Nik Bougalis Submits XRP Ledger Core-Code Modernization
Pull request No. 8300 targets low-level utilities used in hashing, account IDs, serialization and protocol components. The change remains open and has not been merged or deployed.
Nik Bougalis submitted a proposed modernization of low-level XRP Ledger code that could affect hashing, account IDs, serialization, parsing and other protocol components, but the changes have not yet been merged or deployed.
Bougalis opened pull request No. 8300 in the XRP Ledger Foundation’s rippled repository on Sept. 25. The pull request, titled “Im back baby,” contains eight commits and targets the repository’s develop branch.
The central change redesigns BaseUInt, a low-level utility used across the codebase. The proposal would use 64-bit limbs when the requested width is divisible by 64, replacing the 32-bit limbs previously used in those cases.
The pull request also removes runtime raw-pointer and uint64_t constructors. It replaces them with fixed-size byte inputs, compile-time validation and a checked fromRaw() path.
“BaseUInt now uses 64-bit limbs when possible,” Bougalis wrote in the pull request description.
The proposed modernization extends beyond BaseUInt. It updates counting, caching, spinlock, slab-allocation and parsing code, along with tests covering ledger, serialization, RPC and protocol components. The affected utilities support hashes, account IDs, ledger keys, protocol identifiers, RPC parsing and serialization.
The work is intended to improve existing functionality rather than add a new user-facing feature. Because the pull request remains open, its proposed code is not yet part of a deployed XRP Ledger protocol release.
An automated review listed five open findings. The issues include an unchecked raw-pointer constructor, a possible data race involving an optimistic cache, API compatibility concerns and the shape of the get_counts response.
The contribution establishes that Bougalis submitted code to the public XRP Ledger repository.
