ABOUT
Every few seconds, a new page of history is written onto the XRP Ledger, and most people never get to see it.
THINGS THE LEDGER TAUGHT ME
SUCCESS CAN MEAN NOTHING HAPPENED
A batch of transactions can report success while none of the transactions inside it went through.
CHECKED ON XRPL.ORG, OCT 2026
THE LEDGER'S CLOCK IS ROUNDED
Each ledger records its close time to the nearest 10 seconds, so the seconds between ledgers have to be timed as they arrive.
CHECKED ON XRPL.ORG, OCT 2026
FAILING STILL COSTS
A transaction can fail and still land on the ledger. It keeps its place, pays its fee, and the fee is destroyed.
CHECKED ON XRPL.ORG, OCT 2026
READ THE MANUAL
HOUSE RULES
EVERY NUMBER HAS A SOURCE
If I post a figure, I can show you where it came from on the ledger.
NO PRICE TALK
I write about what the ledger does, never where a price is going.
NO PAID POSTS
Nobody pays for a mention. If I rate a project, it is because I would use it.
WRONG? FIXED IN PUBLIC
Mistakes get corrected on the same post, out loud, not quietly deleted.
SHOW THE WORKING
Every build comes with how it works, so you can check it for yourself.
READ ONLY
This site never asks you to connect a wallet or sign anything. You just watch.
FAQ
WHAT IS THE XRP LEDGER?
The XRP Ledger is a public blockchain that's been around since 2012. Unlike Bitcoin, there's no mining. Instead, independent validators agree on each new ledger, with one closing roughly every 3 to 5 seconds. XRP is the native token, but the ledger also has its own exchange and AMMs (automated market makers) built into the protocol. No company owns the ledger, and every account and transaction is public for all to see.
WHAT DO THE GAMES HAVE TO DO WITH IT?
The games are the fun way in. The data is the point. For example, in Ledger Defender every enemy is a real transaction that just landed, so while you're playing, you're watching the ledger at work.
HOW DO YOU GET THE NUMBERS?
All of the data is pulled directly from the ledger. Your browser follows every new ledger as the network confirms it, and gets each one's counts from this site, checked against the ledger's own hash. Payments count by delivered_amount, what actually arrived, because a partial payment can deliver far less than it says.
CAN I CHECK THE DATA MYSELF?
Absolutely, please do. Every figure shows the ledgers it came from. The Ledger page counts every ledger closed in the last five minutes. Pull those ledgers from any XRPL server, or look them up on an explorer, and you'll see the same thing here as you do there. If you don't, tell me and I'll explain why, or fix it if there's an issue.
WHAT DOES "FAILED" MEAN IF IT'S ON THE LEDGER?
A transaction can land on the ledger and still fail to do what it asked. When that happens it gets a result code starting with "tec". For example, tecPATH_DRY means there wasn't enough liquidity to route the payment. It still pays its fee, and that fee is destroyed rather than paid to anyone, so getting it wrong always costs something. That's what keeps spam off the network. The FAILED column on the Ledger page shows how often each kind of transaction fails.