XRP News: xrpld 3.2.1 Hotfix Patches Manifest Flood Draining XRPL Node Resources

In XRP news today, the XRP Ledger released xrpld 3.2.1 on July 31 after a validator manifest flood was detected hitting nodes that same day, with Ripple Director of Engineering Vijay Khanna issuing an urgent call on August 1–2 for all node operators to upgrade immediately.

The ledger continued closing normally throughout the incident, with no confirmed fund losses and no consensus failure, but unpatched nodes remain exposed to resource-exhaustion risk until operators complete the two-step upgrade process.This news dropped as XRP USD fell 1.5% from $1.10 to $1.06 over the past 24 hours, with daily trading volume of $791M.

This follows a worrying trend in which Ripple has crashed -4% over the past seven days. XRPL Node operators,Please upgrade to 3.2.1 asap. It has a hotfix that prevents the manifest flood attack.

https://t.co/MaB2UhMXwD— Vijay Khanna (@vjkhannaripple) August 1, 2026 XRP News: What the Manifest Flood Actually DidThe attack exploited a structural gap in how XRPL nodes handled validator manifests: before the patch, nodes would accept, cache, and rebroadcast an unlimited number of manifests tied to unknown validator keys with no ceiling on volume or storage.