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

Published on 10/22/2026 at 13:04 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Spot XRP ETFs lost 1.84 million USD for the week ended October 16. The XRP price is 1.35 USD on October 16, 2026, up 3.35 percent.

ETF flows and network votes

Validators backed the cleanup amendment with 30 votes on October 9, 2026, ahead of its projected activation.
Spot XRP ETFs recorded 1.84 million USD in net outflows for the week ended October 16, 2026.
The XRP price stands at 1.35 USD as of October 16, 2026, 3.35 percent above the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026.
The proposed lending amendments had 19 supporting validators against a required 29 in the October 20, 2026, snapshot.

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XRP (XRP) is approaching a projected XRP Ledger cleanup upgrade on October 23, 2026, with validator support above the required threshold. The XRP price stands at 1.35 USD as of October 16, 2026, up 3.35 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026, according to Investing.com.

Thirty votes keep the October 23 upgrade on course

The amendment called fixCleanup3_4_0 is scheduled to complete its approval period at approximately 09:34 UTC on October 23, 2026, provided support remains above 80 percent. Coinpaper reported on October 21, 2026, that the amendment had retained the required supermajority while the latest October 20, 2026, voting snapshot showed 19 validators supporting each of the LendingProtocol amendments.

The cleanup package addresses software issues involving token permissions, automated market maker clawbacks, escrow transactions and lending-related infrastructure. An amendment is a network rule change approved through validator voting. Coinpaper said the package had 30 votes from 36 trusted validators and had first reached the supermajority on October 9, 2026. The lending system remains a separate proposal and would not activate with the cleanup package.

ETF outflows ended a 13-week positive run

U.S. spot XRP exchange-traded funds recorded 1.84 million USD in net outflows for the week ended October 16, 2026, according to SoSoValue data reported by CryptoSlate on October 19, 2026. The result ended 13 consecutive weeks of net inflows, after the funds attracted 11.31 million USD in the previous week.

CryptoSlate reported that the funds held 1.47 billion USD in net assets on October 16, 2026. The weekly redemption therefore represented a small portion of the reported asset base, while the flow data marked a change from the prior 13-week sequence.

XRP trades at 1.35 USD with a 3.35 percent gain

The XRP price is 1.35 USD as of October 16, 2026, up 3.35 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026, according to Investing.com. The daily high is 1.37 USD and the daily low for the UTC day is 1.33 USD. Market capitalization is 85.99 billion USD, ranking XRP fifth, while 24-hour volume is 1.99 billion USD. Circulating supply is 63.13 billion XRP.