Hydra Achieves 1 Million TPS, Validating Cardano as the Fastest Blockchain

The Hydra Doom Tournament highlighted Cardano’s Hydra solution, achieving 1M TPS and proving its scalability. With 15.5B transactions processed in 24 hours without failure, Hydra demonstrated its potential for gaming, DeFi, and P2P applications. Its horizontal scaling via Hydra heads and innovations like the temporary head model ensure efficiency, reliability, and adaptability, revolutionizing blockchain use cases across industries.

The Hydra Doom Tournament is a high-stakes gaming event, held both online and live, that highlights the classic game Doom while demonstrating the scalability and capabilities of the Hydra solution on the Cardano blockchain. The first stages of the tournament have delivered decisive results, with Cardano being crowned the fastest blockchain, achieving an unprecedented 1 million Transactions Per Second (TPS).

This significant milestone positions Cardano at the forefront of blockchain scalability and could set a new precedent ...