What is (and how much is) the XRP ledger account reserve?

Every XRP ledger account has a 10 XRP reserve to activate the account. There are other reserves as well.

The XRP Ledger applies reserve requirements, in XRP, to protect the shared global ledger from growing excessively large as the result of spam or malicious usage. 

To submit transactions, an address must hold a minimum amount of XRP. You cannot send this XRP to other addresses. To fund a new account, you must send enough XRP to meet the reserve requirement.

The current minimum reserve requirement is 10 XRP. Each new account must set aside this much XRP, which cannot be recovered or sent to others.

The 10 XRP reserve is not a requirement by XUMM, but a characteristic of the XRP ledger.

Other transactions can cause the reserve to become higher, eg. 

• An escrow

• An open offer on the decentralized exchange

• Added token/currency held (Tokens / IOU's: each Trust Line)

They will add 2 XRP to your account reserve. Your account with 2 added currencies (eg. BitStamp USD and GateHub EUR) will thus have a 14 XRP reserve.

The reserves can be recovered by finishing an escrow, deleting or fulfilling your offer on the decentralized exchange, removing your added currency (trustline) and/or deleting the account from the XRP ledger (which is not the same as removing it from XUMM).

There are tools available for these operations at: https://xrpl.services/tools