MethodHow we read the ledger

The escrow total and the calendar

For each of Ripple's escrow accounts the ledger is asked for its open escrow objects (account_objects, type escrow). Their amounts are summed; their FinishAfter times make the calendar and the countdown.

The countdown is therefore a date written on the ledger, not an estimate.

Monthly reports

The transaction history of the same accounts (account_tx) is filtered to successful EscrowFinish, EscrowCreate and EscrowCancel transactions and grouped by UTC month.

“Kept” is finished minus locked again in the same month. It says where the XRP was at the end of the month, not what was done with it afterwards.

Supply, fee and reserve

The amount of existing XRP is the total_coins field of the validated ledger; 100 billion were created, so the difference is what fees have destroyed. Fee and reserve come from the fee and server_info methods.

Projections

One figure looks ahead: the month in which the escrow's share of supply would cross the next 5 % line. It divides today's distance to that line by the average net fall of the last 12 months and is labelled “projected”. It says nothing about what Ripple will do.