Polkadot's scalable architecture handled 143K TPS using a fraction of total capacity.
VISA averaged 7.4K TPS last year, per its annual report.
Web3 for the world is here. Humans need only use it.
In 2024, Visa processed 234 billion transactions.
That works out to 7.4k TPS on average.
Polkadot did 100k+ during the Spammening.
The takeaway: resilience and scalability are not mutually exclusive.
Sure, it's easier to do massive TPS if the entire chain is hosted by a single provider.
But then why bother with Web3?
A breakdown of how Polkadot scales without sacrificing its Web3 principles ⤵️
Parallel Execution: app-specific rollups run in parallel + process their own txns, enabling high throughput.
Dynamic Resource Allocation: rollups can acquire more compute power (coretime) as needed with Elastic Scaling, reducing latency during high demand.
While Agile Coretime makes the network more efficient by allowing apps to scale up or down based only on resources they use.
Shared Security: All rollups benefit from shared security so new chains don't have to bootstrap their own security, allowing for rapid deployment and scaling without security tradeoffs.
This isn't theoretical either.
@kusamanetwork, Polkadot's sister network, hit 143k TPS in the wild using just a fraction of its capacity with the same tech.
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