- ADA Whale explained why increasing TPS doesn’t solve a blockchain’s scaling issues.
- Scaling issues concern whether a network can cope with a larger user count.
- The advocate said several chains with high TPS will stall if their user count explodes.
In a recent post, renowned Cardano community member ADA Whale explained why increasing the transaction per second (TPS) on any blockchain doesn’t solve the scaling challenge.
In a series of tweets on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), ADA Whale argued that scaling on any network isn’t about the TPS narratives. Instead, the Cardano advocate said, “It’s simply about how we can ever imagine to cope with user numbers on a far, far larger scale than today.”
Furthermore, ADA Whale opined that networks that fail to surpass this challenge may find it hard to grow. Explaining the basis for the argument, ADA Whale said a lot of blockchains claiming high TPS would find it hard to grow if their user counts exploded.
“Why I say it’s not about TPS: many of the chains claiming thousands of TPS today would completely stall if user numbers grew 10-100x,” ADA Whale tweeted. However, the ADA advocate expressed that some blockchains may have solved this problem but said, “It is not the ones you see in the crypto headlines.”
In May 2023, Cardano officially launched its layer-2 scaling solution Hydra, which increased its TPS to 1,000 transactions. The protocol, designed to enhance Cardano’s throughput, was also introduced to enhance projects developed on the platform.
Meanwhile, Cardano came under fire recently following an analysis by K33 Research. As previously reported, the analysis put into question ADA’s long-term potential and development on the blockchain.
While noting that no “meaningful activity” takes place on the network, the analysis expressed concerns that the current state of Cardano mirrors that of networks that went down. In response, Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson disregarded the report. “Who? Never heard of them,” Hoskinson said.
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