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A hands-on XRPL training from the UZH Blockchain Center's Deep Dive into Blockchain 2026, taking you from your first funded wallet to building real transactions and exploring the XRP Ledger's native payments and decentralized finance.
Welcome to the 2026 "Deep Dive into Blockchain" International Summer School, hosted by the UZH Blockchain Center! Whether you are joining us on-campus in Zurich or at our off-site campus partnership at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, we are thrilled to have you with us for this XRP Ledger workshop.
XRPL Commons is a proud collaborator of this program and is delighted to deliver this specialized module on the Introduction to the XRP Ledger. Over the next hour, Mathis Sergent, Research Engineer at XRPL Commons, will be your instructor.
Before we dive in, please ensure you have the following prerequisites ready to go:
- Active XRPL Academy account
- Smartphone with the Xaman wallet installed
- Computer with internet access
Modules
First Steps with the XRP Ledger: Setting Up Your Xaman Wallet on Testnet
Create and fund an XRP Ledger Testnet account, import it into the Xaman wallet on your phone, switch Xaman to the Testnet, and send your first payment.
Introduction to the XRP Ledger
A conceptual introduction to the XRP Ledger: the protocol's history, its native-features architecture, and how it evolves through amendments.
Transactions on the XRP Ledger Capstone
How transactions change the XRP Ledger: the anatomy of a transaction, transaction types and flags, the validation lifecycle, canonical ordering, and what a single ledger version contains.
DeFi Insights on the XRP Ledger
The building blocks of decentralized finance native to the XRP Ledger: XRP & Issued Tokens (IOUs), Trustlines, the protocol-level Decentralized Exchange (DEX), with the Central Limit Order Book (CLOB), Automated Market Maker (AMM), and Pathfinding.
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