Stellar unveils fee-free Project Thruput network that hit 7.02 million payments per second in benchmarks

The benchmark measured the execution engine within a single validator across eight machines, not full network throughput.

Wed 28 Oct 2026 · 07:02 EDT · 1 min read

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The Stellar Development Foundation unveiled Project Thruput, a fee-free network that reached 7.02 million payments per second in early benchmarks, according to the foundation’s announcement. The figure came from eight machines inside a single validator, up from 1.18 million on one machine.

The benchmark measured the core execution engine, including signature verification and block processing, not full network throughput. Thruput runs transactions that touch the same data simultaneously and spreads work across machines without sharding state.

No per-transaction fees, token-based priority

Thruput removes per-transaction fees while keeping gas limits. When demand exceeds capacity, priority depends on accounts’ unlocked native-token balances. The project is a technology preview running on FutureNet, with public code and documentation, and the foundation has not said how it will relate to the existing Stellar network.

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