Most developers approach XRPL event monitoring like it's a simple polling problem. They spin up a script that checks wallet balances every few minutes, maybe set up a cron job to scan for new transactions. When they need real-time updates, they build a WebSocket listener that connects directly to the ledger.
This approach breaks down fast. WebSocket connections drop. Rate limits kick in. Transaction parsing gets complex when you're dealing with DEX trades, escrow releases, and payment channel updates. The script that worked fine in development starts missing events in production.
The correct frame: XRPL event monitoring is an infrastructure problem, not a feature problem.
You need reliable delivery, retry logic, signature verification, and dead-letter queues. You need to handle 22 different event types across seven categories without your application logic becoming a mess of conditional statements. Most importantly, you need this infrastructure to work when your application scales beyond a few users.
I built XRNotify because every XRPL developer was solving the same infrastructure problem independently. The results were predictable: brittle listeners, missed events, no monitoring, and hours spent debugging webhook delivery failures instead of building product features.
