The XRPL is more decentralized today and the Aesthetes Validator enters in the XRPL UNL

Today the XRP Ledger has become more decentralised! The XRPL Foundation, a nonprofit support organization for XRPL and one of the three publishers of the unique node list, introduced important updates. At 1000 UTC on their website, they published the new UNL:

“Removal of one Ripple validator (nHUon2tpyJEHHYGmxqeGu37cvPYHzrMtUNQFVdCgGNvEkjmCpTqK), in line with our policy of one validator per entity. With this change, there are no entities with multiple validators on our published UNL.
Removal of the validator run by University of Korea (nHUT6Xa588zawXVdP2xyYXc87LQFm8uV38CxsVzq2RoQJP8LXpJF). This operator has been unresponsive for weeks and occupied a slot on the negative UNL. The negative UNL slots are reserved for maintainance/upgrades and emergencies.
We have added the validator xrpl.aesthetes.art (nHU3AenyRuJ4Yei4YHkh6frZg8y2RwXznkMAomUE1ptV5Spvqsih) – their validator has shown the traits of a good network participant“.

After this update, Ripple, the Fintech company based in SF, manages only one UNL Validator, letting the XRP Ledger to be more and more decentralized. It is a milestone. In fact, currently, no entities manage more UNL Validators.

Following the removal of the Ripple Validator, the Aesthetes Validator has been added in the XRPL having to the traits of a good network participant.

Aesthetes is an NFTs Marketplace, running on the XRPL, that aims to merge fine and blockchain and introducing the Phygital NFTs, i.e. NFTs based on Physical Artworks. The company has running the XRPL Validator since October 2021.