About Ripples XRPL
Ripples XRPL is a plain-English guide to the XRP Ledger (XRPL): the open, decentralized ledger whose software is developed in the open. It is written for people who want to understand the ledger before they use it, and for developers who want to read it or send it a transaction.
We explain how things work. We do not give prices, forecasts or advice about buying, and we do not promote any token, exchange or service.
What it covers
- 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.
Who writes it
Guides are researched and written by the Ripples XRPL editors. Each one lists its sources, numbered, at the bottom, and shows the date it was last checked against them. There is no single named author because the work is a process, not a personality: a claim is in a guide only if a source line backs it.
Editorial independence
Nobody outside the editors controls what these pages say. The site carries no advertising, no affiliate links and no sponsored guides, and no company or foundation that builds or sells XRP Ledger products, Ripple and the XRP Ledger Foundation included, pays for, edits or signs off on a page. Where a guide mentions a wallet, an exchange or a service, it is because a reader needs to know it exists, and never because it paid to be there.
How we work
A fact enters a guide only when we can point to the sentence in the documentation or code that says it. The XRP Ledger documentation at xrpl.org, the rippled source code and the XRPL Foundation's published standards come first. A reserve, a fee or a limit is quoted with the date we read it, because amendments change these numbers. Read the editorial policy, or tell us about a mistake through the contact page.
Checked, updated and corrected
Every guide shows the date it was published and the date its sources were checked; an Updated date appears beside them once a page has been changed after publication. When an amendment, a server release or a corrected figure changes what a page claims, we re-read the source, edit the page and move its dates. Errors are logged, with what was wrong and what it says now, on the corrections page.
Contact
Write to editors@ripplesxrpl.com with a page address and, if you can, the documentation or code that shows the right fact. We cannot recover funds or give wallet support, and you should never send a seed or a secret key to anyone.