The XRP Ledger processed a record 3,254 transactions in ledger 106,965,249 yesterday, but 2,000 of the news came from just 20 accounts sending identical 1-drop payments, each worth one-millionth of an XRP.
The new high overtook two earlier single-ledger marks of 2,713 and 2,768 transactions, both set within a day of the record. At least 890 transactions failed with tec result codes but still burned fees, and the 20-account batch alone paid about 0.04 XRP in fees while moving just 0.002 XRP.
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Twenty Wallets, One Ledger
Ledger 106,965,249 closed on Sunday, Sept. 13, holding 3,254 transactions, a number far outside the normal range for the network. A scan of 7,600 consecutive ledgers from 18:00 UTC on Sept. 13 to 02:00 UTC on Sept. 14 found 638,801 transactions in total, an average of about 84 per ledger, with only 43 ledgers in that window topped 2,000 transactions, and only the record ledger cleared 2,800.
Twenty accounts sent exactly 100 transactions each, contributing 2,000 of the 3,254 total, and every one was a 1-drop payment. Combined, that batch moved just 0.002 XRP, less than a cent at current prices, while each transaction paid a 20-drop fee, meaning the group burned roughly five cents in aggregate to generate a transaction record with effectively zero economic transfer.
The remaining activity was more typical of ordinary XRP Ledger usage: 458 OfferCreate orders on the built-in decentralized exchange, 229 ticket creations, 74 check cashes, and 22 trust-line changes.
At least 890 transactions in the ledger failed outright with tec result codes, mostly payments whose paths ran dry or fill-or-kill orders that could not be filled. Daily XRPL activity stayed above 2 million transactions through early September, according to the report, peaking at 2.572 million on Sept. 3, so the concentrated 1-drop batch stands out as an anomaly rather than a continuation of a broader adoption trend.
As wallet concentration has shown elsewhere on XRP, a small cluster of addresses can distort network statistics without reflecting a shift in genuine demand.
Hussein Zangana, the XRP Ledger Foundation’s community director known as Vet on X, flagged the news in a public post and said the pattern most likely reflected throughput testing, noting that simple XRP payments place a very low load on the network. He did not identify who was behind the batch.
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XRP News: Why The Fees Didn’t Spike?
Under XRPL’s own transaction-result documentation, a tec failure still destroys the XRP paid as a transaction cost and consumes a sequence number, even though the underlying action never completes. That means failed payments and unfilled offers padded the ledger’s transaction count without delivering any successful transfer, inflating the record’s headline number relative to its actual economic content.
The ledger absorbed the load without a fee spike because XRPL uses dynamic size limits rather than fixed block caps like Bitcoin. The network’s soft limit rises when a ledger contains more transactions than expected and falls if consensus takes longer than five seconds, and early Monday, the expected ledger size sat at 3,082 transactions with the open-ledger fee still at the 10-drop minimum.
A small sliver of the record ledger pointed to more substantive use: eight transactions carried memos from t54 labs’ x402 facilitator, the tool that lets AI agents pay for services in XRP and RLUSD, following the network’s milestone of 1 million AI agent transactions in July.
For traders, the takeaway is straightforward: a transaction record is not the same as a demand signal. The event is best read alongside other XRP catalysts this month that carry more direct implications for price, since whale-driven or bot-driven network activity has repeatedly diverged from actual buying pressure on XRP.
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