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When talking about Avalanche TPS you often hear 4500 TPS mentioned, but that figure refers to non-EVM X-Chain. We are interested on the EVM-compatible C-chain. There seems not to be very good reliable data about max TPS on Avalanche C-chain, but 1000 TPS is often being mentioned. However, the C-chain has been quite a few times congested during past months and on these occasions the gas prices has been really sky rocketing. I have not personally been witnessing these congestions, and thus is bit difficult to know what kind of TPS figures and what types of transactions has been causing these. Looking at the transaction data from their block explorer stats we can calculate their average transaction gas usage which was 192103 on 2022/04/12. C-chain gas limit per 2 second block is 8.000.000. This means that if they are handling their normal average transactions, 4.000.000 gas per second limit can fit only maximum of 20,82 transactions. To be fair average transactions on the C-chain with ga...

I wanted to create a honest comparison with real numbers instead of showing you theoretical marketing numbers. If you disagree with any of it, please leave a comment, back it up with data or proof and I will correct my content. Keeping this post super short as you people are SO lazy reading anything 🤣  If you like what I do, consider following me on twitter: @aCryptoObserver Summary This picture is a summary of my research and I keep it updated to contain latest information. TPS - Transactions per second TPS figures in the picture means maximum sustainable real-world usage TPS. Check out background and "proof" for the TPS on these separate articles: Avalanche - C-chain: 27 TPS Polygon PoS: 100 TPS Fantom: 20 TPS Telos EVM: 1000 - 6000 TPS Conclusions It seems like most TPS figures mentioned in crypto space are theoretical maximums or at least results of a tests run with the lightest transactions possible to achieve high TPS counts, very little connected to real world usage s...