XRPL testnet and devnet set for November 25 reset

What happened

The XRP Ledger's Testnet and Devnet are scheduled to be reset on Nov. 25, 2026, between 5 and 6 p.m. Pacific time, according to reports from U.Today and CryptoPotato. The XRP Ledger Operations account announced the plan on Nov. 10, telling developers that the test environments would be wiped.

The reset will remove all on-chain state. That includes accounts, balances, tokens, transactions, account settings, offers, automated market makers, escrows and other ledger data. Developers will need to fund new test accounts through the faucet and rebuild their setups after the operation.

The change is limited to Testnet and Devnet. Mainnet, Xahau and the Hooks Testnet will keep running as usual, the reports said. Important URLs, network IDs and validator settings for the two test networks will remain the same.

Why it matters

Testnet and Devnet give developers a place to try features and integrations without putting real funds at risk. A full wipe means any project that depends on persistent test accounts or contract-like setups must recreate them. The reports noted that recreated AMMs will generally have different account addresses, even if some other settings are restored.

The XRPL team advised developers not to reuse the same addresses or key pairs on Mainnet and any test network. Operators running an xrpld server connected to Testnet or Devnet should delete their database data and restart the server after the reset. Testnet's amendment statuses will be restored to match Mainnet's.

What the data shows

The reset window is Nov. 25, 2026, from 5 to 6 p.m. Pacific time. The previous Devnet reset was on March 3, 2026. U.Today also reported that the XRP Ledger Education Month offers up to $40,000 in awards for educators and content creators.

Since XRPL 3.3.0, memory consumption on nodes has fallen by as much as 23%, according to U.Today. The report said memory growth was observed in late summer 2025 and a fix shipped in xrpld 3.3.0.

Background

The reset is tied to problems with Testnet's infrastructure. According to an accompanying blog post cited by CryptoPotato, Testnet depended on a single full history server that went down and could not be recovered without resetting the environment. The team upgraded storage capacity to reduce the chance of a repeat, though some data retention limits will remain.

The last Devnet reset occurred on March 3, 2026. U.Today reported that it was required because of the Batch amendment, which needed more development at the time and could have left validators amendment-blocked. The upcoming operation follows other work on the network, including an education initiative and node performance changes.

What to watch

CryptoPotato reported that Ripple's senior director of engineering, Ayo Akinyele, has described a roadmap that includes confidential transfers, transaction batching and infrastructure for AI agents. Those efforts could add more complex testing requirements for developers. Permission delegation also received security revisions, and its V1.1 implementation recently completed testing after vulnerabilities were found in an earlier version.

Developers should watch for the reset's completion and confirm that their servers and test setups are working again. The reports said some data retention limits will remain even after the storage upgrade, so future resets may still be needed.

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