According to Blockworks, the debate over transactions per second (TPS) has been heating up within the crypto community, especially between Solana and Ethereum. Solana, known for its higher TPS than Ethereum, recently saw its high-performance client, Firedancer, developed by Jump Crypto, enter the testnet phase. Jump Crypto’s chief scientist, Kevin Powers, announced during his Solana Breakpoint talk that Firedancer had achieved 1 million TPS in synthetic testing.
The announcement sparked a discussion on social media, with one crypto investor highlighting Solana’s progress while comparing it to the ongoing discussions around Ethereum. Namik Muduroglu, part of the founding team of upcoming layer 2 solution MegaETH, shared a screenshot from GitHub indicating that the Solana protocol is currently capped at around 81,000 TPS. Muduroglu also noted that MegaETH aims to have shorter block times than Solana, which could result in transactions being processed milliseconds faster. Solana supporters responded by saying that the 81,000 TPS limit is adjustable and criticized MegaETH for hanging onto an existing blockchain while it remains unpublished.
TPS, which measures the number of transactions a blockchain can process per second, is often used ambitiously. Firedancer achieved 1 million TPS in a test environment with no actual user transactions. Other unpublished blockchains such as Monad and Layer N have also reported high TPS numbers in testing.
