Zero Blockchain’s Astonishing Feat: 2 Million TPS While Defying Decentralization Norms

The Blockchain State Team

02/16/2026

While most blockchain networks struggle with scalability issues, Zero Blockchain has shattered performance barriers with its groundbreaking technology. The platform now processes a mind-boggling 2 million transactions per second (TPS) per zone. That’s not a typo. Two. Million. Per. Second.

Let’s put this in perspective. Solana, once the speed demon of the blockchain world, maxes out at 100,000 TPS. Zero just casually exceeded that by 20 times. And transaction costs? We’re talking about 1/10,000th of a penny per transaction. Practically free.

The secret sauce? Four revolutionary technologies working in harmony. QMDB technology serves as Zero’s state storage solution, achieving 3 million updates per second and offering 100x improvement over traditional blockchain databases. Storage bottlenecks? Gone.

QMDB technology crushes storage limitations with 3 million updates per second. That’s 100x better than traditional blockchain databases.

Then there’s FAFO. No, not that FAFO. It’s Zero’s parallel compute scheduling system that enables concurrent processing across multiple Atomicity Zones. Previous systems needed 30 supercomputers in data centers to hit 1 million TPS. Zero does it on a single node.

Jolt Pro virtual machine leverages GPU processing for computational performance, demonstrating EVM execution at 1 million TPS on a single node. That’s just showing off.

Zero-knowledge proof technology, another pillar of Zero’s architecture, enables real-time verification at 1 million TPS. That’s 100x more efficient than existing solutions. Pretty neat trick.

Finally, SVID technology powers the networking infrastructure with 100x improvements in data transmission capacity. The result? Hundreds of applications running simultaneously across different zones without choking the system.

Zero’s Atomicity Zones operate like concurrent processes on a multi-core processor, enabling truly parallel execution. This architecture eliminates the traditional bottlenecks that have plagued blockchain networks for years. The LayerZero foundation developed this technology as what they call the last blockchain needed.

Zero’s governance structure ensures decentralized decision-making through on-chain votes by stakers, maintaining the network’s core blockchain principles while delivering unprecedented performance.

In the race for blockchain supremacy, Zero isn’t just leading—it’s lapping the competition. Repeatedly. The question isn’t whether this technology works, but what developers will build with such unprecedented capacity.

"The old world runs on trust. The new one runs on code."