What is XRPL?

Updated 21 Aug 2026

What does XRPL stand for?

XRPL stands for XRP Ledger. People search “what is XRPL” because the acronym shows up in wallets, explorers, and NFT apps, while headlines still say “XRP.” Same family of names, three different things.

• XRPL / XRP Ledger — the network: accounts, transactions, a built-in DEX, issued tokens, and NFTokens.
• XRP — the native asset. You pay tiny fees in XRP and lock a reserve so your account can exist.
• Ripple — a company that builds products around XRP and XRPL. It does not own your XRPL account, your NFT, or Pixelverse.

If you mint a Pixelverse NFT, that object lives on XRPL. You may also hold XRP in the same XRPL wallet.

How XRPL works

Independent validators agree on the next ledger version every few seconds. There is no Ethereum-style mempool auction for a simple mint. You sign. The ledger closes. We publish that interval as XRPL Pulse — measurements from our own node, not a slogan.

Fees are a fraction of a drop of XRP by design. That is the practical magic: you can try a trustline, a DEX offer, or an NFT because curiosity is cheap. Account creation still needs a small XRP reserve so spam accounts cannot flood the ledger for free.

To use XRPL you need:

1. A self-custody wallet — Xaman wallet (formerly Xumm) on mobile, or Crossmark in the browser. See the XRPL wallet guide.
2. Enough XRP to meet the reserve and pay fees.
3. For issued tokens such as PIXELVERSE, an XRPL trustline.

Why XRPL feels different

If you came from chains where a mint costs more than the art, XRPL is the part of crypto that still feels like the future. The network gets out of the way. You keep the keys. The same account can send value, trade on a native DEX, and hold an NFT — without a new wallet per app.

XRPL is not “XRP the ticker.” The ticker is how people find the door. The ledger is what you actually use.

What you can do on XRPL

• Send XRP. Exchanges often ask for a destination tag — that tag is for their deposit, not for a normal r-address in Xaman.
• Hold issued tokens and trade them on the XRPL DEX (order books on the ledger, plus AMMs).
• Mint and trade XRPL NFTs (NFToken objects) without a gas war.
• Look up any account or transaction in an XRPL explorer such as XRPSCAN or Bithomp.

How to start using XRPL

Install Xaman, create or import an account, and fund the reserve. Then open Pixelverse, sign in, and mint. The wallet is the login — Pixelverse never asks for a seed. If you prefer the browser, Crossmark signs the same kind of payload.

That first NFToken is not the whole map. It is a reason to watch a ledger close, to see your r-address own something, and to decide whether XRPL is a network you want to stay on. If you would rather script than click, XRPL is unusually clean in Python — start with xrpl-py.

Where Pixelverse fits

Pixelverse is an XRPL app: Xaman or Crossmark login, custom NFTs, and holder utilities such as a public rippled endpoint. We sit on the same public ledger everyone else uses. Start from the homepage after this page, or go straight to minting.