# XRP Ledger Foundation Says Ankr Nodes Handle 1.7 Million Daily Requests By Simon Yoon Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/55947 Published: 2026-11-12T21:55:58.000Z Updated: 2026-11-12T21:55:58.000Z Section: Technology > The Nov. 12 figure counts calls to public infrastructure, not completed payments or distinct developers. Ankr’s service launched with 43 supported methods. The XRP Ledger Foundation said Nov. 12 that Ankr’s free public nodes handled more than 1.7 million developer requests per 24 hours, a measure of infrastructure traffic rather than completed payments or distinct developers. The update did not specify a measurement cutoff or the exact period covered. It also did not divide the requests between mainnet and testnet, or by request type, application or developer. The total therefore does not show how many people or products used the service. Ankr launched its public remote procedure call (RPC) service for the XRP Ledger on Aug. 3, 2026. It gives developers access to mainnet and testnet without requiring them to run their own nodes. At launch, the service supported 43 methods. Those methods let applications retrieve account and ledger information, simulate transactions and submit them. An RPC request is a message software sends to a node to interact with a blockchain. Some requests retrieve information; others involve transactions, so the daily count is not a payment tally. That distinction separates the Foundation’s figure from on-ledger payment volume, which measures XRP transfers between accounts. The two metrics track different activity, as shown in [Nov. 11 coverage of XRP Ledger payment volume](). Ankr’s full nodes retain about two weeks of ledger history, or roughly 360,000 to 380,000 ledgers. Requests for older data fail, and deeper historical queries require an archive or explorer service. The free public endpoints are best-effort, subject to rate limits and carry no contractual uptime commitment. ## Links in this article - [Nov. 11 coverage of XRP Ledger payment volume](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/53625)