XRP burned

Every XRP Ledger transaction destroys its fee. How much has burned, and at what pace.

Burned since 201214,448,458 XRP0.014% of the original 100 billion

Last 24 hours1,751 XRP

Last 30 days39,244 XRP

XRP in existence today99,985,551,542 XRPGoes down with every transaction

XRP burned per day, last 90 days · Total for the period: 70,860 XRP

The day with the most XRP burned since May 2022 was June 15, 2023, with 60,039 XRP.

At the pace of the last 30 days, about 477,472 XRP burns per year, 0.00048% of the XRP in existence. At that pace, burning 1% would take about 2,094 years. This is arithmetic with today's pace, not a forecast: the amount burned rises and falls with network use.

XRP burned per year

Year	XRP burned	Transactions	Average fee
2022 (from May)	355,644	295,306,007	0.001204 XRP
2023	1,081,295	439,584,488	0.002460 XRP
2024	1,281,739	659,738,373	0.001943 XRP
2025	902,554	663,266,323	0.001361 XRP
2026 (to date)	167,365	745,531,866	0.000224 XRP

The daily record starts in May 2022. The current year runs through yesterday.

Why XRP is burned

Sending a transaction on the XRP Ledger requires a small fee, currently 0.00001 XRP. Nobody collects that fee: it is destroyed. So the total amount of XRP goes down a little with every transaction. It works as spam protection: flooding the network costs XRP.

When the network is very busy, the fee rises for a while and more is burned. That is why the chart has spikes. Deleting an account also burns a special fee, equal to one object reserve.

An account reserve is not burned: it stays locked in the account. Ripple escrow is not a burn either: that XRP is released on a schedule.

See daily network activity in XRP Ledger health, and the terms in the glossary.

Total read from the XRP Ledger. Daily detail from XRPScan, in UTC. Not investment advice.