Debates flare up over blockchain TPS in testing environments
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Today, enjoy the Lightspeed newsletter on Blockworks.co. Tomorrow, get the news delivered directly to your inbox. Subscribe to the Lightspeed newsletter. Crypto’s chattering class has been beefing over transactions per second (TPS) lately, a metric that’s often used in the abstract to demonstrate a blockchain’s throughput. Solana boasts a higher TPS than its main rival, Ethereum. The most recent social media go-round was ignited by the news that Firedancer, a high-performance client being developed by Jump Crypto and meant to push Solana’s TPS lead even further, had entered its testnet phase. Jump chief scientist Kevin Bowers said in a Solana Breakpoint talk that Firedancer had hit 1 million TPS in synthetic testing. A crypto VC then posted about Solana shipping a “1m tps client” while the Ethereum world was consumed in archaic debates about “whether eth is money,” and the engagement bait went down hook, line, and sinker. Namik Muduroglu, part of the founding team for the yet-unreleased layer-2 MegaETH, posted a GitHub screenshot noting that the Solana protocol is currently limited to around 81,000 TPS at a maximum and that MegaETH’s block times would be shorter than Solana’s, meaning transactions could be processed some milliseconds faster. Solana folks shot back, arguing that the 81,000 TPS parameter can be changed and pointing out that MegaETH is, to paraphrase Chris Brown, hating from outside the [existent blockchain] club. As an idea, TPS is pretty easy to grok — how many transactions can a blockchain process every second? One million is a nice, large, round number, but things get more complicated in practice. For one, TPS is often cited aspirationally. Firedancer’s 1 million TPS came in a testing environment, without actual user transactions. Unreleased blockchains Monad and Layer N also drew media coverage for TPS numbers that came in testing. Solana’s own TPS…
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