Clarifying Critical Misconceptions Surrounding Ripple’s AMM and XRP Ledger Performance

Ripple CTO Clears Up Critical AMM Misconception

In a recent statement, David Schwartz, Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), has clarified a critical misconception surrounding the Average Message Latency (AMM) and its potential impact on the overall performance of the XRP Ledger.

For those who may not be familiar with these terms, let me explain. AMM represents the average time taken by a node to process messages, which is a crucial metric in evaluating the throughput capacity of a blockchain network. In this context, Ripple’s XRP Ledger is designed to optimize its throughput capacity by increasing TPS (Transactions Per Second).

However, Mr. Schwartz’s statement reveals that increased TPS might lead to higher costs for bandwidth, storage, and computing power for all participants. This increase in costs could result in fewer people finding it worthwhile to run a node, thereby reducing the overall node count.

A lower node count means more users would have to rely on others’ nodes, which, as mentioned earlier, diminishes decentralization – a core principle of blockchain technology.

Source: u.today