Ripple development and training suit - Part 1

This is part 1 of two part course on Ripple blockchain development.

This part focuses on providing fundamental understanding of Ripple blockchain and different APIs available for development.

Ripple is a real-time gross settlement system (RTGS), currency exchange and remittance network created by Ripple Labs Inc.

The underlying Ripple Transaction Protocol (RTXP) or Ripple Protocol is build upon a distributed open source internet protocol and a consensus ledger.

The decentralized native digital asset powering the ledger is known as XRP.

The goal of Ripple is to make bank transactions more efficient and transparent, especially cross-border, inter-currency payments.

This part covers basic hands on demos using Ripple Javascript library and introduces students to Ripple wallet app. Part 2 of this course will cover the more advance concept of ripple with running demos.

The hands on demos in this part include:

1. Hello world demo for Ripple

2. Calling Ripple API in browser

3. Ripple API demo

   • Connect to a rippled server from Node.js or a web browser

   • Issue rippled API requests

   • Listen to events on the XRP Ledger (transaction, ledger, etc.)

   • Sign and submit transactions to the XRP Ledger

4. Ripple payment transaction demo

5. Overview of Ripple wallet app

We provide you an out of box environment for Ripple blockchain development  which is a  virtual machine with complete preinstalled setup.

The Ripple Development and Training Suit VM is available on:

1. Google Cloud Platform

2. AWS

3. Microsoft Azure