Sui Sets Record for Highest Verified Throughput Settled to a Blockchain: 40 Million Transactions
Palo Alto, CA, October 7th, 2026/Chainwire/--Sui tunnels processed 40,614,180 transactions per second (TPS), settled on Sui mainnet in a live, high-stress speed test, beating its own 20 million target and easily surpassing its July 4 record of over 6 million. The test was conducted on the Summit Stage at Sui Basecamp, Sui's annual flagship conference held this year alongside Token2049 Singapore, and was designed to prove the network's resilience and speed under the extreme capacity demands of AI agents and machine commerce.
40,614,180 TPS was achieved via Sui tunnels, which were introduced during the previous record-setting livestream on July 4, 2026. Similar to Lightning Network’s offchain payment channels, Sui tunnels settle to Sui mainnet when closed.
Every closed tunnel is mutually cosigned and independently verifiable onchain, combining high throughput with cryptographic proof that no transaction can be tampered with. Unlike Lightning’s channels, Sui tunnels are programmable, meaning they allow...
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