XRPL Live
When the ledger is busy the feed shows a readable sample and counts the rest; the totals above count everything. Amounts in dollars are approximate, converted at the live XRP price. Click any row for the full transaction type, the fee it destroyed, its ledger, and a link to the public explorer.
What you are looking at
The source is a public XRP Ledger cluster node (xrplcluster.com) over a WebSocket subscription to the live transaction and ledger streams. Nothing is filtered in except readability: when volume spikes past what a human can read, the feed samples what it shows and keeps counting everything in the totals.
The machine at the top is the same data drawn instead of written: each dot is one incoming transaction, coloured by type, and each sealed block is one closed ledger. The stream delivers a ledger's transactions as they are validated, so the dots arrive in pulses around each close; the number stamped on a sealed block comes from the ledger message itself and is exact. With reduced motion set, the machine redraws statically instead of animating.
The colour code: gold rows are payments, teal rows are activity on the ledger's built-in exchange (orders and automated market makers), slate rows are trust lines (an account agreeing to hold a token issued by another), red-brown rows are escrows and checks (money locked now to move later), pale gold rows are NFT operations, and grey rows are everything else, labelled by their technical name.
Why this teaches something: "a blockchain settles transactions" is an abstraction until you watch a ledger close every few seconds and everything in it become final. Speed, finality and fees (each transaction here destroyed 0.00001 XRP, a fraction of a cent) stop being marketing claims when they scroll past with timestamps. The live claimed-versus-actual numbers for this and four other networks are on our TPS Reality Board.
The vault at the top shows the same minute of settlement on five networks, measured this visit from each network's own public interface: the XRP Ledger stream above, Solana performance samples counting non-vote transactions only (publicnode RPC), the latest Ethereum block (publicnode RPC), Bitcoin mempool arrivals (mempool.space), and Hedera mirror-node blocks (mirrornode.hedera.com). When a network moves faster than spheres can show, one ball stands for many transactions and the legend says exactly how many. "Per day at this pace" is an extrapolation of the current measured rate, not a report of any day's total. The all-time burned figure is one hundred billion XRP minus the ledger's own reported total_coins, and the per-transaction cost claim is the ledger's documented transaction cost. Content last reviewed July 2026.
Privacy note: everything shown is already public on the ledger, as it is on every public blockchain; that transparency is itself part of the education. Addresses are shortened and never linked to identities here.