Community experts rated How long does it take for the XRP Ledger (XRPL) to write 1 million XRP if it runs continuously? processed 1,500 transactions per second.
Community member Andy published this review while talking recent comments from Jake Claver, CEO of Digital Ascension Group. Based on his valuation, it will take up to 21 years for XRPL to burn $1 million XRP 1,500 transactions per second processed nonstop. However, the exact numbers are put that in 2.1 years.
XRPL needs to scale to meet global demand
For context, Claver recently called attention to the scalability capabilities of the XRP Ledger. In its current form, XRPL processes about 1,500 transactions per second, he said. This referred to official disclosure figures. But while this is still great, Claver believes it’s not enough to support true global transaction volumes.
The XRP Ledger can currently process approximately 1,500 transactions per second. This is not enough to achieve truly global volumes. A full-scale implementation would require subnets, payment channels, etc., but I can see how that would look.
— Jake Claver, QFOP (@beyond_broke) December 27, 2025
By achieving full-scale implementation, request Additional scaling solutions, especially technology Add subnets, payment channels, etc. as needed in the next step. Claver added that he already has ideas about how such a solution could be realized. especially, Previous reports suggested TPS increases to 3,400.
XRPL writing function
Meanwhile, in response to Claver’s comments, Andy shifted A conversation is made to the XRPL writer function, which leads to another function. deflation theory. Official numbers suggest that XRPL can process 1,500 transactions per second, but the network is not necessarily capable of doing so. handle Non-stop at this speed.
According to Andy, even with XRPL, Do you want to process it? 1,500 transactions per second consistentlyconsidering a burn rate of 1 drop (or 0.000001 XRP) per transaction, you will only burn 0.0015 XRP tokens per second. Specifically, this means that 1 XRP will be burned every 11 minutes, and 10 XRP tokens will be burned every 1.8 hours. Basically, it will take 21 years to burn 1 million XRP at this pace.
How long does it take to burn 1 million XRP
But his assessment had one detail wrong. That’s the burn rate per transaction. Specifically, XRPL burns 0.00001 XRP (or 10 drops) per transaction instead of 0.000001. This would require 100,000 transactions to burn one entire XRP token. As a result, if XRPL consistently processed 1,500 transactions per second, it would take 1.11 minutes to write 1 XRP.
At this rate, the XRP Ledger will burn 10 XRP in 11 minutes, 100 XRP within 1 hour, 51 minutes. Basically, it takes 2.11 years for the network to actually burn 1 million XRP instead of 21 years. Notably, at the right pace, XRPL will burn 9.95 million XRP tokens in 21 years. Since its launch, XRPL has consumed 14,267,000 XRP due to a certain spike in the number of transactions and costs.
Despite the reassessment, most XRP community members still believe this is significantly lower than it has been in 21 years. However, this is expected since the original XRPL architects did not design the burn rate to induce scarcity, but to reduce spam. Even Andy agreed We think the price of XRP is more likely to rise due to ETF demand than burn.
