Debunking ADA 1M TPS Hype (Patreon)

Cardano Hydra's claim of 1 million transactions per second (TPS) is misleading for several reasons:

• Hydra is a Layer 2 solution, not part of Cardano's main blockchain. It operates separately from the main Cardano network.

• The 1 million TPS was achieved in a controlled test environment, not in real-world conditions.

• Hydra Heads are not decentralized like the main Cardano blockchain. They function more like centralized systems, which can process transactions faster but sacrifice some of blockchain's core principles.

• Transactions processed in Hydra Heads are not immediately settled on the main Cardano blockchain. Instead, only a summary of the transactions is eventually recorded on the main chain.

• The high TPS number doesn't reflect actual blockchain performance, as it doesn't account for the limitations of settling these transactions on the main Cardano network.

In essence, while Hydra can process many transactions quickly in its own environment, it doesn't solve the fundamental scalability issues of the main Cardano blockchain. The hype around the 1 million TPS figure is misleading because it doesn't represent real-world blockchain performance or true decentralized operation.

PS SOL Firedancer does 1.2M TPS and it is going wide soon.

Final note you can have all the speed in the world, but if you have no adoption, it doesn't matter.