The XRP Ledger Foundation said today that the free public XRPL nodes it launched with Ankr in August now handle more than 1.7 million developer requests every 24 hours. It is a usage update on existing infrastructure, not a new product. That still matters: it is one of the few hard numbers we have on how much public ledger access is actually being used.
XRP market moves
XRP opened November 12 (00:00 UTC) at about $1.05, market cap near $66.8B, with about $1.59B in 24-hour volume (CoinGecko). The session faded from about $1.07 down toward $1.02–$1.03. A developer-infra update does not explain that drift, and we are not going to pretend it does.
What the Foundation said
On X, the Foundation wrote that it had "expanded public XRP Ledger infrastructure with free access to XRPL nodes via @ankr" and that "they now handle over 1,700,000 developer requests every 24 hours." Crypto.news timed the post and write-up to November 12.
The service itself is not new. The Foundation and Ankr announced the rollout on August 3, with nodes in New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Singapore and automatic routing between them. Ankr said at launch that the XRPL service supported 43 methods covering accounts, ledgers, transactions, payment paths and server info, including a simulate-before-submit call.
The public endpoints are mainnet.xrpl-rpc.com and testnet.xrpl-rpc.com. Access requires no API key and no registration. The free tier is rate-limited per IP, offered on a best-effort basis, and is not the same as Ankr's paid plans, which advertise higher throughput and uptime commitments. Ankr's docs say the full nodes keep roughly the latest two weeks of history — on the order of 360,000–380,000 ledgers — so requests for older data fail. Apps that need deep history still need an archive or an explorer.
Official XRPL server directories already list other public connections, including ones with full history. Ripple's own public servers come with a warning that they are not meant for sustained business use. The Ankr pair is a Foundation-backed free option with a published usage number, not a replacement for running your own node.
Limits, and a separate Ankr headline
A request count is not a unique-developer count, and it is not a transaction count on Mainnet. One busy indexer can look like a crowd. The Foundation did not break the 1.7 million into unique IPs, methods, or mainnet versus testnet, so we will not invent that mix.
Separately, security firm Blockaid reported on November 9 an exploit involving an Ankr Ethereum bridge, with five unauthorized withdrawals and just over $300,000 in priced assets. Crypto.news notes that the initial report did not establish a compromise of Ankr's RPC infrastructure or of personal wallets. That incident is not, on today's evidence, a breach of the XRPL public nodes. It is still a reminder to keep RPC providers and bridges in different risk buckets.
Other verified items today
LendingProtocol and LendingProtocolV1_1 remained at 22 of 35 validators (threshold 28), not enabled. SingleAssetVault was at 23. The Foundation also flagged a Testnet and Devnet reset for Wednesday, November 25, 5–6 PM PT (8–9 PM ET) to improve full-history server stability. Mainnet is unaffected.
Question everything
"1.7 million requests" is a Foundation figure about its Ankr endpoints, not a measure of XRPL adoption or of XRP demand. Free, rate-limited RPCs with a two-week history window are a reasonable on-ramp for builders. They are not institutional-grade infrastructure, and the Foundation is not claiming they are.
What people are talking about
Developer Twitter is treating the number as proof the ledger is busy. Price Twitter is watching $1.03. Those conversations are talking past each other, which is fine, as long as the 1.7 million does not get rewritten as volume or as TVL.
On-chain data
XRP price: about $1.05 at 00:00 UTC; late session near $1.03, low about $1.02 (CoinGecko)
Market cap: about $66.8B at the daily snapshot (CoinGecko)
24h volume: about $1.59B (CoinGecko)
Ankr public XRPL nodes: >1.7 million requests / 24 hours (XRPL Foundation, Nov 12)
History window: about two weeks (Ankr docs)
LendingProtocol: 22/35, not enabled (XRPSCAN)
Flows and macro
No same-day protocol change hit the tape. XRP is still working through a two-week decline from the mid-$1.20s. ETF flows remain the cleaner demand tell, and we did not have a complete Thursday print at deadline.
What to watch next
Whether the Foundation starts publishing a regular request series, not a one-off graphic
A split of those requests by mainnet / testnet and by method
The November 25 Testnet/Devnet reset
LendingProtocol votes, still short of 28
The XRPTRACER take
This is a useful adoption metric for public infrastructure, with honest limits attached: rate caps, two weeks of history, and a number that can be inflated by a few heavy clients. It does not move the XRP price, and it should not be sold as if it does. We've logged the 1.7 million print on the Catalyst Tracker. Price and amendment votes sit on the Dashboard.
Sources: XRPL Foundation on X, Nov 12 · Crypto.news: Ankr nodes top 1.7M daily requests · Ankr: public RPC live on XRP Ledger · CoinGecko XRP
Price is CoinGecko's daily snapshot at 00:00 UTC on November 12, 2026, with the session range from the same day's CoinGecko chart. Request count from the XRPL Foundation's November 12 update, as reported by Crypto.news.
Not investment advice. See our Disclaimer.
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