Ripple’s XRP Ledger (XRPL) experienced a temporary network outage on February 4, 2025, causing a 64-minute block production disruption. The incident, which occurred at block height 93,927,174, led Ripple CTO David Schwartz to confirm that while consensus appeared to be working, validations were not being published, causing the network to split.
To address the issue, validator operators manually intervened to select a reliable starting point from the last fully validated ledger point, allowing the network to resume operations. Schwartz explained that this manual action may have helped realign the network. However, it is unclear whether the network was able to recover on its own or whether the intervention directly resolved the issue.
