A protocol extension is close to activation on the XRP Ledger that will let accounts hand individual rights to other accounts without surrendering their own master key. The amendment is called PermissionDelegationV1_1 and carries the specification number XLS-75. Numerous trade outlets have named October 5, 2026 as the date in recent days, some of them to the minute at 11:18 UTC.
The ledger itself says something different. The majority on which the two-week period rests has only been recorded there since September 24, 2026 at 21:25 UTC. The amendment can therefore take effect no earlier than October 8, 2026 at around 21:25 UTC, a good three days later than announced. Cryptoticker.io compiled this analysis itself on October 1, 2026. It rests on the XRP Ledger's amendment data, verified at two mutually independent sources. All 113 amendments the network currently carries were checked, four of them with an ongoing or still open vote.
For you as a holder of XRP this is more than a calendar question. Around protocol updates, trading venues and custodians regularly suspend deposits and withdrawals for a short period, and anyone with the wrong day...
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