Highest TPS by Chain Recorded on EVM Ever

On May 7, 2025, the Sonic blockchain achieved the second-highest transactions per second (TPS) ever recorded on an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchain.

At 11:35 AM, Sonic processed 1 097 transactions per second to finality, totaling 65 838 transactions in a single minute.

This surge resulted from an incentivized campaign designed to demonstrate Sonic's high-speed transaction processing capabilities.

Users worldwide reported no downtime, noting that the web interface's button-click response was slower than the transaction finalization itself.

The only EVM blockchain to surpass this was Binance Smart Chain on December 7, 2023, during the BTC Ordinals release. That event caused widespread network congestion, with delayed transaction finalizations across multiple chains.

With a theoretical capacity of nearly 400 000 TPS, Sonic's infrastructure far exceeds current demand, and full-scale testing of its limits is still forthcoming.

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