Venom Blockchain Flexes 150K TPS in Stress Test—Now Watch TradFi Scramble to Catch Up

Venom just dropped a scalability mic—hitting 150,000 transactions per second in a closed-network stress test. That’s not a typo. It’s the kind of throughput that makes legacy finance systems look like dial-up.

Lab conditions? Sure. But those numbers force a reckoning. If Venom can scale this under real-world loads, the ’high-performance blockchain’ label might need an upgrade to ’post-performance.’ Meanwhile, Wall Street’s still patting itself on the back for 500 TPS settlements.

One test won’t rewrite the rules—yet. But when a network moves this fast, even skeptics start checking their rearview mirrors.

Venom Foundation prepares for enterprise use cases

According to the Venom Foundation, the goal of this stress test was to ensure that the blockchain is ready for enterprise use cases in DeFi. This includes payment providers, crypto exchanges, and games, among other DeFi users. Specifically, these are the types of platforms that require a reliable and scalable blockchain that doesn’t break down under network stress.

“Throughput only matters if it can remain reliable under pressure,” said Christopher Louis, Chief Executive Officer at Venom. “Our new stack can handle enterprise‑scale workloads without spiking fees or compromising decentralization, which is exactly what payment providers, exchanges, and game studios need.”

Venom uses directed acyclic graph technology, which is different than traditional blockchains, which record transactions sequentially one after another. Unlike blockchains, transactions can be confirmed in parallel, as long as they don’t conflict with each other.

Based in Abu Dhabi and registered in the Cayman Islands, Venom Foundation is a non-profit supporting the development of its layer-1 blockchain. Their focus is on building a scalable blockchain for DeFi use cases.