Moving XRP across

Your XRP lives on the XRP Ledger. To pay fees on the sidechain, you need XRP over there. A bridge carries it across.

You send XRP on the XRP Ledger side. The bridge's network confirms it. Matching XRP is then minted on the sidechain for the address you chose.

Three things change when you cross:

1. Your wallet. The sidechain uses Ethereum-style accounts. The project's guide uses MetaMask on that side. Your XRP Ledger wallet does not hold sidechain funds.

2. Who you rely on. On the XRP Ledger, your XRP depends only on the ledger. Across the bridge, it also depends on the bridge network and on the sidechain's validators. That is two more groups that must work correctly.

3. Which rules apply. Reserves, destination tags and trust lines are XRP Ledger ideas. The sidechain has its own fee and account rules.

If you want to try it, the sidechain has a Testnet with a faucet for test XRP. Nothing real is at stake there.

This is not a recommendation to bridge. It is a description of what happens if you do.

Axelar. The docs describe Axelar as a decentralized cross-chain communication protocol. Its validators run proof-of-stake consensus and check the integrity of cross-chain messages. Ripple's launch post calls Axelar the first interoperability provider to connect the XRPL EVM, bridging XRP as the native gas asset.

Two Axelar services are named:

• ITS moves tokens.
• GMP (General Message Passing) carries messages between chains.

The user flow in the project's guide uses the Squid app as the front end:

1. Connect an XRP Ledger wallet. The guide lists Crossmark and the XRPL Snap for MetaMask.
2. Enter the amount of XRP.
3. Add the recipient: an XRPL EVM address.
4. Approve the transaction in the XRP Ledger wallet.
5. Add the XRPL EVM network to MetaMask and check the balance there.

The guide does not state a transfer time, a fee or a minimum. It tells users to keep enough XRP for transaction fees. Separate guides cover trust-line tokens and ERC-20 tokens.

On arrival. The docs say XRP is bridged from the XRPL via Axelar, minted on the sidechain and used as the fee token.

Other bridges named in the docs:

Network settings for an EVM wallet. Mainnet: chain ID 1440000, RPC https://rpc.xrplevm.org/, symbol XRP. Testnet: chain ID 1449000, RPC https://rpc.testnet.xrplevm.org/. Always take these from the project's docs, not from a message or an ad.

Before signing. The transaction you approve on the XRP Ledger side sends real XRP. Read the destination and amount as you would for any payment. See Scams and signing.

Not the native bridge design. The XRP Ledger has its own bridge proposal, XChainBridge. It is a different mechanism, and it is not enabled on Mainnet. See XChainBridge.