Celestia says its new payment chain hit 21 million transactions per second. On one CPU core. On one node.
Voyager, unveiled Oct. 29, is built for AI agents paying per web request, and publishes everything to the Fibre data layer that went live Oct. 19. The benchmark: random transfers between 100 million accounts, averaging 21.2M TPS over five hours, roughly 400 billion transfers.
The fine print is Celestia's own. The test measured a single node that doesn't yet compute state roots, replicate data to other machines, or serve real-time status queries at that volume. Those are "next."
The record is real. So far it's also a record for a blockchain with nobody else in it.