The foundation launched the infrastructure with Ankr on Aug. 3. At the time, Ankr said its nodes were located in New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Singapore, with traffic routed among them. Its service supports 43 methods for retrieving account and ledger information, submitting transactions and checking payment paths, among other tasks. Developers can also simulate transactions before submitting them.
Ankr’s public portal lists mainnet.xrpl-rpc.com for the live network and testnet.xrpl-rpc.com for testing. The free tier supports standard JSON-RPC methods, with best-effort availability and a community rate limit applied per IP address. Paid plans offer higher throughput, dedicated keys and service commitments.
Ankr’s documentation says its full nodes retain roughly two weeks of ledger history, or about 360,000 to 380,000 ledgers. Requests for older data fall outside that window; applications needing deeper records are directed to an archive or explorer service. The XRPL server directory also lists public connections from Ripple, InFTF and Honeycluster, including providers with full ledger history. It warns that Ripple’s public servers may become unavailable and are not intended for sustained or business use.
Separately, security firm Blockaid reported an Ankr Ethereum bridge exploit on Nov. 9 involving five unauthorized withdrawals and more than $303,000 in priced assets. Blockaid said an Optimism deposit was used to withdraw assets after it had already been redeemed, with modified withdrawal details. The initial report did not establish that Ankr’s RPC infrastructure or personal wallets were compromised. Ankr had not responded to questions about affected services or possible reimbursements by the report’s publication time.
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