Zama hits 230 TPS confidential stablecoin transfers - on track to surpass Solana with 1,000 TPS in the coming months 1. Zama’s Milestone - In just three years, Zama has gone from 0.1 TPS (2022) to 230 TPS (2025) for confidential stablecoin transfers. - This is not a lab benchmark but a real-world use case, measuring the most common DeFi transaction: stablecoin transfers. - This matters because FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption) was long considered too slow to be practical. - Transactions could take seconds or even minutes. Now, at 230 TPS, FHE is not only usable, but already faster than many live blockchains ( ETH and most Layer2) - And this is just the beginning. With ongoing GPU optimizations, Zama is expected to hit ~1,000 TPS within months - putting confidential blockchain performance on par with, and soon above, even high-performance networks like Solana. 2. Let's take a look at TPS Comparisons (realtime vs Zama) - Ethereum L1: 20 TPS < 230 - Base (L2): 148 TPS < 230 - BNB Chain: 199 TPS < 230 - Tron: 135 TPS < 230 - Stellar: 94 TPS < 230 - Solana: 934 TPS < 1k -> Zama will surpass once it reaches 1,000 TPS in the coming months. And 2025 will scale up to Solana - ICP: 1,154 TPS > 1k -> still higher today, but Zama is closing in fast. - NEAR: 49 TPS < 230 - Aptos: 44 TPS < 230 3. And here is Monad: Claim vs reality - Claim: 10k TPS (some marketing even hinted at 100k). - Reality : <100 TPS < 230. - Check yourself at: - Gap: at least x100 between marketing hype and actual performance. - Even Monad - heavily marketed for performance - delivers less than Zama’s current throughput. - The difference is clear: Zama avoids inflated claims, instead publishing real benchmarks with a concrete roadmap: 230 -> 1,000 -> 100k TPS. 4. Why this milestone matters 🔸 Breaking the “FHE is too slow” myth 🔹 Once an academic concept, FHE is now fast enough to compete with production blockchains. 🔹 This proves privacy and performance are no longer mutually exclusive. 🔸Already ahead of many chains 🔹At 230 TPS, Zama outpaces Base, BNB, Tron, Stellar, NEAR, Aptos. 🔹Confidential blockchain has now reached parity with mainstream networks. 🔸Stablecoin transfers are just one case 🔹230 TPS comes from a stablecoin transfer benchmark. 🔹Simpler operations (ACL, boolean ops) can run even faster. 🔹Heavier workloads (ML, AI on encrypted data) are improving dramatically as well. 5. Roadmap & the path forward - 2025 (today): 230 TPS with optimized GPU. - Late 2025 – early 2026: ~1,000 TPS -> surpass Solana, approach ICP. - 2029: 100k TPS with custom ASIC -> enough to cover Visa, Mastercard, and SWIFT combined. This is not just about speed. It’s about turning FHE into the backbone of global payments infrastructure, where every transaction is both on-chain and confidential. Bottom Line: - Zama has proven a simple truth: FHE is no longer too slow. - From 0.1 TPS (2022) → 230 TPS (2025) → 1,000 TPS (by year-end). - Already ahead of most L2s and many L1s. - Soon to surpass Solana, close in on ICP, and move toward a level that can rival traditional payment rails. While other projects (like Monad) market eye-catching numbers in the tens of thousands but deliver only a fraction in practice, Zama shows the opposite: real data, proven progress, and a credible roadmap. That’s the difference between marketing hype and engineering reality - and why Zama is reshaping the future of confidential blockchain. @zama_fhe @not_zama_intern #ZamaCreatorProgram