We’ve started publishing early load-testing results from Lattice Network, an L1 blockchain currently under active development.
This post is not a token announcement, launch post, or performance claim.
It’s a snapshot of raw system behavior under load.
Test Summary
Recent execution-layer stress tests produced the following results:
1,000 TPS for 30 seconds — PASS
3,000 TPS for 30 seconds — PASS
5,000 TPS for 20 seconds — FAIL (saturation reached)
The failure at higher throughput was gradual rather than catastrophic, indicating controlled backpressure rather than system collapse.
What’s Being Tested?
Lattice Network is designed as a hybrid DAG-based L1 with:
EVM compatibility (smart contracts, tooling, wallets)
Parallelized transaction ordering
Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) integrated at the protocol level
Each of these components introduces real computational overhead.
No shortcuts were taken for synthetic benchmarks.
Why This Matters
Most EVM-compatible L1s today sustain:
Tens of TPS (Ethereum mainnet)
Low hundreds of TPS (many EVM sidechains)
A few hundred TPS under realistic conditions (high-performance EVM chains)
Reaching 3,000 TPS sustained in an early-stage hybrid DAG + EVM system places Lattice Network in a different performance class — before aggressive optimization.
Importantly:
These are sustained tests, not single-burst benchmarks
The system degrades predictably under pressure
Bottlenecks appear where expected (execution, validation, cryptography)
About the 5,000 TPS Saturation
Hitting limits is expected — and useful.
The observed saturation suggests:
Execution or signature verification becoming the dominant constraint
Network or batching thresholds being reached
Natural scaling boundaries prior to tuning and sharding strategies
This is normal for early L1 development and provides clear optimization targets.
Current Status
No public launch
No incentives
No performance marketing
Just:
Testing
Profiling
Iterating
As development continues, we’ll share more data as it becomes meaningful.
Closing
Performance is not a claim — it’s something you measure, break, and improve.
Lattice Network is still in that process.
More results soon.
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