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XRP Ledger · field guide

A shared ledger, explained one page at a time.

Plain-English guides to the XRP Ledger. Each fact is linked to the documentation or code it comes from.

Start: what is the XRP Ledger?

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Diagram of one XRP Ledger page: metadata, the newly applied transactions and the state data, marked as validated by consensus.
One validated ledger page. Everything on this site starts from it.

Every page was last checked against its sources on October 21, 2026. Fees and reserves are dated where they appear, because amendments can change them.

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Move it to your own walletReserve, destination tag and a safe first transfer.Keep it safeSeed rules and the scams to recognize.Destination tagsWhen one is needed and when it is not.The 1 XRP reserveWhy a new wallet needs XRP before it works, checked 2026-10-21.

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Basics

What the XRP Ledger is, how validators agree on each ledger, how amendments change the rules, and how XRP differs from the ledger it lives on.

Accounts

How an XRP Ledger account is created, what its address and keys are, why it holds a reserve, and what destination tags and regular keys do.

Payments

How a payment moves across the XRP Ledger: the transaction fee, partial payments, escrow, checks and payment channels, with the limits each one has.

Tokens

How issued tokens work on the XRP Ledger: trust lines, issuers and freezes, the built-in order-book exchange and automated market makers, and NFTs.

Developers

Getting started with the XRP Ledger as a builder: the public servers, the JSON-RPC and WebSocket APIs, client libraries, test networks and reading the ledger.

Linked to the sourceEvery figure points to the xrpl.org documentation or the XRPLF code it comes from.
No price talkHow the ledger works, nothing else.
Editorial policyHow sources are chosen, checked and corrected.

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