XRPL developer Denis Angell launched a live dashboard this week that scores each change to the XRP Ledger based on the amount of functionality actually exercised on the devnet before reaching mainnet.
The tool transforms change readiness, previously a matter of confidence in the process, into a public scorecard that shows exactly which transaction types, fields, and result codes were never touched by an actual transaction.
What the dashboard actually tracks
Angell built the tool, hosted at amendments-staging.xrpl.foundation, to read the full specification surface of each amendment directly from the node rather than maintaining it by hand. This includes each transaction type, optional field, indicator, result code, and accounting entry introduced by the amendment.
The dashboard then monitors Devnet activity and checks whether a committed transaction has already executed, with green cells relating to the transaction that performed it first and red cells marking what has not yet occurred.
The developer explain the reasoning behind the project directly, saying:
“Every new XRPL feature is delivered as an amendment. Validators vote on it, and once active, it’s part of the protocol for good. This deserves real proof that the feature has been used end-to-end on Devnet, not just tested in isolation.”
As of this week, the dashboard is monitoring 16 amendments live on Devnet, and 13 of them still have an untested surface.
The biggest gaps are in the most recent changes: Sponsor never exercised 65 of its 107 possible controls, XChainBridge is missing 30 out of 40, and MPTokensV1 is short 27 out of 102.
This week’s analysis also revealed 59 findings across the entire set: two specification bugs, 23 documentation gaps, and 34 testing gaps.
An amendment, XLS-75 Authorization Delegation, which allows one account to transfer narrow powers to another key, such as freezing trust lines and nothing else, closed remaining gaps in testing this week.
According to Angell, the team added logic mapping each delegated transaction to the specific permission behind it, then exercised each remaining cell on Devnet, bringing all 122 controls over its 12 granular permissions to full coverage.
He described this effort as crowdsourced, encouraging XRPL builders to “fetch the red blood cells” and execute missing transactions themselves, since the dashboard detects new activity within seconds.
Amendment tests come as adoption lags
The push for more rigorous pre-activation testing follows a difficult upgrade cycle. As CryptoPotato reported in July, Ripple’s v3.2.0 update, which renamed the core server software from rippled to xrpld and reduced node memory usage by 30-40%, was not adopted by more than half of XRPL nodes weeks after its release, even though 89% of all trusted validators on the network had moved it.
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