XRPL to soon add feature for delegating on-chain tasks from cold wallets

Vet, a community director and validator for the XRP Ledger (XRPL) Foundation, announced that a permission delegation feature will be introduced soon. This function will allow users to delegate certain on-chain tasks to another account while keeping their primary account keys secured in a cold wallet. According to U.Today, Vet stated that the feature was developed to address treasury management needs. Permission delegation grants a secondary account the authority to send transactions on behalf of a user's primary account, serving as an alternative or supplement to multi-signature setups for implementing security structures like role-based access control. The feature was previously included in XRPL v2.6.1 but was disabled in September 2025 after a bug was discovered that could drain a user's XRP balance by charging transaction fees to other accounts. It was never deployed on the mainnet.