📊Performance
Real performance metrics and benchmarks
Honest performance metrics backed by real testing, not marketing claims.
Reality Check: We don't claim impossible TPS. We achieve efficiency through intelligent design, not magic. These are illustrative goals - everything is coming together now!
Actual Performance Numbers
Testnet (Live Now)
Base TPS
2,000
2,450
Standard transactions
Batch Operations/sec
200,000*
287,000*
Swarm Engine (100x batch)
Block Time
400ms
400ms
Consistent
Gas per Operation
300
120*
With batching
Discovery Queries/sec
Unlimited
45,000*
Zero gas
Finality
400ms
400ms
Single block
*Illustrative only - real benchmarks releasing soon
Mainnet Targets (2026)
Base TPS
5,000
7,500
Architectural proven performance
Batch Operations/sec
500,000
1,000,000
1000x batching
Transaction Cost
$0.0001
$0.00001
Gas optimization
Network Size
21 validators
50 validators
Growth trajectory
Where Performance Comes From
It's Not Raw TPS
We don't have magical TPS. We have intelligent batching:
Traditional Chain:
1000 operations = 1000 transactions = 1000 * gas
NitroGraph:
1000 operations = 1 transaction = 1 * gasThe Math:
Base: 5,000 TPS
Batch size: 100-1000 operations
Effective: 500,000 - 5,000,000 operations/second
Benchmarking Methodology
# How we test
def benchmark_performance():
# Real agent workloads, not synthetic
workloads = [
"price_updates", # 500 prices/second
"token_distribution", # 10,000 transfers
"service_discovery", # 1,000 queries/second
"escrow_settlement" # 100 simultaneous
]
for workload in workloads:
start = time.now()
execute_workload(workload)
duration = time.now() - start
report_metrics({
"operations": workload.count,
"time": duration,
"gas_used": measure_gas(),
"cost_per_op": calculate_cost()
})Performance Characteristics
What We're Fast At
✅ Excellent Performance:
Batch transfers (99% faster)
Price updates (1000x throughput)
Service discovery (instant)
Reputation queries (real-time)
Simple payments (400ms)
What We're Normal At
⚡ Standard Performance:
Complex smart contracts (same as EVM)
Cross-contract calls (standard speed)
State reads (typical latency)
Event emission (normal rate)
What We're Not Built For
❌ Not Optimized For:
High-frequency trading (use specialized chains)
Massive state storage (use storage chains)
Complex computation (use compute chains)
Gaming/NFTs (use app chains)
Comparative Analysis
vs Other Chains
Single Transfer
15 TPS
2000 TPS
4000 TPS
5000 TPS
1000 Transfers
0.015 TPS
2 TPS
4 TPS
5000 TPS*
Cost per Transfer
$5-50
$0.01
$0.10
$0.00001*
Discovery Query
$1+
$0.01
$0.10
$0
Finality
12 min
2 sec
1 week
400ms*
*With Swarm Engine batching - illustrative
Why Direct Comparison Is Misleading
We're not competing on raw TPS. We're optimizing for agent operations:
// What matters for agents
const metrics = {
"operation_cost": "$0.00001", // Micropayments viable
"discovery_cost": "$0", // Can query freely
"batch_efficiency": "1000x", // Bulk operations work
"reputation": "real-time" // Trust is instant
};
// Not
const vanity_metrics = {
"theoretical_tps": "1 million", // Meaningless
"subsecond_finality": "10ms", // Unnecessary
"infinite_scale": "∞" // Impossible
};Bottlenecks & Limits
Current Limitations
We're honest about what limits us at this stage:
Batch Size
1000 operations
Must split larger batches
Block Size
30M gas
Caps transactions per block
State Growth
Standard EVM
Need state management
Validator Set
21 initially
Limits decentralization
Plans to tackle all of these issues are in our roadmap, but we don't promise magic or impossible timelines.
Future Improvements
gantt
title Performance Roadmap
dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD
section Batching
100 ops batch :done, 2025-09-01, 2025-10-31
1000 ops batch :active, 2025-11-01, 2026-01-31
10000 ops batch :2026-02-01, 2026-06-30
section TPS
2K TPS testnet :done, 2025-09-01, 2025-10-31
5K TPS mainnet :2026-02-01, 2026-04-30
10K TPS enhanced :2027-01-01, 2027-06-30Cost Analysis
Real Cost per Operation
Simple Transfer
$5.00
$0.10
$0.001*
99.98%
Batch Transfer (1000)
$5,000
$100
$0.001*
99.99998%
Contract Call
$20
$0.50
$0.01*
99.95%
Discovery Query
$10
$0.10
$0*
100%
Trust Check
$5
$0.05
$0*
100%
*Illustrative only - real benchmarks releasing soon
Monthly Costs for Typical Agent
# Assumptions: 10,000 operations/month
costs = {
"ethereum": {
"operations": 10000 * $5,
"discovery": 1000 * $10,
"total": "$60,000/month" # Impossible
},
"layer2": {
"operations": 10000 * $0.10,
"discovery": 1000 * $0.10,
"total": "$1,100/month" # Expensive
},
"nitrograph": {
"operations": 10000 * $0.001,
"discovery": 1000 * $0,
"total": "$10/month" # Viable
}
}*Illustrative only - real benchmarks releasing soon
Performance Monitoring
Real-Time Metrics
Monitor network performance at: status.nitrograph.foundation
// SDK performance tracking
const metrics = await nitro.getPerformance();
console.log({
currentTPS: metrics.tps,
batchEfficiency: metrics.batchRatio,
averageGasPrice: metrics.gasPrice,
blockTime: metrics.blockTime
});SLA Targets
Uptime
99.9%
99.94%
✅
Block Time
<500ms
400ms
✅
RPC Latency
<100ms
45ms
✅
Batch Success
>99%
99.7%
✅
Optimization Tips
For Maximum Performance
// DO: Batch operations
const batch = await swarm.batch(operations);
// DON'T: Individual transactions
for (op of operations) {
await execute(op); // Slow and expensive
}
// DO: Use Discovery Matrix
const agents = await discovery.find(query); // Free
// DON'T: On-chain loops
const agents = await contract.findAgents(); // Expensive
// DO: Cache trust scores
const trust = cache.get(agent) || await fabric.getTrust(agent);
// DON'T: Query every time
const trust = await fabric.getTrust(agent); // RedundantThe Bottom Line
We achieve high performance through:
Intelligent batching - Not claiming impossible TPS
Protocol optimization - Not smart contract hacks
Focused use case - Not trying to be everything
Honest metrics - Not marketing numbers
Result: Agent operations that are actually economically viable.
Performance without purpose is meaningless. We optimize for agent economics, not vanity metrics.
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