Payments
XRPL proved it can handle over 3,000 transactions, but the traffic was entirely synthetic
The XRPL cleared consensus, but 2,000 one-drop payments from 20 accounts and tiny fee burn limit the adoption case.
Liam 'Akiba' Wright 3 min read
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