Welcome to The Hearth.
Every home has one — the place stories get told and questions get answered. This is where XRPL Home keeps its guides, its product docs, and its people. Ember tends the Hearth with you, every step of the way.
Artist Guides
Start Here: Artist Onboarding
The first guide every new XRPL artist should read: connect a wallet, set up a collection, mint your first piece, set a royalty, and join the $DOOD CommUnity — in order.
How to Mint Your Art on XRPL Home
A step-by-step walkthrough for artists who want to mint an NFT on XRPL, from connecting your wallet to Mint Complete, including royalties, AI disclosure and what collectors actually see.
Setting Up Collections on the XRPL
How to group your XRP Ledger NFTs into a collection that collectors can actually browse: choosing its home at mint, consistent traits and metadata, and the checks to run before you confirm.
Collector Guides
XRPL 101: What the XRP Ledger Is and Why Artists Build Here
A complete beginner's guide to the XRP Ledger: ~3–5 second settlement, fees of a fraction of a cent, no gas wars, no mining, and native support for XRPL NFTs.
How to Collect NFTs on the XRP Ledger
A beginner's guide to collecting on the XRP Ledger: setting up a wallet, finding art on Explore, buying safely, checking authenticity, and keeping it all in your Vault.
How to Collect NFTs Safely on the XRPL
Verify issuer addresses, match the taxon, read every signing request, and spot the DM scams aimed at new collectors. The practical safety habits for collecting NFTs on the XRP Ledger.
XRPL Home Docs
Individual NFT Minting: Digital Art, Step by Step
The official XRPL Home walkthrough for minting a single piece of digital art — from wallet connect to Mint Complete, with collection, AI disclosure, traits and creator royalty covered.
Reveal Mint™ and the Living COA™ Lifecycle
The complete Reveal Mint™ reference: the artist walkthrough from mint type to QR signature, and the full sixteen-phase Living COA™ lifecycle from authentication to legacy.
Physical Art + COA: The Full Lifecycle
How XRPL Home handles physical art with a Certificate of Authenticity on XRPL: mint, sell, ship, track, verify, and clean up the collector's shipping data once delivery is confirmed.
Interviews
Asthenia: nostalgia, rendered frame by frame
Game Boys, emo music and anime, turned into looping pixel animation through Photoshop, Aseprite and MagicaVoxel — Asthenia on process, emotion, and slow markets.
Brats: pixel art as a lifeline
Laid off as a barista and supporting his parents, wife and child under one roof, Brats creates pixel art to provide — and asks newcomers to build rather than extract.
BreadHead: built, not given
Told he had no talent for art, BreadHead taught himself voxel art through Minecraft, failed on two chains, and built a multi-chain career on persistence alone.