XRPL Transaction Cost – How the 0.00001 XRP Fee Works
Every transaction on the XRP Ledger requires a minimum fee of 0.00001 XRP (10 drops). This fee is permanently destroyed — burned — rather than paid to validators or miners.
The XRPL network fee is the small amount of XRP required for every transaction on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The base minimum fee is 0.00001 XRP — also expressed as 10 drops — making it one of the lowest transaction costs of any major blockchain. Unlike fees on networks such as Ethereum or Bitcoin, XRPL fees are not paid to validators or miners; they are permanently burned, gradually reducing the total XRP supply over time.
The fee system exists to protect the peer-to-peer network from spam and denial-of-service attacks. Even a tiny cost makes mass transaction flooding economically infeasible. During high network load, fees scale upward automatically based on the median preference of trusted validators — but even during congestion, costs remain a fraction of a cent for ordinary users.
Transactions settle on the XRP Ledger in just 3–5 seconds regardless of fee level, with no gas wars or priority bidding. This makes XRPL ideal for remittances, micropayments, institutional settlements, and high-volume DeFi applications.
Every transaction on the XRP Ledger requires a minimum fee of 0.00001 XRP (10 drops). This fee is permanently destroyed — burned — rather than paid to validators or miners.
Use our XRPL fee calculator to estimate the cost of XRP Ledger transactions in USD. Based on the base fee of 0.00001 XRP (10 drops) with load-scaling explained.
XRPL fee voting is the decentralized process by which trusted validators periodically adjust the base transaction cost and reserve requirements on the XRP Ledger.
The XRPL reserve requirement is the minimum XRP balance an account must hold. As of December 2024, the base reserve dropped from 10 XRP to just 1 XRP.
XRPL transfer fees are optional percentage fees that token issuers can charge when their issued currency moves between accounts on the XRP Ledger. Learn how TransferRate works.
A drop is the smallest unit of XRP, equal to 0.000001 XRP (one millionth). All transaction fees on the XRP Ledger are denominated in drops, including the base 10-drop minimum fee.
