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DIDs
A W3C-style identifier an account controls. One per account, with a pointer to a public document.
3 lessons10 minDifficulty Checked 2026-11-10A decentralized identifier, or DID, is an identifier its owner controls without a central registry. On the XRP Ledger, each account can hold one DID entry. The entry is public, and by itself it proves nothing about who is behind it.
- Look up an account's DID entry with ledger_entry.
- Read the URI, Data and DIDDocument fields of a DID.