However, Ripple's extremely low cost transactions and the fact that it can process thousands of
transactions per second make it very compelling for a high volume retailer like Starbucks.
Not exact matches
There's only a limited amount of
transactions per second you can
make in the bitcoin network, which in part depends on the «block size» of the memory that store the
transactions on the blockchain.
Critics say the proposal
makes ambitious claims, such as being able to process millions of
transactions per second, without explaining how.
Only 3 - 4
transactions per second can be
made on the Bitcoin network, with an average of 61
transactions per second taking place on the Bitcoin Cash network.
The Tangle is a distributed ledger that provides up to 1000
transactions per second,
making it extremely fast compared to other cryptocurrencies.
The EOS.IO platform is being developed by a private company, block.one, and will allow to process millions of
transactions per second through horizontal scaling,
making older ecosystems, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, feel like an old 1980s personal computer with extremely limited computing capabilities.
In total, it's network can handle up to 30,000
transactions simultaneously and
makes 100 billion computations
per second.
This
makes IOTA capable of dealing with large volumes of
transactions per second.
This platform is
made for financial applications that require high scalability (> thousands of
transactions per second), robust security and near absolute privacy.
According to High Fidelity, the open, permissionless nature of the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains cause limited throughput (
transactions per second) and high
transaction fees, which
makes them unsuitable for HFC.
In fact, taking by
making use of concepts called concurrency and sharding, NEO is able to process at least 10,000
transactions per second.
For providing the infrastructure required for such bigshot conglomerates, permissioned ledger developers need to reach scalability at par with Visa or at least
make sure than
transactions processed
per second gets hiked up to a thousand.
Universa
makes a favorable difference if compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum, by allowing its users to
make hundreds of times more
transactions per second, and at a very low price.
The IOTA network, the 8th largest cryptocurrency by the total value of its supply, by contrast, claims zero - fee
transactions and does not limit the number of
transactions per second of its processing, features the IOTA Foundation said
make it unique among available cryptocurrencies.
The Stellar network is also able to process 1,000
transactions per second,
making it ideal for token raises with a strong
transaction component.
In Q1 2016: Production use harnessing Azure's infrastructure to achieve high availability
making it possible to scale up as needed to achieve thousands of
transactions per second.
The EOS.IO solutions for DApps such as an ability to scale to millions of
transactions per second or no user fees could
make it very attractive to DApp developers.
The TON blockchain is a scalable and flexible blockchain architecture that
makes it possible to process millions of
transactions per second, i.e. a sort of alternative to VISA / Mastercard for the new decentralized economy.
It is available at plasma.bankex.com and designed to
make ETH
transactions cheaper and faster — network speeds reach 5000
transactions per second (250 times more than the current Ethereum bandwidth) at zero gas cost.
Other than these two, another important factor is its scalability, which is supposed to
make it possible for millions to billions of
transactions per second to take place across the network.