Aptos introduces Shardines for horizontal scalability, aiming for 1 million transactions per second (TPS)

Aptos Labs has made a significant leap forward in blockchain technology with the introduction of its new execution engine, Shardines, which has enabled the Aptos network to achieve 1 million transactions per second (TPS). This major milestone represents a substantial breakthrough in blockchain scalability, allowing Aptos to process 1 million TPS for non-conflicting transactions and over 500,000 TPS for conflicting transactions.

Shardines is a sharded execution engine that allows Aptos to achieve horizontal scalability, a crucial feature for increasing throughput. By decoupling consensus from storage, Shardines enables the network to scale independently, maximizing performance while maintaining efficiency. Aptos Labs highlighted that this new feature supports near-linear throughput scaling, allowing their 30-machine cluster to surpass the 1 million TPS benchmark.

This scalability breakthrough is particularly important as the blockchain industry pushes toward enhancing execution speed. Networks like Aptos that can handle massive transaction volumes and scale efficiently are pivotal for the crypto ecosystem’s future, especially in sectors like decentralized finance (DeFi), digital economies, and global on-chain markets.

In addition to Shardines, Aptos Labs also unveiled Zaptos in January, designed to reduce end-to-end latency and achieve sub-second finality at 20,000 TPS. This innovation further positions Aptos to revolutionize areas like DeFi, gaming, and crypto payments, offering a faster and more scalable blockchain environment.

The combination of Shardines and Zaptos solidifies Aptos’s push to drive the growth of Web3, with the added advantages of native USDC support, integrations with Chainlink, and the upcoming Aave v3 deployment. Together, these developments position Aptos as a key player in advancing blockchain technology and scalability for future applications.