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- A mysterious transaction of 410 million XRP, valued at over $203 million, catches attention due to its odd 20 XRP transaction fee.
- Ripple’s CTO, David Schwartz, speculates a possible error in the fee calculation.
Unraveling the Puzzle of the Outsized XRP Fee
The Ripple community was recently abuzz with intrigue over a unique XRP transaction. Noted by Saul, a pro-XRP enthusiast, while sifting through XRP Scan, a renowned XRPL explorer, the transaction’s distinct feature was its 20 XRP transaction fee on a whopping transfer of 410 million XRP. Given that the norm for XRP transactions is a nearly negligible 0.00001 XRP, this anomaly couldn’t go unnoticed.
@Vet_X0 Is it normal for a payment like this having a 20 XRP fee? pic.twitter.com/c3niUDw2DI
— Saul 🏴☠️ (@uptownsaul) October 11, 2023
Upon spotting this, Saul, in his quest for clarity, approached Vet, a distinguished XRP Ledger validator, posing the question:
“Is it customary for a transaction of this magnitude to have a 20 XRP fee?”
Vet’s straightforward response was that it was excessive and entirely out of the ordinary.
Insight from Ripple’s Corner
David Schwartz, Ripple‘s Chief Technology Officer, didn’t remain silent on the matter. Drawing upon his vast expertise, he ventured that there might have been a computational misstep. Schwartz’s hypothesis was that the sender might have intended to set the fee at 20 drops.
However, they may have inadvertently magnified it a million-fold. For clarity, a “drop” is the smallest XRP unit, where 1 XRP equates to 1,000,000 drops. Thus, the standard transaction fee of 0.00001 XRP is equivalent to 10 drops.
XRP Scan’s official account further delved into this mysterious fee. Their stance was that the sender might have been aiming to exhaust their account balance completely, opting for a 20 XRP transaction fee to achieve this. The underlying rationale, as per XRP Scan, was,
“They’re endeavoring to draw down their account to a zero balance by burning the account reserve, possibly oblivious of the revised account reserve stipulation and the AccountDelete transaction.”
A silver lining in this peculiarity was noted by some in the crypto space. They pointed out that even a 20 XRP sfee, equating to $9.904, remains incredibly affordable for a transaction that’s north of $200 million in value. This observation brings to light the unparalleled advantage of XRPL’s remarkably low transaction costs.
