Infrastructure
XRP Ledger
The open-source distributed ledger on which XRP is the native digital asset.
OVERVIEW
What XRP Ledger does
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is a public, decentralised layer-one network designed to record and settle transactions without a single institution controlling the ledger. Independent servers maintain copies of its state and validators participate in consensus. XRPL supports XRP, issued assets, a built-in decentralised exchange and other ledger functions. Ripple contributes to the ecosystem, but the network and the company are not the same thing.
EVIDENCE-LED CLASSIFICATION
Ripple, XRPL and XRP relationships
Ripple relationship
OtherThis describes the documented company relationship only.
XRPL relationship
Infrastructure providerThis describes how the entity builds on, uses or supports the ledger.
XRP relationship
Uses XRPThis is assessed separately from company and network adoption.
TIMELINE
Key milestones
Initial ledger history begins
The network's public ledger history dates to 2012.
PRIMARY EVIDENCE
Sources
- What is the XRP Ledger?Official documentation · Accessed 2026-09-15Open source
- XRPL source codeOfficial GitHub · Accessed 2026-09-15Open source
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