XRP to LINK: Swap XRP for Chainlink on Ethereum, No KYC

XRP is the native coin of the XRP Ledger. Your balance lives in an account whose address starts with r, the ledger closes a new version every few seconds, and the small transaction cost is paid in XRP itself. Xaman and the XRP app on a Ledger are the usual places to hold it.

LINK lives somewhere else entirely. It is the Chainlink token, an ERC-20 contract on Ethereum, and a balance of it belongs to a 0x address. Xaman has no way to show or receive it. You need an Ethereum wallet such as MetaMask, Rabby or the Ethereum app on a Ledger before you start.

A single Ledger device can run both apps, but they still produce two different accounts with two different address formats. The swap simply connects them: XRP leaves your r account, and LINK lands at the 0x address you typed in. No bridge, no wrapped XRP and no sidechain sit in between, and no GhostSwap account is created along the way.

Every XRP Ledger account keeps a base reserve that cannot be sent. Wallets usually show it as locked or unavailable. Enter an amount from the spendable part only; a payment that tries to dip into the reserve is rejected by the ledger before it ever reaches the deposit address.

The deposit screen may show a Destination Tag next to the address. If it does, copy that number into the tag field of your payment exactly as shown; Xaman has a separate field for it. If no tag is shown, leave the field empty and do not make one up.

Send on the XRP Ledger itself, from an address that starts with r. XRP on the XRPL EVM sidechain and XRP BEP20 on BNB Smart Chain both use 0x addresses and are different networks, so a transfer from either one never arrives here. The deposit settles in a few seconds and can be checked on XRPSCAN with the transaction hash from your wallet.

Receiving LINK costs you nothing. The payout lands at your 0x address even if that wallet holds no other coins. Moving it later is a different story: any transfer of an ERC-20 token pays Ethereum gas, and gas is paid in ETH. A wallet holding only LINK can show the balance but cannot send it anywhere.

So plan the second coin before you need it. Put a small amount of ETH in the same address, or run part of your XRP through XRP to ETH first. Gas rises and falls with network demand, and the gas fee guide explains how to time a transfer.

Some wallets also hide tokens until you add them. If MetaMask does not list LINK after the payout, add it from the wallet's built-in token search rather than from a contract address someone sent you in a chat. Etherscan shows the token transfer at your address either way, so you can confirm it arrived before touching any settings.

Read the table row by row and the pair stops looking simple. The coin you send pays its own fees; the token you receive does not. The deposit side may carry a tag; the payout side never does. One side settles in seconds, the other in a few minutes. Keep both wallets open while you fill in the form, and copy each address straight from the matching app. A mix-up between the r and 0x fields is the most common reason a form will not go through.

XRP and LINK do different jobs. XRP is built around fast payments on its own ledger. LINK pays node operators in the Chainlink network for oracle services such as the price feeds that many Ethereum applications read. Swapping one for the other is a change of asset and ecosystem, not a move of the same coin to a new network.

People make the switch for plain reasons. Some want part of an XRP balance in an Ethereum-based token they can hold in MetaMask or on a Ledger. Some plan to use LINK in Ethereum applications. Others simply prefer to spread a holding over two unrelated projects. Whatever the motive, the result is a token whose fees, wallets and explorer all belong to Ethereum.

If you would rather keep LINK somewhere other than Ethereum, the exchange box lists LINK on BNB Smart Chain as a separate coin. Pick the one your wallet expects, because the two versions are not interchangeable once sent.

The exchange box shows how much LINK you receive after fees for the XRP you enter, based on aggregated liquidity from leading crypto markets. The rate floats with the market until your XRP deposit confirms, and the box also lists the minimum and maximum for this pair.

The XRP Ledger confirms the deposit in a few seconds, and most swaps finish within minutes once it is credited. The LINK transfer then needs about 2 to 5 minutes on Ethereum. Your status page under the swap ID follows each step.

The r address you give as the sender is your refund address. If a swap cannot be completed, the coins are refunded to the sender address you entered. Use an account you control in Xaman or on a Ledger, not an exchange withdrawal, because a refund to a shared exchange account may never be matched to you. If XRPSCAN shows the deposit validated and the status page has stopped moving for a long time, email support@ghostswap.io with the swap ID and the XRP transaction hash.