# XRP Ledger Metrics Do Not Establish How Many People Returned By Enna Lee Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/38476 Published: 2026-10-22T23:45:31.000Z Updated: 2026-10-22T23:45:31.000Z Section: Investing > Active-account totals count unique senders, while another measure includes source, destination and destination-tag activity. XRP Ledger activity measures track ledger activity, but they do not establish how many individual people were active or whether they returned after a period of inactivity. The active-account measure counts unique senders. Funded addresses map to ledger accounts; unfunded ones are not accounts, and account records do not verify anyone’s identity. The total therefore describes ledger activity, not a verified count of people. A separate active-users measure includes source and destination activity, along with destination-tag activity. The measures cover different kinds of ledger activity, and neither shows when an address last transacted. Destination tags help distinguish payments for different users routed through a multipurpose address. They do not, by themselves, identify who controls an address. An earlier [XRP Ledger account-growth story about newly activated accounts]() illustrates the same distinction: an account count does not establish how many people joined or returned. ## Links in this article - [XRP Ledger account-growth story about newly activated accounts](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/23704)