XRP Ledger RPC Nodes Fall Short of Impressive Claim

A claim circulating on social media that XRP Ledger RPC nodes can process 30,000 messages per second has been debunked by verified benchmarks.

XRPL Labs, one of the primary infrastructure developers for the XRP Ledger, focuses on latency rather than raw message throughput. Their public endpoint currently posts a p50 latency of approximately 371 milliseconds for ledger_current calls, making it the lowest-latency option among public XRPL servers.

Public server clusters have been observed handling over 10,000 reads per second during peak usage periods, which is a solid number for blockchain infrastructure but only a third of the claimed 30,000 figure. GetBlock, another infrastructure provider, claims its XRPL nodes can process upward of 1,000 requests per second without rate limitations on dedicated setups.

The closest anyone has gotten to the headline figure involves validator messaging, which is fundamentally different from client-server RPC requests. Validator message handling has recorded averages around 3,260 messages per second under optimal testing conditions, with peaks above 6,100 messages per second.