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How Quai achieves Visa-level scale!! 💳

Visa processes 50,000–100,000 transactions per second.

Bitcoin does 5.

The gap isn't a tragedy.

It's an engineering problem.

@QuaiNetwork is the first proof of work chain designed specifically to close it

A single Quai shard handles 700–1,000 TPS at 5-second block times. But here's the key: the network measures its own performance. When a shard saturates, the system automatically adds a second shard.... no coordination, no governance vote, no intervention. Throughput doubles. Then doubles again. There's no ceiling.

The sharding hierarchy isn't really a hierarchy, it's a lower-archy. The zone chains (shards) are the leaders. The region and prime chains above them exist only as communication bridges between zones, and they emerge naturally from mining the zone chains. No secondary consensus mechanism. Work is the only coordination needed.

You don't need to validate every shard to participate. You only keep state for the shard you mine. At 1,000 TPS on a singl

Perhaps #Bitcoin paused for a cup of coffee first.. https://t.co/yd16TbFsLw

This is wild! Even before the crazy jump he has to suit up on the ledge. Just takes one wrong move. No thanks! https://t.co/3Yn0CRdicl