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WietseWind, a prominent developer and contributor in the XRP Ledger (XRPL) community, has noticed a downtime. In a post shared on X an exciting XRP News, WitetseWind stated, “XRPL is currently partially (?) down.” This implies that some network functions are up, but not the critical components. XRP News: Details of Event on XRP Ledger According to WietseWind’s explanation, Full History servers and Ripple’s cluster do not have a current ledger. – Advertisement – For clarity, Full History servers refer to specialized nodes that store XRPL’s entire transaction history. Significant issues have affected data access and network reliability, causing these servers to experience downtime. Additionally, with Ripple’s cluster experiencing interruption, validation cannot occur. This is because a “no current ledger” on the nodes implies no access to the latest state of the ledger. This access remains critical to transaction processing. However, WietseWind updated the community on the state of things a few hours later. In another post, he stated that most nodes have resumed functioning properly. – Advertisement – “Most nodes are back on a consensus ledger and closing ledgers again,” he wrote. This suggests that the nodes have successfully commenced validating and adding new transactions to the XRP ledger. Additionally, no data from past transactions is missing as the Full History nodes are synching back. The XRPL Labs developer noted that the network recovery appears to have occurred without fixing. Tech experts say this highlights the blockchain’s resilience. Despite the disruption, extensive manual intervention was not required to get back up and running. Stablecoin Testing and Speculation on Downtime This XRP Ledger downtime comes at a crucial time. As previously reported in an XRP news piece by The Coin Republic, Ripple Labs has resumed testing its stablecoin, RLUSD. The firm halted testing in late October but recommenced after almost two weeks of no…

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