The Ripple wiki has a page about demurrage currencies being a possibility in Ripple. However, it's not entirely clear whether this feature is already implemented in the server or client, and if so, how to properly use it.
Can one create a demurrage currency in Ripple, and if so, how does one do it?
You can find an answer with an example here: https://gist.github.com/justmoon/8597643
Type 0x01 means demurraging currency:
01 __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
CURCODE- DATE------- RATE------------------- RESERVED---
CURCODE - Three character uppercase ASCII.
DATE - DEPRECATED Demurrage start date (Ripple epoch; seconds since 2000) -> There is no reason to choose one reference date over another so this feature will be removed.
For now just make sure you ALWAYS set the date to 00 00 00 00
RATE - Demurrage rate, defined as e-folding time in seconds (IEEE 754 double-precision floating-point)
RESERVED - Reserved for future use, duh
Note: Date and rate are four-byte aligned, rate is eight-byte aligned, for easy parsing on 32/64 bit CPUs.
Demurrage example:
01 58 41 55 00 00 00 00 C1 F7 6F F6 EC B0 BA C6 00 00 00 00
// Calculating the demurrage rate //
// We want 0.5% per year. There are 31536000 in a year, so the e-folding time in seconds is:
31536000 / ln(0.995) = -6291418827.045599
// In plain English: The nominal amount of this asset will decrease (hence the minus sign) e times (≈2.71828) every 6291418827.045599 seconds
// As hex (IEEE double): http://gregstoll.dyndns.org/~gregstoll/floattohex/
0xc1f76ff6ecb0bac6
// Final currency code 0158415500000000C1F76FF6ECB0BAC600000000
// Example TrustSet {"Flags":131072,"TransactionType":"TrustSet","Account":"rNb721TdNHN37yoURrMYDiQFmvXmENCZW6","LimitAmount":{"value":"1000","currency":"0158415500000000C1F76FF6ECB0BAC600000000","issuer":"rUyPiNcSFFj6uMR2gEaD8jUerQ59G1qvwN"}}
Thats it, it's created now.
P.S.: For now I know the only one place where this currencies are shown correctly: https://bithomp.com/explorer/forabc
