In a recent tweet, Ripple CTO David Schwartz hinted at what he considers to be the most useful addition to the XRP Ledger network. A high quality hub with invalid hubs running XRPL applications, other hubs, and reserved slots for servers.
This insight has acknowledged that Schwartz has not personally run the XRPL infrastructure in recent years, but now he has seen unique opportunities to contribute.
“I haven’t run the XRPL infrastructure myself within a few years. Looking at the network, it seems that the most useful one is a high quality hub with reservation slots for disabled people, other hubs, servers that provide applications with XRPL,” says Schwartz.
I haven’t run my XRPL infrastructure myself within a few years. Looking at the network, it appears that the most useful one is a high quality hub with invalid hubs, reserved slots for servers, providing applications in XRPL. Personally, this isn’t me
– David ‘Joelkatz’ Schwartz (@Joelkatz) August 2, 2025
Ripple CTO shared current plans to deploy “AMD 9950X CPU, 256GB of RAM, 2TB boot SATA SSD, 2x2TB NVME SSDS (S/W RAID 0), NUDB, and 10GB (minor) links.” The server runs Ubuntu LTE and is housed in a data center in NYC.
The server runs as a production service to maximize uptime and reliability. Schwartz emphasized the initiative as his project, with no official connection to Ripple.
Despite the impressive specifications of the server, Ripple CTO points out a flaw that appears to be in the server setup. It relies on a single hub. But this is not without a reason. Schwartz explained that he wanted to collect data from it to understand how the network works and performance, but no destructive testing would be done unless there were very unusual circumstances that justify it.
Advances in XRP ledgers
Crypto Data Platform Dune recently shared an update on XRP Ledger’s progress over the past month.
XRP Ledger recorded 70 million new transactions last month, bringing it to 3.83 billion. Last week alone, 13.5 million transactions were added, with an average of 1.8 million transactions per day.
XRPL is evolving as a global Stablecoin settlement. In July, Broza Bank issued a $4.2 million BBRL, but daily RLUSD transactions increased from around 5,000 to over 12,000 in a month.