XRP Mobile Help
FAQ

How fast is a payment?

An XRP payment settles in one ledger close, three to five seconds. Swaps and anything crossing to another network take as long as that network needs.

The XRP Ledger closes a new ledger every three to five seconds, and a payment is final the moment it is included. There is no pending state to babysit and no confirmations to count.

Anything that leaves the XRP Ledger is slower: a swap, a send to another chain, or a deposit from another chain settles at the speed of the slowest network involved, from under a minute to, for Bitcoin, the better part of an hour.