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xrpl.js
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XRPLF / xrpl.js

xrpl.js

A JavaScript/TypeScript API for interacting with the XRP Ledger in Node.js and the browser

2Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.3KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A JavaScript/TypeScript API for interacting with the XRP Ledger in Node.js and the browser

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-10-01 17:20:41 UTC to 2015-02-02 19:25:51 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 292014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 12014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-02-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 2

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 292014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 62014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 132014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 202014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 272014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 32014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 102014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 172014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 242014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 12014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 82014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 152014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 222014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 292014-12-29 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 52015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 122015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 192015-01-19 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 262015-01-26 00:00:00 UTC2015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 22015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC2015-02-09 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

4 sources
Ripple Labs -- San Francisco Our team is building and maintaining the decentralized, open-source Ripple Protocol and the ecosystem that surrounds it in order to enable money to move around the globe in with the same speed and efficiency as information does. (No ACH holding times or fees.) Our team writes open source software and all our products are available on Github. We want to help the community to build on top of our protocol and develop products to enable them to do so, such as ripple-lib, gatewayd and ripple-rest. We're a 90-person seed-stage startup, funded by top-notch VC's including Google Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz. We are hiring backend engineers of all levels to design and build open-source, server-side Node.JS Applications that integrate with the Ripple Protocol. Some projects you might work on include https://github.
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com/codius, https://github.com/ripple/ripple-lib, https://github.com/ripple/ripple-rest, and https://github.com/ripple/gatewayd We are also hiring very senior C++ engineers, as well as support engineers, integration engineers and solutions architects. Please email careers (at) ripple.com if you're interested.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)
Ripple Labs - San Francisco (Relocation available for excellent candidates) Named one of the 50 Smartest Companies by MIT Technology Review, Ripple Labs is an 80 person startup backed by prominent investors, such as Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and IDG Capital Partners. The original developers of the Ripple protocol, we now support its growth by contributing code to the open-source software, as well as recruiting and developing tools for financial institutions and payment networks to use Ripple. Ripple is an Internet protocol that interconnects the world’s financial systems to enable the real-time, secure transfer of funds in any currency. As settlement infrastructure, Ripple transforms and enhances today’s financial systems. Ripple unlocks assets and provides access to payment systems for everyone, em
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powering the world to move value like information moves today. We are hiring backend engineers of all levels to design and build open-source, server-side Node.JS Applications that integrate with the Ripple Protocol. Some projects you might work on include https://github.com/codius, https://github.com/ripple/ripple-lib, https://github.com/ripple/ripple-rest, and https://github.com/ripple/gatewayd Please email careers (at) ripple.com if you're interested.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)
Senior Software Engineer - Node.js | Ripple Labs | San Francisco, CA | careers@ripple.com ======= Named one of the 50 Smartest Companies by MIT Technology Review, Ripple Labs (www.ripplelabs.com) is an 80 person startup backed by prominent investors, such as Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and IDG Capital Partners. The original developers of the Ripple protocol, we now support its growth by contributing code to the open-source software, as well as recruiting and developing tools for financial institutions and payment networks to use Ripple (www.ripple.com). Ripple is an Internet protocol that interconnects the world’s financial systems to enable the real-time, secure transfer of funds in any currency. As settlement infrastructure, Ripple transforms and enhances today’s financial systems. Ripple unlocks as
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sets and provides access to payment systems for everyone, empowering the world to move value like information moves today. The Senior Software Engineer will design and build server-side applications that will allow our current and future partners to integrate with the Ripple Protocol. Ripple Labs is a pioneer in using object-oriented Javascript to build scaling applications for utilizing cryptocurrency protocols, and we’re looking for someone who can bring out the best in our developers to continue this thought leadership. ======= You will: Design and build Node.js applications for partners and our open-source community Use tools like redis, nginx, postgres, resque, websockets, zeromq, couchdb, aws and others to build enterprise-grade open-source financial software. Work closely with our Integration team on partner requirements and compatibility Build RESTful APIs (github.com/ripple/ripple-rest) for submitting payments and monitoring accounts on the Ripple network Contribute crypto-currency and financial system plugins to gatewayd (github.com/ripple/gatewayd) Contribute to ripple-lib (github.com/ripple/ripple-lib), our JS library for connecting to the rippled server locally and remotely Hone your test-driven development skills as part of a classy and focused engineering team Share our approach and principles with developer communities both in San Francisco and worldwide ======= What you might look like: Experience building scalable server applications We don’t discriminate by language but you could have built large-scale server applications in Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python (Django), Java (Spring and Strut) More broadly we seek professional engineering experience in a diverse set of languages and understanding of engineering concepts: Object-oriented and classical inheritance paradigms Unix process and concurrency models Server application deployment and infrastructure automation Messaging and Job Queuing with Redis, Resque, Zeromq, RabbitMQ, and others Relational databases, non-relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, NoSQL, CouchDB, DynamoDB) Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) a plus Ability to communicate effectively and a scientific mindset - empirically test your hypotheses. We believe in not standing in the way of creativity, be deserving of the freedom we'll give you. You direct your own work and are pro-active in asking for input. Startup experience or past work with cryptocurrencies are an added bonus Interests: open-source, entrepreneurship, economics and financial markets, equal access for all people globally, strong work ethic, creative thinking, systems thinking, cryptography, creative logic, fast-paced environment ======= What we offer: Competitive salary and equity Fully paid medical and dental insurance for employees, 50% contribution for spouses and dependents Fully paid Equinox gym membership Take time off when you need it - unlimited vacation policy Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave policies Work with some of the best - early Bitcoin pioneers and cryptographers, ex-NASA engineers, ex-Fed regulators State-of-the-art penthouse facility in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District Range of fresh, organic snacks, beverages and coffees The opportunity to change the way we transact ======= Please email careers@ripple.com for more details!
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)
Senior Software Engineer - Node.js | Ripple Labs | San Francisco, CA | careers@ripple.com ========= Our Mission: Enable the world to move value like information moves today. ========= About Ripple Labs: Ripple Labs is a 60+ person seed-stage startup backed by prominent investors such as Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and IDG Capital Partners. We developed Ripple (www.github.com/ripple/ripped), an open-source, distributed payments protocol that enables the exchange of value in any currency, instantly and for free. Ripple Labs focuses on improving the core protocol and building tools for developers and enterprise financial services firms to use Ripple as settlement infrastructure for real-time payments. Ripple’s distributed ledger can accommodate any store of value, including dollars, yen, euros, bitcoins,
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and even loyalty points, making it the world’s first distributed currency exchange. ========= The Senior Software Engineer will design and build server-side applications that will allow our current and future partners to integrate with the Ripple Protocol. Ripple Labs is a pioneer in using object-oriented Javascript to build scaling applications for utilizing cryptocurrency protocols, and we’re looking for someone who can bring out the best in our developers to continue this thought leadership. ========= You will: Design and build Node.js applications for partners and our open-source community Use tools like redis, nginx, postgres, resque, websockets, zeromq, couchdb, aws and others to build enterprise-grade open-source financial software. Work closely with our Integration team on partner requirements and compatibility Build RESTful APIs (github.com/ripple/ripple-rest) for submitting payments and monitoring accounts on the Ripple network Contribute crypto-currency and financial system plugins to gatewayd (github.com/ripple/gatewayd) Contribute to ripple-lib (github.com/ripple/ripple-lib), our JS library for connecting to the rippled server locally and remotely Hone your test-driven development skills as part of a classy and focused engineering team Share our approach and principles with developer communities both in San Francisco and worldwide ========= Your background: Experience building scalable server applications We don’t discriminate by language but you could have built large-scale server applications in Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python (Django), Java (Spring and Strut) More broadly we seek professional engineering experience in a diverse set of languages and understanding of engineering concepts: Object-oriented and classical inheritance paradigms Unix process and concurrency models Server application deployment and infrastructure automation Messaging and Job Queuing with Redis, Resque, Zeromq, RabbitMQ, and others Relational databases, non-relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, NoSQL, CouchDB, DynamoDB) Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) a plus Ability to communicate effectively and a scientific mindset - empirically test your hypotheses. We believe in not standing in the way of creativity, be deserving of the freedom we'll give you. You direct your own work and are pro-active in asking for input. Startup experience or past work with cryptocurrencies are an added bonus Interests: open-source, entrepreneurship, economics and financial markets, equal access for all people globally, strong work ethic, creative thinking, systems thinking, cryptography, creative logic, fast-paced environment ========= What we offer: Competitive salary and compelling seed stage equity Fully paid medical and dental insurance for employees, 50% contribution for spouses and dependents Take time off when you need it - unlimited vacation policy Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave policies Open source projects 100% of the time A learning environment where you can dive into the latest technologies and engineering principles as well as mentor our upcoming engineers Work with some of the best - early Bitcoin pioneers and cryptographers, ex-NASA engineers, ex-Fed regulators State-of-the-art penthouse facility in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District and flexibility to work remotely The opportunity to change the way we transact ========= To apply, email careers@ripple.com
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

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