{"id":11402,"date":"2025-02-05T06:31:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T06:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2025-02-05T06:31:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T06:31:41","slug":"xrp-ledger-suffers-hour-long-outage-before-recovery-ripple-cto-says-silent-network-failure-didnt-impact-user-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11402","title":{"rendered":"XRP Ledger Suffers Hour-Long Outage Before Recovery: Ripple CTO Says &#8216;Silent Network&#8217; Failure Didn&#8217;t Impact User Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>XRP Ledger\u00a0<\/strong>(XRPL), the blockchain network that powers\u00a0<strong>XRP\u00a0<\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>), experienced an unprecedented hour-long interruption in block production on Tuesday before spontaneously recovering, according to <strong>Ripple<\/strong>\u2018s Chief Technology Officer <strong>David Schwartz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: \u201cThe network is now recovering. We don\u2019t know exactly what caused the issue yet,\u201d Schwartz posted on X. He suggested the disruption might have stemmed from a \u201csilent network\u201d failure mode, where validators stopped publishing validations while consensus mechanisms continued running.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The network is now recovering. We don&#8217;t know exactly what caused the issue yet.<\/p>\n<p>Super-preliminary observation: It looked like consensus was running but validations were not being published, causing the network to drift apart. Validator operators manually intervened to choose a\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David &#8220;JoelKatz&#8221; Schwartz (@JoelKatz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoelKatz\/status\/1886914174565146852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The incident marks a notable disruption for the XRP &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/02\/43486359\/xrp-ledger-suffers-hour-long-outage-before-recovery-ripple-cto-says-silent-network-failure\" alt=\"XRP\" ledger suffers hour-long outage before recovery: ripple cto says network failure didn impact user funds>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0XRP Ledger\u00a0(XRPL), the blockchain network that powers\u00a0XRP\u00a0(CRYPTO: XRP), experienced an unprecedented hour-long interruption in block production on Tuesday before spontaneously recovering, according to Ripple\u2018s Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz. What Happened: \u201cThe network is now recovering. We don\u2019t know exactly what caused the issue yet,\u201d Schwartz posted on X. He suggested the disruption might have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-11402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}