@SuiNetwork has set a new benchmark in blockchain throughput, recording 40,614,180 transactions per second during a live stress test held at Sui Basecamp in Singapore on October 7. The result
@SuiNetwork has set a new benchmark in blockchain throughput, recording 40,614,180 transactions per second during a live stress test held at Sui Basecamp in Singapore on October 7. The result was independently verified by @CertiK, which served as auditor for the event, examining all associated data including proofs, execution logs, and journals before publishing a full report.
The Basecamp result is more than six times the 6,086,766 TPS record $SUI set on July 4, with both figures measured inside Sui tunnels. That earlier mark was itself a landmark, achieved during a public livestream involving AI agents. The October figure also more than doubles the engineering team's internal target of 20 million transactions per second.
The test was conducted on the Summit Stage at Sui Basecamp, the network's annual flagship conference, held this year alongside Token2049 Singapore, and was designed to prove the network's resilience and speed under the extreme capacity demands of AI agents and machine commerce.The test was run by Adeniyi Abiodun, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder at Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui.
The headline number is driven by a feature called Sui tunnels. The 40,614,180 TPS was achieved via Sui tunnels, which were introduced during the previous record-setting livestream on July 4. Similar to Lightning Network's off-chain payment channels, Sui tunnels settle to Sui mainnet when closed, and every closed tunnel is mutually cosigned and independently verifiable on-chain, combining high throughput with cryptographic proof that no transaction can be tampered with.
The 40 million figure reflects what the tunnel architecture can handle with on-chain settlement behind it, not a claim that every one of those transactions was individually written to the base layer as it occurred.More than 10,000 tunnels were opened on Sui mainnet within seconds during the test.
The broader ambition behind the demonstration is positioning $SUI as infrastructure for what the team calls agentic finance. Abiodun said: "In an agentic economy, Sui doesn't need to process every interaction. It needs to be the trust layer for all of them," adding that "no market in the world needs 6 million transactions per second, let alone 40 million: people just don't move that fast. Agents do."
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