How Users Interact with the Sidechain
Axiom abstracts away most of the complexity of bridging and sidechain mechanics, but there are several valid ways to interact with the protocol.
Most human users will simply:
Deposit XRP (or RLUSD, when available) from the XRPL mainnet, a CEX or another enabled sidechain
Trade in markets
Withdraw their assets
For AI agents, Axiom CLI is the recommended interface. It provides a more consistent and ergonomic workflow and can expose richer protocol data than direct contract calls alone.
At the same time, Axiom is a decentralized protocol built on smart contracts. Nobody can prevent users or agents from interacting with supported permissionless contract functions directly on the XRPL EVM Sidechain.
Behind the scenes, the protocol handles:
Bridging with the sidechain
Gas estimation
Routing transactions
Conversions between assets (if needed for vault distribution)
Payout steps at settlement
Direct contract interaction remains valid, but it can be less convenient and may expose less metadata, historical context, or backend-derived views than the CLI.
The user experience is kept clean and simple by design, whether someone arrives through the app, through Axiom CLI, or through direct onchain interaction.
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