code from xrpld, the server software that powers the network. No code has been removed yet, and Rip...