David Schwartz, Ripple CTO Emeritus and one of the original architects of the XRP Ledger, explained that the T-shirt featuring a speedometer was commissioned to commemorate the network reaching 100 transactions per second. It was ordered when XRP traded at around $0.30 but was not delivered until the token reached $1. This timing led members of the XRP community to interpret the “100” as a potential $100 price for XRP. The XRPL sustained 80 transactions per second during performance testing in February 2015 before improving to 1,500 transactions per second in July 2017, a level the article says it has maintained since.
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