XRP Price Bounces Off $1.40 as Validator Vote Nears Upgrade Trigger

XRP is trading at $1.40, outperforming the crypto market and defying bearish price predictions.

The network's next major upgrade, Batch V1.1, is sitting one validator vote away from a two-week countdown to activation.

This setup has been largely ignored in a red-candle news cycle, but it shouldn't be.

XRP Ledger requires 80% support for any protocol change, and the current backing from 27 of 35 trusted validators, or 77%, is just shy of that threshold.

If activated, the upgrade will let users bundle up to eight linked transactions into a single atomic operation, making complex payments smoother and more reliable.