XRP Ledger
Payments-focused L1 and home of RLUSD
About
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is a payments-optimized Layer-1 maintained by the Ripple ecosystem, offering fast, low-cost settlement and built-in DEX features. It is the issuance home of Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin and is supported as a settlement network by Mastercard, positioning it for institutional cross-border and stablecoin payments.
Stablecoins
Key products
Chains
- Founded
- 2012
- Stage
- Public token (XRP)
- Funding
- XRPL Foundation; Ripple-backed
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