The XRP Ledger (XRPL) experienced a brief downtime on February 5, 2025, caused by issues in the network's consensus process, which resulted in validators failing to publish validations. This incident led to the ledgers drifting apart. Although the consensus mechanism was still operating, the lack of published validations temporarily halted transactions. Ripple's CTO, David Schwarz, noted that the issue appeared to resolve itself over time, but manual intervention was also taken by at least one validator operator to reset the consensus to a prior state. It was highlighted that there was a possible 'silent network' failure risk when all validators believe something is wrong and refuse to validate any ledgers. Thankfully, no assets were at risk during this downtime, with the price of XRP remaining largely stable alongside broader market movements in Bitcoin and altcoins.

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