This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Shawn Xie
XRPL has always been known for being fast, reliable, and cheap to use. The proposed batch transactions feature will make it even easier for developers to build apps that can generate revenue directly onchain.
This long sought after amendment from the broader community, makes it much easier to offer paid features, automate flows, and build apps that generate revenue. It’s a big step forward for anyone building on XRPL and a sign that the ecosystem is evolving and getting ready to support the next wave of serious financial apps. With the batch transactions amendment, developers can now bundle multiple actions into a single onchain transaction.
That’s the goal of XLS-56d: Batch Transactions, created by Denis Angell, a powerful new feature now proposed as an amendment on the XRP Ledger.
Atomic Execution Made Simple
Batch Transactions let you bundle up to eight individual transactions into one atomic package. This means they can be submitted together and executed according to your chosen logic. This ensures more predictable and reliable results. You decide whether every transaction must succeed, only one, or some combination. It’s a significant leap in programmability, without needing smart contracts.
Think of it as putting multiple steps of a process into a sealed container: either the whole thing goes through exactly how you planned, or none of it does.
Why This Matters for XRPL Developers
Batch transactions remove a major blocker for developers: the need to send multiple transactions in a specific order and hope everything goes smoothly. Before, if one step failed, the whole flow could break, hurting the user experience and making it harder to build reliable, revenue-generating apps.
Now, you can group multiple actions into a single, atomic transaction that makes your app logic cleaner, safer, and easier to monetize. Here’s what this unlocks:
- Safer UX: No partial mints, broken offers, or misfired transfers.
- Cleaner code: Group transactions logically and sign them once.
- New design patterns: Enable conditional actions, fallback logic, and multi-party coordination natively on XRPL.
- New Monetization paths: Offer premium features, usage-based billing, or transaction-based services
Whether you’re building a RWA Tokenization service, Payment app or DeFi platform or automated treasury system, this opens up new possibilities.
Under the Hood: Batch Modes and Transaction Anatomy
A batch consists of an outer transaction (the container) and multiple inner transactions (the steps). You can include up to 8 inner transactions per batch, and each must be explicitly flagged as such.
Crucially, each batch must declare a batch mode and determine how the inner transactions are processed:
- ALLORNOTHING: Every transaction must succeed, or none are applied.
- ONLYONE: The first transaction that succeeds is applied; the rest are ignored.
- UNTILFAILURE: Transactions are applied in order until one fails.
- INDEPENDENT: All transactions are processed regardless of individual success.
All inner transactions must be unsigned and have zero fees. The outer transaction carries the signatures and total fee, calculated as:
2 x b a s e f e e + s u m o f i n n e r f e e s + b a s e f e e p e r e x t r a s i g n a t u r e
This design ensures deterministic behavior, secure coordination between accounts, and compatibility with XRPL’s existing multi-sign infrastructure. Each inner transaction is stored on-ledger with its own metadata, making it easy for existing tools and systems to track outcomes.
Utilizing Batch Transactions to Build and Monetize Today
Batch Transactions enable immediate utility across many sectors. A few real-world examples:
- Platform Fees: Bake platform fees into user transactions for simpler UX
- DEX Swaps: Submit multiple offers with varying slippage levels—whichever one succeeds first wins
- Trustless Multi-Account Swaps: Alice and Bob can atomically trade XRP and USD between their accounts without trusting each other or relying on a third-party escrow
- Fallback Withdrawals: Try withdrawing from Account A, and if that fails, fallback to Account B with no manual resubmissions needed
- NFT Mint + Offer: Mint and list an NFT in one atomic step. If the offer creation fails, the mint is rolled back too
Developers can already start experimenting with test cases like these on devnets and prepare for what’s possible post-activation.
A Step Toward Smarter, More Scalable and Monetizable Applications
This amendment doesn’t just offer convenience – it unlocks a new layer of flexibility and power for developers on XRPL.
By enabling complex, multi-transaction logic within a single submission, Batch Transactions helps build advanced, revenue-generating workflows that were previously awkward, error-prone, or outright impossible. Batch is a foundational feature that improves how decentralized systems behave.
And while it opens up these new possibilities, the amendment stays true to what XRPL does best: fast, low-cost, and reliable performance. Inner transactions are recorded individually onchain, maintaining clarity and traceability. Fee escalation and signature verification remain efficient and secure.
The result? A smarter, more scalable XRPL that is ready to support serious builders who want to ship polished products and generate real value onchain.
How to Support the Amendment
The Batch Transactions feature is currently live as a proposed amendment. That means it’s undergoing validator voting and needs broad consensus to activate on mainnet.
If you’re running a validator or are part of a network participant group:
- Enable voting for the Batch amendment.
- Stay up to date on vote status via XRPL amendment registry
- Join discussions in the XRPL Discord or GitHub to collaborate with others building on Batch.
Batch Transactions are more than just a technical upgrade, they’re a shift in what developers can imagine and execute on the XRP Ledger. If you’ve been waiting for native atomicity and multi-step logic, your moment is here.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Shawn Xie