To prevent malicious actors from monopolizing the mechanism, the design incorporates an economic defense that scales fees upward as available reservation slots become occupied.
"This guarantees that you can execute your transaction ahead of any transaction that was formed after your transaction was disclosed," Schwartz said.
Server software would hold these prioritized actions until the exact moment key consensus data from the previous ledger is established, compressing the pre-execution visibility window available to external observers.
"You would use this approach any time you want to perform a transaction that you want to ensure cannot be sandwiched or front run," Schwartz said.
The proposed framework remains subject to community debate and has not been formalized as an active mainnet amendment.
On the XRP Ledger, any structural protocol adjustment requires a supermajority vote from network validators before deployment.
"If multiple validators did conspire, or a single validator attempted it, it would be very obvious to everyone exactly who was doing this," Schwartz said.
The executive noted that extracting meaningful value from sandwich attacks requires a rare combination of high and low liquidity, a state seldom observed on the network.
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He added that no real-world front-running operations have been confirmed on the native exchange beyond proof-of-concept tests.
