XRP Ledger upgrade set for October 23: What it means for the XRP price

Published on 10/21/2026 at 13:27 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

The package has 29 validator votes, the approval threshold. XRP price is 1.2985 USD on October 16, 2026, down 0.18 percent.

Network changes and ETF flows

Validators backed the XRP Ledger patch ahead of October 23, 2026.
Weekly spot XRP ETFs recorded a 1.84 million USD outflow.
The XRP price stands at 1.2985 USD as of October 16, 2026, 0.18 percent below the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026.
The upgrade requires sustained validator support for activation.

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XRP (XRP) is set for a bug-fix upgrade around 09:34 UTC on October 23, 2026, after the package secured 29 validator votes. The XRP price is 1.2985 USD as of October 16, 2026, down 0.18 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026.

Twenty-nine validators back the patch

The XRP Ledger amendment called fixCleanup3_4_0 is scheduled to take effect around 09:34 UTC on October 23, 2026. The package had exactly 29 votes on October 19, the minimum required under the network's approval process, according to CoinDesk. Validators are independent servers that agree on which transactions count.

The amendment must retain support from more than 80 percent of the 35 validators trusted by default for two consecutive weeks, according to CoinDesk. The source reported that one validator withdrawing support could restart the countdown before October 23, 2026. The patch addresses technical issues in existing XRP Ledger functions, while a separate lending feature had not reached the same approval level.

ETF outflow ends a 13-week streak

U.S. spot XRP ETFs recorded a combined 1.84 million USD net outflow for the week ended October 16, 2026, ending 13 consecutive weeks of inflows, according to Yahoo Finance. Spot ETFs hold the underlying cryptocurrency and trade through brokerage accounts.

The same report said the products held 1.47 billion USD in net assets on October 16, 2026, making the weekly outflow equal to 0.1 percent of that asset base, according to Yahoo Finance. The report also said cumulative net inflows since launch reached 1.80 billion USD on that date. These figures describe fund flows and do not identify why investors redeemed positions.

XRP price data on October 16, 2026

According to Investing.com, XRP trades at 1.2985 USD as of October 16, 2026, down 0.18 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026. The daily high is 1.3076 USD and the daily low (UTC day) is 1.2869 USD. Market capitalization is 82.03 billion USD, ranking XRP fifth, while 24-hour volume is 1.42 billion USD. Circulating supply is 63.13 billion XRP.