Redbelly Named Fastest Blockchain in the World... So What?
Another day, another blockchain project claiming record-breaking performance. We've all seen the headlines before: zillions of transactions per second, microsecond block times, and enough buzzwords to knock out a marketing intern. When Chainspect recently crowned Redbelly Network the world's highest throughput blockchain, you might have scrolled past with well-deserved scepticism.
After all, does it really matter if a blockchain already processed 73,158 transactions per second on mainnet?
The short answer is: it absolutely does, especially for real-world assets.
Many blockchain projects market technical specifications that sound impressive on paper but mean little in practice. It's like having a sports car when you're stuck in traffic. Theoretically impressive, practically irrelevant.
Redbelly's throughput isn't just a vanity metric or a marketing ploy. It's a purpose-built attribute of the network, designed specifically to enable blockchain as viable infrastructure for global finance.
To understand why throughput is essential, we need to examine it both as a critical component of Redbelly's purpose-built architecture and in the context of global financial markets where scale, speed, and certainty determine not just efficiency but what's actually possible.
Throughput? What Are You Talking About?
Throughput, measured in transactions per second (TPS), represents how many transactions a blockchain can process in a single second. You can think of it like a highway; some blockchains can handle more cars without causing a gridlock than others.
However, just like a 5-lane highway is useless if it ends with a 1-lane junction, other factors often limit many blockchains that claim high throughput.
Thanks to fundamentally unique architecture, Redbelly Network offers high throughput without running into other bottlenecks. Recent independent testing by Chainspect has confirmed Redbelly is now officially the world's highest throughput blockchain, achieving 73,158 TPS under real-world conditions.
For context, this vastly outpaces the max TPS (100 blocks) of other well-known blockchains:
- Ethereum: 62 TPS
- Solana: 2,909 TPS
- Mastercard: 5,000 TPS
- Aptos: 11,936 TPS
- ICP: 25,621 TPS
- Visa: 65,000 TPS
- Redbelly: 73,158 TPS
To put this in perspective, the US stock exchanges handle hundreds of millions of trades daily during market hours. This translates to upwards of 4,000 transactions a second, without considering anomalous days or even derivatives trading.
While most blockchains would collapse under a fraction of this activity, Redbelly's architecture was designed specifically to operate at this scale.
We're not talking about theoretical performance that crumbles under when the chain sees real usage. This is sustainable throughput that maintains its performance even when network activity spikes.
More Than Just Speed
What makes Redbelly's throughput truly valuable is how it combines with three other critical features:
Instant Finality: Unlike most blockchains where you're left wondering if your transaction might be reversed, Redbelly's transactions are final the moment they're confirmed. No waiting for multiple confirmations or being concerned about a potential chain split or rollback in the future. For regulated markets handling real-world assets worth billions, this certainty is essential for issuers considering bringing assets on-chain.
Fixed Gas Costs: While other chains see their transaction fees skyrocket during busy periods, Redbelly maintains consistent, predictable gas costs regardless of network activity. The gas price is fixed in USD terms, providing cost certainty for all transactions.
Verifiable Credentials: Throughput without appropriate safeguards is problematic. This is where Redbelly's accountability layer comes in. Every transaction is traceable to verified participants through the verifiable credentials system, making Redbelly suited for regulated financial institutions that need both speed and compliance.
Is Throughput Really That Important?
You might assume that blockchain throughput is already sufficient for most applications. After all, many chains claim to handle hundreds or thousands of transactions per second. But there's a profound difference between theoretical capacity and performance in the real world.
Redbelly's high throughput doesn't just mean you can send assets instantly. It means that the experience of using the chain remains smooth for everyone, even during times of high activity. This is critical for asset issuers who need reliability and predictability.
The Yuga Labs' Otherside virtual land sale is a prime example of what happens when throughput is insufficient.
In May 2022, tens of thousands of people attempted to mint metaverse land plots offered by Yuga Labs, the creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs. The mint was conducted on the Ethereum mainnet, which buckled under the sudden spike in activity.
Gas prices exploded to over $1,000 per transaction as users desperately bid up fees. Users collectively spent an estimated $180 million on gas fees alone, with many losing money due to failed transactions.
For hours, Ethereum became practically unusable, even for those who weren't trying to mint an NFT. Simple transactions like sending and swapping tokens became prohibitively expensive. The entire network temporarily ground to a halt because the infrastructure couldn't handle a single high-demand event.
The interesting part is that this isn't unexpected. Ethereum's fee mechanism worked as designed, driving up fees to match demand. The issue is that this behaviour, while technically expected, is not acceptable for asset issuers looking to bring RWAs on-chain. Anomalous activity in one market should not affect the experience of other users on the network.
Imagine if processing monthly dividend payments for tokenized securities caused all real estate transactions to double in cost on the same day. No asset issuer would be interested in bringing assets on-chain if this was the case.
On Redbelly, this entire event would have used a fraction of the network's capacity, with every user paying the same fixed gas fee regardless of demand. The network's fixed gas model ensures unpredictable pricing spikes cannot occur.
The Otherside land sale is not a rare edge case either. There have been many cases across different chains where a single event, like the Trump coin launch on Solana, has affected the experience for all users interacting with the network. It's what happens when demand outstrips the fundamental capacity of the network, like trying to funnel rush hour traffic through a single-lane road.
What High Throughput Enables
Redbelly's 73,158 TPS capacity fundamentally transforms what's possible. Major NFT mints or high-volume trading events would utilize only a small fraction of Redbelly's processing capacity. Users can complete transactions within seconds, paying the same fixed gas fee regardless of network demand.
Here's what Redbelly Network enables:
Global-Scale Asset Tokenization
Traditional financial markets process billions of transactions daily. Bringing these assets on-chain requires infrastructure that can handle not just average volumes, but extreme activity spikes during volatile periods in the market.
With Redbelly, even major market events that trigger mass trading activity can be processed without delay.
Trump tweeted about Tariffs again?
Don't stress; your transaction will still be processed instantly, along with everyone else trying to rebalance their portfolio. And the network's instant finality means that once a transaction is confirmed, it's permanent.
For asset issuers, this certainty is crucial. When someone redeems a tokenized gold position, the issuer can ship physical gold immediately, confident that the blockchain transaction won't be reversed. Without this certainty, real-world asset tokenization remains fundamentally risky.
Synchronized Financial Operations
Many financial processes involve synchronized bulk operations like dividend or monthly rental income distributions. These create massive transaction spikes within narrow time windows.
On low-throughput chains, these operations would need to be staggered or batched over hours or days even to be attempted, creating artificial delays and settlement risks. With Redbelly's capacity, a property management platform could process payments for 100,000 rental units in seconds rather than days, all with predictable costs.
Real-Time Rebalancing
Financial markets move fast. When interest rates shift or asset prices fluctuate, quickly rebalancing portfolios becomes critical.
When a multi-billion dollar asset manager portfolio needs to be rebalanced quickly, fighting with NFT-minting degens over limited block space is not an option.
Redbelly's throughput ensures that even when thousands of market participants move simultaneously, the network continues to function smoothly. There's no privileged access for those who can pay higher gas fees. Everyone gets equal access to predictable transaction fees and instant finality at all times.
Real World Applications
Cool, that all sounds great in theory, but what markets actually benefit in practice?
Commodity Tokenization
Early iterations of tokenized commodities, such as Pax Gold, have shown demand but have struggled with regulatory complexity and are limited by the blockchains on which they exist.
Redbelly addresses these issues with verified credentials for compliance, instant finality to remove the risk of rollbacks or chain splits, and throughput capacity for smooth operations at all times.
When commodity prices fluctuate, thousands of redemptions or new issuances can be processed in seconds rather than hours, regardless of other activity on the network, with certainty for all participants.
Real Estate and Rental Markets
The trillion-dollar global rental market has remained largely unserved due to the complexity of moving them into the digital world.
Hutly, an Australian real estate technology company, is tokenizing over US$1.8 billion in rent rolls on Redbelly Network, converting rental agreements into digital assets. This creates an entirely new investable asset class, allowing investors to gain access to rental yield, and even use these assets as collateral in other protocols.
What makes this possible is Redbelly's unique combination of high throughput and verifiable credentials. The network can handle synchronized rental payment processing for entire portfolios in seconds while maintaining compliance across multiple jurisdictions. Even during peak payment periods, the network performs consistently with predictable fees.
Structured Products
Traditional structured products suffer from significant overhead costs, limited liquidity, and slow rebalancing. On most blockchains, creating products that combine multiple assets becomes prohibitively expensive during market volatility, exactly when rebalancing is most critical.
Redbelly's throughput unlocks new possibilities for financial engineering.
Asset managers can create tokens that combine exposure to multiple asset classes, such as equity indices, commodities, and yield-generating debt instruments, all within a single product. When market conditions change, these products can be rebalanced without competing for block space or facing unpredictable gas costs.
Why Redbelly's Throughput Matters for Real Markets
The question isn't whether Redbelly is the fastest blockchain in the world. It's what this combination of speed, certainty, and compliance enables for financial markets.
Redbelly's throughput isn't just a number. It's an infrastructure breakthrough backed by our patented DBFT consensus, identity layer, instant finality, and fixed fees. Together, these create a foundation where:
- Asset issuers can process millions of synchronized operations without congestion
- Traders can respond to market events in real-time without fee spikes
- Complex financial products can be composed, traded, and rebalanced without bottlenecks
This is when blockchain technology finally delivers on its promise of transforming global finance.
Redbelly is systematically unlocking this potential by moving entire asset classes on-chain with uncompromising performance, enabling compliant trading with privacy-preserving verification, and supporting entire markets, not just isolated transactions.
The practical difference is clear: when users interact with assets on Redbelly, they get reliability and predictability coupled with an experience that exceeds traditional finance.
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