Validators and Network Governance

What this category covers

XRPL governance is distributed across deterministic software rules, server operators, validator choices, amendment voting, and the consensus process. These topics clarify what validators can do, what they cannot do, and how protocol changes become active.

After working through this collection, you should be able to:

• Separate transaction relay, validation, consensus, and protocol governance roles.
• Explain Unique Node Lists and why validator-list overlap matters.
• Follow an amendment from software release through voting, majority, and activation.