Ripple’s developer arm RippleX says a “Permitted Domains” amendment for the XRP Ledger is nearing launch, positioning the network to roll out institutional-friendly access controls that could support a permissioned version of the native XRPL exchange.
In a series of posts on X late Tuesday, RippleX introduced Authorized Domains as a layer that allows for “permitted flows” on the public blockchain, an approach aimed squarely at regulated firms that want to pay off-chains and trade without adopting a fully private infrastructure.
Ripple’s Next ‘Gamechanger’ For XPR Ledger
On X, RippleX said: “The Allowed Domains Amendment is nearing the threshold of implementation. Ripple supports this feature, and Allowed DEX will eventually enable it.
Under the XRPL governance process, amendments become effective after maintaining a maximum of 80% verification for a long period of time. According to xrpl.org, PermissionedDEX is currently open for voting and has reached 50.00% so far, while PermissionedDomains amendment stands at 76.47%.
RippleX describes this feature as “a game changer for XRPL because it brings institutional level controls to the public network, without sacrificing private chain transactions.”
The company further writes: “While the Permissioned Domains amendment is an enabling feature, it sets the stage for financial institutions to participate in permissioned flows on the fast, scalable, and robust blockchain network, XRPL. The Permissioned DEX will allow permissioned trading flows, and the upcoming lending protocol may use Permissioned Domains for regulated lending and borrowing.”
In the XRPL documentation, permissioned domains are defined as controlled environments that “do nothing by themselves,” but can be used by higher-level features, such as DEX-enabled operations and lending protocols, to limit and manage access to compliance-driven transactions. Allowed DEXs are the functional end: regulated entities that participate in the native order books of XRPL while enforcing who can interact with certain markets.
“Traditionally, any offering on the XRPL DEX can be matched by anyone. The permissioned DEX changes that,” Ripple wrote, describing permissioned trading as rules-based matching limited to permitted participants.
RippleX also points to things down the road, including an upcoming lending protocol that could use the same domain-based controls for lending and borrowing flows, suggesting that the design pattern is intended to go beyond exchanges to onchain financial startups.
This announcement drew immediate interest in the voices of the XRP community. Popular community member Krippenreiter highlighted “on-chain FX” as the topic of the request, while Anodos Finance CEO Panos Mekras replied that “all that’s left is to bring real assets and liquidity to flow.” Krippenreiter agreed, calling for “more stablecoins, RWAs, and more market creation.”
We talked about this on the show @panosmek. 💪
At Chain FX, here we go! 🥳 pic.twitter.com/jh0zoXWmQv
— Krippenreiter (@krippenreiter) January 13, 2026
At press time, XRP traded at $2.15.
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