Tectum claims 1M+ TPS
Tectum’s infrastructure was reported to achieve more than 1 million transactions per second in testing—peaking at 3.5 million TPS—positioning it as a high‑throughput blockchain designed for large financial activity. The claim was presented as an alternative ledger for workloads that legacy systems struggle to handle. (x.com)
A blockchain is a shared ledger, like a database copied across many computers, and its bottleneck is usually how many transfers it can record each second. Tectum says its network cleared more than 1 million transactions per second in testing and peaked at 3,502,702. (tectum.io) Tectum published the 3.5 million figure after a March 13, 2024 test that it said processed 51,367,124 transactions in 14.66 seconds across 8 nodes. The company said the run was livestreamed and described it as the final phase of a broader throughput test. (newsfilecorp.com) The company’s website now says Tectum 4.0 mainnet is live and repeats the claim that its blockchain exceeds 3.5 million transactions per second using what it calls Proof-of-Utility consensus. Its 2025 roadmap also lists a “Live TPS World Record Event,” testnet code on GitHub, and validator-node tooling. (tectum.io, tectum.io, github.com) Tectum’s payment product, SoftNote, works more like handing over a loaded digital bill than sending coins one by one. The company says users transfer wallet ownership tied to assets inside the note, which it says avoids congestion on the underlying blockchain and keeps user fees at zero while merchant fees are capped at 1%. (softnote.com) That design helps explain what Tectum says it was measuring. In the test report, the company said it used SoftNote transfers rather than simple token transfers because SoftNote is meant to handle both crypto and fiat-linked use cases. (newsfilecorp.com) Speed claims matter in crypto because public blockchains have long traded off three goals at once: decentralization, security, and scale. Researchers and industry explain that tension as the “blockchain trilemma,” a term popularized by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. (sciencedirect.com, theblock.co) Tectum’s own white paper says the network has “a single point of blockchain formation” through a Key Archiver, and says consensus is achieved through validators, archivers, and that key component. That language points to a design with more coordination than the fully open validator sets used by some larger chains. (tectum.io) Independent benchmarking is still thin. Chainspect, a site that tracks blockchain performance metrics, lists Tectum as “Not Listed” and shows no data for real-time transactions per second, max transactions per second, block time, finality, or launch date. (chainspect.app) The comparison point Tectum uses is traditional payments scale. SoftNote’s site says 3.5 million transactions per second is more than 5,000% faster than Visa, while Visa says it analyzes data on up to 83,000 transactions per second and processed 303 billion payments and cash transactions in fiscal 2024, or about 829 million per day on average. (softnote.com, visa.com, q4cdn.com) What Tectum has shown so far is a company-run test, a live mainnet claim, and public software for node operators. What it has not yet shown in widely tracked public datasets is the kind of third-party measurement that would let the rest of the industry compare its 3.5 million figure on equal terms. (newsfilecorp.com, tectum.io, chainspect.app)
