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I came across an interesting study about the speed of different blockchains. It turns out that when looking at actual TPS, the picture is quite different from marketing promises. Solana clearly leads — its network shows about 1050 transactions per second, making it the fastest blockchain among major players. In second place is Sui with 854 TPS, followed by BSC with 378.
What surprised me is how far behind EVM chains are. Polygon, Arbitrum, Ethereum — all are noticeably slower than non-EVM networks. BSC, although EVM-compatible, stays in the top 3 fastest due to optimization. Gnosis is at the bottom with 65 TPS, which is completely incomparable to the leaders.
An interesting point is that Solana, despite its speed, uses only 1.6% of its theoretical potential of 65,000 TPS. It turns out that even the fastest blockchain can be much faster in reality if the network grows. TON and Near also showed good results, approximately 175 and 118 TPS respectively.
Overall, if you look at the top 10, non-EVM networks clearly dominate. This confirms that architecture really matters for performance. The data is from 2024, but the principle remains the same.