The XRP casino glossary behind every other page here

This XRP casino glossary exists because most of the confusion around an XRP deposit or withdrawal comes down to a handful of words being used loosely. Some of these terms belong to the XRP Ledger itself and would mean the same thing with no casino involved at all. Others describe how a casino's own account system works, which is a different layer entirely and worth keeping separate.

Each entry below is deliberately short. Where a term is explained at greater length elsewhere on this site, the entry links there.

Terms this XRP casino glossary uses for the ledger itself

Drop. The smallest unit XRP can be divided into; 1,000,000 drops make one XRP, and the network's own transfer fee is measured in drops rather than in whole XRP. Any dollar or bonus figure printed on a casino screen has already been converted away from drops by that operator's own system.

Ledger. The XRP Ledger's own continuously updated record of every account and every balance on the network, maintained independently of any casino, wallet, or exchange. A casino's own account database is a separate record entirely, even when it displays figures drawn from this one.

Ledger close. The moment a new version of the ledger is agreed and becomes final; the network completes this in a few seconds, and once a transfer is part of a closed ledger it is settled. The fuller mechanics of a ledger close are laid out on the XRP Ledger page.

Validator. One of the independent servers that take part in agreeing which transactions belong in the next ledger close; no single validator, and no casino, controls that outcome alone. A casino may run its own infrastructure to watch the ledger, but that infrastructure has no special say in which transactions the validators agree on.

Terms this XRP casino glossary uses for a payment's own fields

Destination tag. A numeric field carried alongside a payment, separate from the destination address itself, used when many depositing accounts share one address so the receiving system can tell them apart; the ledger itself does not require it to be filled in. The full detail of how this field is used, and what happens when it is left out, is on the destination tag page.

Base reserve. The minimum amount every XRP Ledger account must hold and cannot send away, for as long as the account exists; the network sets this figure, not any casino, and it applies to a casino's own deposit address the same way it applies to anyone else's wallet. The full explanation of how this differs from a casino's own minimum-deposit rule is on the account reserve page.

Terms for balances, not ledger mechanics

Trust line. An XRP Ledger account's own record that it is willing to hold a specific asset issued by another account; XRP itself needs no trust line, since it is the network's own native asset rather than something issued by any account.

Ripple. Lowercase, and distinct from both XRP the asset and Ripple the company: the mechanism by which a balance can pass across a connected chain of trust lines between accounts that hold no direct line to each other, a feature of the ledger's own design rather than a brand name.

Custodial balance. The balance a casino's own account system displays to you, held and controlled by that casino rather than by a wallet key you hold yourself; it is a bookkeeping figure inside the operator's own system, not an entry on the XRP Ledger. How a casino turns a settled deposit into this kind of balance is covered on conversion.

Why this XRP casino glossary keeps ledger words and cashier words apart

The split running through every entry above is the same one that runs through the rest of this site: a term either describes something the network itself does, the same way for everyone, or it describes something a specific operator's own system does, which can differ from one cashier to the next. Drop, ledger, ledger close, validator, and base reserve belong to the first group. Custodial balance belongs to the second. Destination tag and trust line are fields the ledger defines, but how and whether a casino asks you to use them is, again, a cashier-level choice on top of a ledger-level fact.

Keeping that split in mind is most of what it takes to read a deposit or withdrawal screen correctly, and it is the same split this site's own method — described on how this site is built — is built around.

How to use these entries alongside the rest of the site

None of the entries above are casino-specific claims, and none of them are meant to stand alone as a full explanation. Each one is a short anchor, written so that a longer page elsewhere on this site can use the word without re-defining it every time. Where a term has a page of its own — destination tag, base reserve, the ledger itself — the entry above links there, and that page is the place to go for the full mechanics, worked examples, and the reasoning behind why the term matters at a cashier.

Where a term does not have a dedicated page, such as drop, validator, trust line, or custodial balance, the one-sentence entry here is the complete definition this site works from. If a claim elsewhere on this site depends on one of these words meaning something more specific than what is written here, that claim should point back to this page or explain the difference directly, rather than silently assume a reader already has the fuller picture.

Most of these terms recur in the operator notes on best ripple casinos, where each score links back to the document it came from.