XRP Ledger

Protocolo P2P

A decentralized public ledger using its own Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus algorithm (distinct from both PoW and PoS — validators vote on transaction ordering via the XRP Ledger Consensus Protocol), operational since 2012. Naming precision: this entity is the XRP Ledger (the protocol/network), not "Ripple" — Ripple is a company that "acts as a steward for the technology" (confirmed directly from the rippled repo's own README) but does not own or unilaterally control the ledger; a team of developers "at Ripple & other organizations" maintain the reference software.

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Licencia ISC
Estado de Desarrollo 🟢 Activo
Propietario No single owner — rippled (the reference server software) is developed by "a team of full-time developers at Ripple & other organizations."
Órgano de Gobierno Validator-based amendment voting (on-chain governance mechanism where a supermajority of trusted validators must approve protocol changes) — but Ripple the company remains highly influential as the largest single contributor to core development and a major validator-list curator.
País N/A (Ripple, the primary corporate steward, is US-based; the ledger itself has no jurisdiction)
Año de Inicio 2012
Stack C++ (rippled, the reference server implementation).
Financiamiento Ripple (the company) funds the majority of core rippled development; other organizations also contribute.
Última Investigación 24 ago 2026

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Protocolo P2P Atributos

Orígenes Purpose-built payments/settlement ledger, operational since 2012, using its own consensus algorithm from the outset (not PoW/PoS-derived).
Base de Datos N/A conventional DB; JSON-RPC/WebSocket APIs for node queries.
Lenguaje de Consulta JSON-RPC/WebSocket.
Formatos de Datos Binary canonical serialization format specific to XRPL.
Edición Colaborativa en Vivo N/A
Edición de Texto Enriquecido N/A
Soporte Móvil Via third-party wallets (Xumm/Xaman, etc.).
Soporte Web N/A directly; wallet ecosystem provides access.
Aplicaciones Nativas rippled ships as a binary.
Términos Free, open-source; tiny fixed transaction fees (fractions of a cent) which are burned (destroyed) rather than paid to validators — distinctive versus every other entity in this batch.
Fondos Ripple (the company) holds a large, publicly-disclosed XRP reserve and funds the majority of rippled development — a material, disclosed dependency worth naming directly.
Basado En Novel consensus design from inception; not forked from a prior chain.
Arquitectura P2P Validator network using the XRP Ledger Consensus Protocol — validators exchange proposed transaction sets and converge via iterative rounds requiring an 80% supermajority, not mining or staking.
Red de Superposición Global; the validator set is permissionless to join, though a "Unique Node List" (UNL) of trusted validators (influenced by Ripple's recommended list) is what most participants actually rely on for practical trust.
Direccionamiento por Contenido No.
Local-First N/A
Cifrado de Extremo a Extremo (E2EE) N/A
Biblioteca de CRDTs N/A
Tolerancia a Fallos Bizantinos Yes — the XRP Ledger Consensus Protocol, a novel BFT design distinct from PoW/PoS, providing ~3-5 second finality.
Firma secp256k1 or Ed25519 (both supported).
Permisos Permissionless for transacting; the practical validator trust set (UNL) is influentially, though not exclusively, shaped by Ripple's recommendations.
Compatibilidad con la Web Semántica No.
Contrato Inteligente Limited — no general-purpose smart-contract VM historically; "Hooks" (lightweight, WASM-based transaction logic) is a more recent, narrower addition rather than a full programmability layer.
Posición en la Pila del Protocolo Base-layer settlement (Layer 1), purpose-built for payments/asset issuance rather than general programmability.
Incorporación de Activos/Valor Native (XRP) plus a built-in issued-currency/asset-exchange layer (the XRPL's native DEX) — assets other than XRP are a first-class ledger feature, not a smart-contract add-on.
Madurez del Protocolo / Estandarización Mature — "10+ years of error-free, uninterrupted performance" per xrpl.org's own claim — no formal external standards body, but one of the longest continuously-operating non-PoW/PoS ledgers.