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Ripple Hits New UNL Decentralization Milestone, Here Are The Participants
Although the XRP Ledger (XRP) is an open-source, public, and decentralized layer 1 blockchain run by a global community of developers, there has been a history of criticism for perceived centralization; the most high-profile case being the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accusing Ripple Labs of issuing an unregistered security.
Critics cite the original distribution of XRP to Ripple on the one hand and the functionality of the XRP ledger on the other. Back in May 2017, Ripple anunciat una estratègia per augmentar la descentralització i garantir que cap entitat no tingui control operatiu sobre el Ledger XRP.
En aquell moment, l'empresa va passar a utilitzar manifests del validador, va millorar la seguretat del validador i va publicar una llista de nodes únics (UNL) recomanada mitjançant la nova infraestructura UNL dinàmica. A més, la companyia va anunciar que s'afegiran validadors independents als recomanats UNL.
“During that time, for every two independent validators that are added in the recommended UNL, one Ripple-operated validator will be removed,” the company announced back in February 2018m and went on to say; “The end state will be a network with a varied set of validators, operated by multiple entities from different locations, all sharing one common goal: the long term health and stability of the XRP Ledger.
XRPL assoleix una fita important de descentralització
El Ledger XRP ha assolit recentment aquesta fita de descentralització massiva. La Fundació XRP Ledger alliberat its latest UNL recommendation yesterday. According to it, Aesthetes, an NFT marketplace for physical and digital art, has been added to the UNL list published by the XRP Ledger Foundation while removing a Ripple node.
The XRP Ledger node on the dUNL @rippleitinNZ, wrote via Twitter, “Ripple is now down to 1 validator on published UNL’s out of 34 (2.9%) and no single entity has more than 1 validator on the UNL.”
Welcome to @aesthetes_art a la llista UNL publicada de l'XRPLF i altres.@Ripple are now down to 1 validator on published UNL's out of 34 (2.9%) and no single entity has more than 1 validator on the UNL.
Diversos i descentralitzats #XRPL https://t.co/ZuncX6bV95
- rippleitin.nz (@rippleitinNZ) Gener 25, 2023
A més de la Ripple validator, the University of Korea validator was also removed from the list. According to the report, its operator was “unavailable for weeks” and occupied a slot for a negative unique-node list, which includes validators temporarily offline during crashes or maintenance updates.
"Som conscients que el nombre de validadors a la nostra UNL publicada ha baixat marginalment de 35 a 34 amb aquests canvis. Estem segurs que augmentarem la mida de la llista en la nostra propera actualització", va afegir la XRP Ledger Foundation.
What Role Does Ripple Play Anyway?
Al Ledger XRP, tots els nodes asseguren que les transaccions compleixen els requisits del protocol i acorden una ordre que impedeix la doble despesa. Els UNL són les llistes de validadors.
Currently, there are three publishers: Ripple, the XRP Ledger Foundation, and Coil known for publishing recommended standard lists of high-quality validators. However, each server operator can choose their own UNL, with Ripple’s list being the default at rippled, the server software that powers the XRP Ledger.
Encara que Ripple recommends its list, it does not then create a centralized system because it is based on an opt-in. If the company ceases operations or acts maliciously, participants can change their UNLs and use a list from another issuer.
D'acord amb Escaneig XRP, l'UNL per defecte consisteix actualment en només un node de l'empresa demandada per la SEC. La resta són intercanvis, com Bitso i Bitrue, universitats com la Universitat Global de Londres (Regne Unit), la Universitat de Nicòsia (Xipre), la Universitat de Waterloo (Canadà), entitats de l'ecosistema XRP com Gatehub, Xarxa Flare, XRP Scan, Towo Labs, Bithomp i altres, inclosa AT TOKYO (una empresa líder dins la indústria del centre de dades, Flagship Solutions Group i Brex.
En el moment de la premsa, el preu de XRP era de 0.4095 dòlars.
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