Transaction hash
Plain definition. A transaction hash is the identifying hash of an XRP Ledger transaction. Some ledger entries have an optional PreviousTxnID field that, when present, holds the identifying hash of the previous transaction to modify that entry, according to the XRP Ledger documentation on transaction metadata.
Technical definition. XRP Ledger documentation describes a transaction’s “identifying hash”, which a ledger entry’s PreviousTxnID field (type String - Hash) holds to name the previous transaction to modify that entry. When a transaction modifies an entry that has PreviousTxnID and PreviousTxnLgrSeq fields, it always overwrites them with its own identifying hash and the index of the ledger version that included it. In the transaction metadata, those earlier values sit at the top level of the ModifiedNode object rather than in its nested PreviousFields object.
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Transaction Metadata (xrpl.org), read October 1, 2026.
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