The XRP Ledger’s throughput of 1,500 transactions per second was voluntarily compared with Visa’s average of roughly 8,100 to 8,500 transactions per second, while the payment network’s technical capacity reaches 65,000 to more than 83,000 transactions per second. An XRP Ledger Foundation expert estimated that batch settlement is better suited to institutional transactions, while payment channels are more appropriate for micropayments. He added that artificial intelligence could drive a sharp increase in throughput for not only the XRP Ledger but also other layer-1 blockchains. However, the article provides no new performance measurement or timeline for that scaling.
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