# \[RFP-11\] State of the network in terms of costs, scability, and power **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas\ **Created:** [May 7, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.pokt.network/t/rfp-11-state-of-the-network-in-terms-of-costs-scability-and-power/2873 "2022-05-07T22:03:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![poktblade](https://forum.pokt.network/user_avatar/forum.pokt.network/poktblade/32/903_2.png) [@poktblade](https://forum.pokt.network/u/poktblade)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.pokt.network/t/rfp-11-state-of-the-network-in-terms-of-costs-scability-and-power/2873/1 "2022-05-07T22:03:55Z")
The network has seen a tremendous growth in the past 5 months. We have gone from ~17500 staked nodes to 45000 nodes in the past of 5 months. There has been many concerns about our network being over-provisioned - but no true baseline that represents the state of our network right now. As we already know, relay chains can scale to quite the amount of RPS. I have been able to benchmark my ETH node to support anywhere from 20k-25k RPS on a EPYC 2nd gen processor with 8-16 cores, using [EthSpam](https://github.com/shazow/ethspam) and [Verus](https://github.com/INFURA/versus). I do not have any insights on how well a pocket node can scale in comparison. In order to make more informed and data driven decisions for our token economics, it’s worthwhile bench-marking the network or sampling our network by conducting a informal survey across the large node runners to provide a baseline. This will help as we would have a references and statistics in order to back our decisions for future proposals. This is a necessity to do before V1 given that it is a year or so out and I expect more proposals in regards to ABR/tuning WAGMI paramaters/buybacks to pop up. Some example statistics to collect - Cost to run a Pocket Node? - Own your server hardware? - RPS of your Pocket Node? - How many nodes do you place per chain?