A large share of XRP holders have no idea that Automated Market Makers have been live on the XRP Ledger since March 2026. The amendment that made it possible, XLS-30d, added a way to earn on XRP you already hold.
How AMMs on XRPL Work
You deposit two assets into a liquidity pool, and the protocol uses a constant product formula to adjust prices automatically without any human intervention. There’s no middleman setting prices and no one who can manipulate them: it’s pure math running on-chain. Fees earned from the pool come back in the same assets you deposited, so if you put in XRP and a dollar-pegged asset, that’s what you earn in return.
Why the Cost Difference Matters
Compare this to Ethereum’s AMMs, where gas fees can run into the hundreds of dollars during periods of network congestion. On XRPL, transactions typically settle in three to five seconds for a fraction of a cent. That cost structure changes who can realistically participate in providing liquidity, since fees don’t eat into small deposits the way they can on other chains.
The Institutional Angle
Banks in dozens of countries already use Ripple‘s On-Demand Liquidity for cross-border payments, which historically required banks to park large sums in pre-funded accounts overseas just to move money quickly. AMM pools on XRPL offer a way to free up some of that capital by providing on-demand liquidity instead. Separately, companies building outside pure finance are integrating with XRPL too, including Futureverse, which is building metaverse environments in partnership with Warner Bros and using XRP as its gas token. XRPL was designed from early on to handle multiple asset types natively, and AMMs are one of the more concrete examples of that design paying off, even if most holders haven’t looked closely enough to notice yet.
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