diff --git a/cmd/soroban-rpc/internal/ingest/service.go b/cmd/soroban-rpc/internal/ingest/service.go
index aaacc867f..fab1cd2d7 100644
--- a/cmd/soroban-rpc/internal/ingest/service.go
+++ b/cmd/soroban-rpc/internal/ingest/service.go
@@ -232,18 +232,14 @@ func (s *Service) fillEntriesFromCheckpoint(ctx context.Context, archive history
 func (s *Service) ingest(ctx context.Context, sequence uint32) error {
 	startTime := time.Now()
 	s.logger.Infof("Ingesting ledger %d", sequence)
-	s.logger.Infof("Ingesting ledger %d (before GetLedger)", sequence)
 	ledgerCloseMeta, err := s.ledgerBackend.GetLedger(ctx, sequence)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	s.logger.Infof("Ingesting ledger %d (after GetLedger)", sequence)
-	s.logger.Infof("Ingesting ledger %d (before NewLedgerChangeReaderFromLedgerCloseMeta)", sequence)
 	reader, err := ingest.NewLedgerChangeReaderFromLedgerCloseMeta(s.networkPassPhrase, ledgerCloseMeta)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	s.logger.Infof("Ingesting ledger %d (before NexTx)", sequence)
 	tx, err := s.db.NewTx(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -253,12 +249,10 @@ func (s *Service) ingest(ctx context.Context, sequence uint32) error {
 			s.logger.WithError(err).Warn("could not rollback ingest write transactions")
 		}
 	}()
-	s.logger.Infof("Ingesting ledger %d (before ingestLedgerEntryChanges)", sequence)
 
 	if err := s.ingestLedgerEntryChanges(ctx, reader, tx, 0); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	s.logger.Infof("Ingesting ledger %d (before reader.Close)", sequence)
 	if err := reader.Close(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
diff --git a/cmd/soroban-rpc/internal/methods/send_transaction.go b/cmd/soroban-rpc/internal/methods/send_transaction.go
index 7af3ed350..1ec8dd53c 100644
--- a/cmd/soroban-rpc/internal/methods/send_transaction.go
+++ b/cmd/soroban-rpc/internal/methods/send_transaction.go
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package methods
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/hex"
-	"fmt"
 
 	"github.com/creachadair/jrpc2"
 	"github.com/creachadair/jrpc2/handler"
@@ -73,7 +72,6 @@ func NewSendTransactionHandler(daemon interfaces.Daemon, logger *log.Entry, stor
 		txHash := hex.EncodeToString(hash[:])
 
 		ledgerInfo := store.GetLatestLedger()
-		fmt.Printf("\n\n\nTX: %s\n\n\n", txHash)
 		resp, err := submitter.SubmitTransaction(ctx, request.Transaction)
 		if err != nil {
 			logger.WithError(err).
diff --git a/cmd/soroban-rpc/internal/test/core-start.sh b/cmd/soroban-rpc/internal/test/core-start.sh
index d5d999b47..9dd89ba64 100755
--- a/cmd/soroban-rpc/internal/test/core-start.sh
+++ b/cmd/soroban-rpc/internal/test/core-start.sh
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ if [ "$1" = "standalone" ]; then
   popd
 fi
 
-exec stellar-core run --console --ll debug
+exec stellar-core run --console