Processing 5 Billion Micropayments (at 100k TPS) with Avalanche Vryx and Vilmo

[patrick-ogrady]

Original Post: https://x.com/_patrickogrady/status/1780974444779098170

Over the last few days, the first Vryx devnet processed 5 billion micropayments at a sustained rate of 100,000 transactions per second (TPS). This test involved 10,000,000 active accounts (2,500,000 active every 60 seconds and 95,000 active every second) sending transfers to each other. The likelihood that a particular account was active in a transaction was given by a Zipf-Mandelbrot Distribution with a standard parameterization (a=~1, b=~2.7). The devnet was validated by 50 equal-weight instances (32 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, 100 GB io2 SSD) running Snowman Consensus across 5 regions (us-west-2, us-east-1, ap-south-1, ap-northeast-1, eu-west-1). Transactions were issued to 1 of 5 API nodes (1 per region) by a single issuer located in eu-west-1.

Read more: https://hackmd.io/@patrickogrady/vryx-poc