diff --git a/src/xrpld/app/ledger/InboundLedgers.h b/src/xrpld/app/ledger/InboundLedgers.h
index 97182644e7..e288201c66 100644
--- a/src/xrpld/app/ledger/InboundLedgers.h
+++ b/src/xrpld/app/ledger/InboundLedgers.h
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 #include <xrpld/app/main/Application.h>
 #include <xrpld/overlay/Peer.h>
 
-#include <xrpl/basics/ByteUtilities.h>
 #include <xrpl/basics/base_uint.h>
 #include <xrpl/beast/clock/abstract_clock.h>
 #include <xrpl/beast/insight/Collector.h>
@@ -21,36 +20,6 @@
 
 namespace xrpl {
 
-// Per-node cap for AS state leaves stashed via `gotStaleData`.
-//
-// `gotStaleData` only handles `liAS_NODE` payloads, which carry
-// SHAMap state-map leaves (ledger objects).
-//
-// Sizing: worst-case serialized size across all 31 ledger entry
-// types is ~53 KB (`XChainOwnedCreateAccountClaimID`, 256
-// attestations x ~209 B, capped by `kMaxAttestations` in
-// `include/xrpl/protocol/XChainAttestations.h`), followed by
-// `XChainOwnedClaimID` ~40 KB, `NFTokenPage` ~9.5 KB, and
-// `LedgerHashes` ~8.2 KB. 256 KiB leaves ~4.8x headroom over the
-// current worst case.
-//
-// Future-proofing: this cap is NOT derived from a single protocol
-// constant — it is a soft bound over independently-tuned caps
-// (`kMaxAttestations`, `kDirMaxTokensPerPage`, `kMaxTokenUriLength`,
-// etc.). Two types (`Amendments`, `NegativeUNL`) have no hard schema
-// cap and grow with network state. Revisit if a new object type or
-// a lifted array cap approaches ~256 KiB. The downstream
-// `SHAMapAccountStateLeafNode` construction rejects anything above
-// the 16 MiB SHAMapItem invariant regardless.
-inline constexpr std::size_t kMaxFetchPackNodeBytes = 256 * 1024;
-
-// Aggregate cap on the sum of `nodedata().size()` across all entries
-// in a single `TMLedgerData` message. Rejects amplification-shaped
-// payloads (many nodes, each individually under `kMaxFetchPackNodeBytes`,
-// that together dwarf the per-message budget) at ingress in PeerImp,
-// before dispatch into `InboundLedger::gotData` or `gotStaleData`.
-inline constexpr std::size_t kMaxLedgerDataBytes = megabytes(1);
-
 /**
  * Manages the lifetime of inbound ledgers.
  *
diff --git a/src/xrpld/app/ledger/detail/InboundLedgers.cpp b/src/xrpld/app/ledger/detail/InboundLedgers.cpp
index 81544fd234..dc361694cf 100644
--- a/src/xrpld/app/ledger/detail/InboundLedgers.cpp
+++ b/src/xrpld/app/ledger/detail/InboundLedgers.cpp
@@ -259,9 +259,6 @@ public:
                 if (!node.has_nodeid() || !node.has_nodedata())
                     return;
 
-                if (node.nodedata().size() > kMaxFetchPackNodeBytes)
-                    return;
-
                 auto newNode = SHAMapTreeNode::makeFromWire(makeSlice(node.nodedata()));
 
                 if (!newNode)
diff --git a/src/xrpld/overlay/detail/PeerImp.cpp b/src/xrpld/overlay/detail/PeerImp.cpp
index 0b969792ba..962ab0f408 100644
--- a/src/xrpld/overlay/detail/PeerImp.cpp
+++ b/src/xrpld/overlay/detail/PeerImp.cpp
@@ -1699,19 +1699,6 @@ PeerImp::onMessage(std::shared_ptr<protocol::TMLedgerData> const& m)
         return;
     }
 
-    {
-        std::size_t totalNodeBytes = 0;
-        for (int i = 0; i < m->nodes_size(); ++i)
-            totalNodeBytes += m->nodes(i).nodedata().size();
-        if (totalNodeBytes > kMaxLedgerDataBytes)
-        {
-            JLOG(pJournal_.warn())
-                << "Ledger data: oversized nodes (" << totalNodeBytes << " bytes)";
-            fee_.update(Resource::kFeeInvalidData, "oversized ledger nodes");
-            return;
-        }
-    }
-
     // If there is a request cookie, attempt to relay the message
     if (m->has_requestcookie())
     {