Base briefly nears 1,000 TPS, making it speed competitive with Solana

Coinbase’s layer-2 blockchain Base saw a short-lived surge in transactions per second amid a token launch on the Virtuals AI platform.

Coinbase’s layer-2 blockchain Base briefly saw the number of transactions it processed per second near 1,000, bringing it closer to the performance of layer-1 blockchain Solana.

On May 29, Base creator Jesse Pollak said on X that Base had sustained near 1,000 transactions per second (TPS) during a launch on the agentic artificial intelligence platform Virtuals. 

The Ethereum scaling blockchain hit a maximum of 959 transactions a second and has a theoretical maximum of 1,429 TPS, according to Chainspect. 

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