According to U.Today, the XRP Ledger has reached a significant milestone, surpassing 87 million ledgers. This achievement is a testament to the high volume of activity and transactions that have occurred on the XRP Ledger since its inception. The current number of ledgers on XRPL stands at 87,034,967, with the total number of accounts exceeding five million, holding a total of 59,579,120,232 XRP. The XRP Ledger is expected to continue its growth and evolution, with plans for future improvements and upgrades.
In other news, Vitalik Buterin has revealed the next major phase in the evolution of the Ethereum (ETH) network, known as 'The Purge.' The central component of this evolution is EIP-6780, a key improvement included in the Dencun hard fork. This improvement aims to optimize the protocol by reducing the functionality of the SELFDESTRUCT opcode, thereby enhancing efficiency and strengthening security measures. This move is part of a broader initiative to alleviate Ethereum's technical burdens and declutter its infrastructure. The Purge involves eliminating redundant data, reducing resource loads, and strengthening security procedures to enhance Ethereum's efficiency and resilience.
Lastly, the Shiba Inu community and the developer team managed to burn more than 10 billion SHIB tokens in March, increasing the monthly SHIB burn rate by 2,330%. A total of 15,644,329,668 SHIB was sent to dead-end wallets, equivalent to $454,154 in fiat. The majority of these SHIB were removed from circulation by the SHIB developer team, using funds from Shibarium fees. Despite the significant number of destroyed SHIB, the burns have not affected the SHIB price; at the time of writing, SHIB is trading at $0.00002638, down by 6.79% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap.