XRP Ledger Unleashes Upgrade 2.5.0: Ethereum & Solana Scientists Faint in Shock! šŸ¤ÆšŸš€

Picture the scene, old bean: The XRP Ledger, that stoic fellow in the blockchain club, has donned a dazzling new waistcoat—version 2.5.0, no less—and virtually bolted down the digital promenade, leaving Ethereum and Solana gawking at its spry footwork.

The boffins in the engine room have finally delivered the long-whispered batch transactions. Imagine the delight! Now, instead of shuffling coins one by one like a dowager at the bingo, enterprises can simply fling tokens en masse with one mighty heave. Absolutely spiffing for those who need to pay their minions—or distribute tokens to their adoring public—without breaking a sweat or a monocle.

New XRP Ledger Software Update 2.5.0 is out! How will this prodigious update push the XRPL forward? Let’s see:

šŸ”¹ Batch transactions—finally, a feature to stop wrists aching.
šŸ”¹ Token escrow—for RLUSD, memes, or, heavens, even the treasurer’s lunch fund.
šŸ”¹ Permissioned DEX (P-Domain is somewhere in voting limbo) for the refined institutions among us…

— Vet (@Vet_X0) June 24, 2025

And there’s more! Enter token escrow: at last, a solution for safe and automated payouts, so one’s precious spondulicks aren’t left in the hands of fate—or, worse, an unreliable cousin overseeing a dApp. Ideal for those complicated vesting schedules that make even accountants weep.

A permissioned DEX and the terribly handy permission delegation options now let developers strut about the codebase like lords of the manor. All the while, version 2.5.0 tidies up a basket of pesky bugs—no more NFT trustline shenanigans or RPC hiccups—making the whole affair faster, tidier, and less prone to the digital equivalent of the hiccups after a long lunch.

Our chum Vet tipped his hat, declaring XRPL ā€œas swift as a greyhound and as dependable as Jeeves,ā€ and RippleX engineer Mayukha Vadari piped up in May with grand claims of XRPL going toe-to-toe with the likes of Ethereum and Solana. And by Jove, the results are in: network activity has boomed like Aunt Agatha’s temper—daily addresses multiplied by seven, whale wallets playing musical chairs, and the competition trundling along, looking decidedly peaky.

A 6% price bump to $2.17 saw the token shake off a Sunday sulk, while the bigwigs—CME Group, Uphold, Ondo Finance—peer suspiciously over the top of their newspapers, wondering what all the racket is about. XRPL remains a cheeky upstart, but if this is how it does upgrades, the old guard might want to check their shoes for tacks.

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2025-06-25 08:58