XRPL Native Bridge Faces Shutdown as Ripple Eyes 10,000+ Lines of Dead Code

Ripple has asked the XRP Ledger community to retire XLS-38, its long-pending native cross-chain bridge amendment. RippleX engineer David Fuelling published the formal recommendation on August 27, 2026, citing low developer demand and the fact that Axelar already handles the primary use case. The XLS-38 was never activated on mainnet. Ripple says withdrawing it would