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# The Developer Handbook: How to Build on the Blockchain

Value transfers should be as seamless as streaming digital data. Learn to integrate decentralized, lightning-fast micro-transactions directly into your Python apps using the XRP Ledger.

- **Speakers:** Matt Hamilton
- **Event:** World Congress 2021
- **Published:** June 28, 2021
- **Duration:** 42:05
- **URL:** https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/223-the-developer-handbook-how-to-build-on-the-blockchain
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