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{% block mainclasses %}landing{% endblock %}

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{% block main %}
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          <h6 class="text-primary mb-4">{% trans %}XRP Overview{% endtrans %}</h6>
          <h1 class="mb-18">{% trans %}Your Questions About XRP, Answered.{% endtrans %}</h1>
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          <h2 class="mb-10">{% trans %}What is XRP?{% endtrans %}</h2>
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            <p class="col-sm">{% trans %}XRP is a digital asset that’s native to the XRP Ledger, an open-source, permissionless and decentralized <a href="https://www.distributedagreement.com/2018/09/24/what-is-a-blockchain/" target="_blank">blockchain technology</a>.{% endtrans %}</p>
            <p class="col-sm">{% trans %}Created in 2012 specifically for payments, XRP can settle transactions on the ledger in 3-5 seconds. It was built to be a better Bitcoin—faster, cheaper and greener than any other digital asset.  {% endtrans %}</p>
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      <h2>Why Developers</h2>
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        <div class="card-new">
          <h5>{% trans %}Micropayments{% endtrans %}</h5>
          <p class="my-10">{% trans %}Many businesses are building on the XRP Ledger, pursuing powerful use cases in decentralized finance, micropayments, gaming, web monetization and more. Additionally, Ripple, the technology company, is focused on building a network and infrastructure that leverages XRP to power faster, more affordable cross-border payments around the world.{% endtrans %}</p>
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        <div class="card-new">
          <h5>{% trans %}Cryptocurrency Wallets{% endtrans %}</h5>
          <p class="my-10">{% trans %}Individual consumers can use XRP to move different currencies around the world. For example, through wallets and exchanges that use <a href="https://paystring.org/" target="_blank">PayID</a>, anyone can use XRP—or any currency, be it fiat or digital assets—to easily make purchases across any payments network.{% endtrans %}</p>
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        <div class="card-new">
          <h5>{% trans %}Exchanges{% endtrans %}</h5>
          <p class="my-10">{% trans %}By building on the XRP Ledger, developers can easily integrate payments into their products—seamlessly putting money at the center of their applications. Projects like <a href="https://github.com/XRPLF/xrpl-py" target="_blank">xrpl-py</a> are making it easier for developers to leverage XRP.{% endtrans %}</p>
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