Base briefly nears 1,000 TPS, making it speed competitive with Solana
The post Base briefly nears 1,000 TPS, making it speed competitive with Solana appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Coinbase’s layer-2 blockchain Base briefly saw the number of transactions it processed per second near 1,000, bringing it closer to the performance of layer-1 blockchain Solana. On May 29, Base creator Jesse Pollak said on X that Base had sustained near 1,000 transactions per second (TPS) during a launch on the agentic artificial intelligence platform Virtuals. The Ethereum scaling blockchain hit a maximum of 959 transactions a second and has a theoretical maximum of 1,429 TPS, according to Chainspect. However, its real-time TPS is around 156, and these spikes are driven by other platforms launching tokens on Base or memecoin trading frenzies. Basescan reports a current TPS of 137 for the network. Base throughput on May 29. Source: Jesse Pollak Comparatively, Solana’s throughput is currently 1,039 transactions per second, according to Chainspect, which strips out data such as vote transactions. Solscan reports a similar figure of “true TPS” at 1,029. Base’s brief transaction throughput put it much closer to Solana for a time, but the latter has remained more consistent with its TPS. The Virtuals AI agent platform had a token launch event this week for what it called an “emotionally intelligent, voice-native AI companion” named Solace. According to DeFillama, the Virtuals Protocol generated more than $60,000 in fees on Base on May 28, compared to just $4,000 on Solana. There was a spike in Base fees on May 29, but the average was still around 4 cents, according to Dune Analytics. Related: Base creator Jesse Pollak admits ‘Base is for pimping’ art was a mistake Base is the largest rollup-based layer-2 network in terms of value locked onchain, with $15.3 billion, according to L2beat. It has now surpassed both Arbitrum One and the OP mainnet and has a market share of almost 34%. Solana leads on DeFi TVL Both…
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Coinbase’s layer-2 blockchain Base briefly saw the number of transactions it processed per second near 1,000, bringing it closer to the performance of layer-1 blockchain Solana. On May 29, Base creator Jesse Pollak said on X that Base had sustained near 1,000 transactions per second (TPS) during a launch on the agentic artificial intelligence platform Virtuals. The Ethereum scaling blockchain hit a maximum of 959 transactions a second and has a theoretical maximum of 1,429 TPS, according to Chainspect. However, its real-time TPS is around 156, and these spikes are driven by other platforms launching tokens on Base or memecoin trading frenzies. Basescan reports a current TPS of 137 for the network. Base throughput on May 29. Source: Jesse Pollak Comparatively, Solana’s throughput is currently 1,039 transactions per second, according to Chainspect, which strips out data such as vote transactions. Solscan reports a similar figure of “true TPS” at 1,029. Base’s brief transaction throughput put it much closer to Solana for a time, but the latter has remained more consistent with its TPS. The Virtuals AI agent platform had a token launch event this week for what it called an “emotionally intelligent, voice-native AI companion” named Solace. According to DeFillama, the Virtuals Protocol generated more than $60,000 in fees on Base on May 28, compared to just $4,000 on Solana. There was a spike in Base fees on May 29, but the average was still around 4 cents, according to Dune Analytics. Related: Base creator Jesse Pollak admits ‘Base is for pimping’ art was a mistake Base is the largest rollup-based layer-2 network in terms of value locked onchain, with $15.3 billion, according to L2beat. It has now surpassed both Arbitrum One and the OP mainnet and has a market share of almost 34%. Solana leads on DeFi TVL Both…
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