XRP Ledger activates batching of up to 8 transactions... TPS increase is separate

The XRP Ledger activated its BatchV1_1 amendment on the mainnet on October 9, 2026, enabling transactions to be bundled into batches of up to eight and executed under four distinct modes. The feature was recorded in a security report on XRPL.org, and official documentation confirms support for batches of two to eight transactions. Batching groups transaction flow but does not by itself raise the ledger's transactions per second, so throughput gains are separate from the upgrade. The activation matters because it adds atomic multi-transaction execution to XRPL, a capability relevant to exchanges, payment flows and smart-contract-style use cases. What to watch next is whether applications and validators adopt batching in practice and whether any accompanying throughput improvements follow.