NEAR Protocol Achieves 1 Million TPS in Public Benchmark, Showcasing Sharding Scalability
NEAR Protocol has demonstrated its sharding capabilities by surpassing 1 million transactions per second in a verifiable public test. The benchmark, conducted using consumer-grade hardware across 70 shards, validates the network's ability to scale linearly while maintaining decentralization and low costs.
The breakthrough stems from NEAR's Nightshade 2.0 technology, which distributes execution, storage, and state across parallel shards. This architectural approach contrasts with monolithic blockchain designs, offering predictable performance even under heavy loads.
For developers building high-throughput dApps or AI solutions on-chain, the milestone signals NEAR's capacity to handle global-scale operations without compromising stability or affordability. The reproducible results were achieved using Google Compute Engine instances running actual NEAR core code.
