Sui Posts 40,614,180 TPS in CertiK-Verified Benchmark at Basecamp 2026

40,614,180 TPS, Verified by CertiK

Sui posted a throughput result of 40,614,180 transactions per second at Sui Basecamp 2026, the network's flagship conference held in Singapore on October 7 and 8. The team behind Sui, a layer-1 blockchain protocol built around a directed acyclic graph object model, staged the demonstration to show what its consensus mechanism and parallel execution design can absorb when independent transactions confirm at once rather than in sequence. The figure was not produced on the base chain alone. It ran through Sui Tunnels, a programmable set of off-chain transaction channels built to route activity outside the main execution path. The channels are programmable, meaning applications decide how transaction traffic is packaged before settlement on the chain itself. CertiK, the security auditor, carried out an independent verification of the number. The network's own presentation attached the caveat that frames the story: the figure is a benchmark, not the throughput the chain processes in live production. That distinction matters for anyone reading the headline at face value. A benchmark measures what a system achieves under controlled test conditions; a production rate measures what settles on mainnet during ordinary operation. The announcement presents the 40.6 million figure as evidence the network can handle machine-driven transaction volume of the kind its developers expect next, with the auditor confirming the test itself was sound. Nothing in the conference materials claims mainnet currently runs at that rate, and no comparable live figure was published alongside it. CertiK's verification covers the demonstration as conducted; it does not extend to whether live traffic would reproduce the rate. Benchmark claims of this size usually arrive qualified after the fact; here the qualification was part of the original presentation.

Three Tracks Around the Benchmark

The record sat inside a program the conference organized into three tracks: AI payments, stablecoins and Bitcoin finance. Mysten Labs co-founder Adeniyi Abiodun told attendees that the next $5 trillion in transaction volume will not be initiated by people, a premise the company, which recently processed the first quantum-resistant Sui transaction under protocol version 139, is designing its infrastructure around. On the payments track, Sui offered gasless stablecoin transfers and a service called Agent Payments, under which an AI agent settles API or cloud fees item by item in stablecoins, within permissions and budgets the user sets in advance. The Agent Payments page itself states that the service runs on testnet, has not reached mainnet, and restricts paid calls to an invite system. Loss control for agents is handled by Agent Pass, which caps losses from leaked agent keys at a ceiling the user defines beforehand. Verifying what an agent is authorized to do, and what it actually did, is the goal of VAA, a platform Mysten Labs co-developed with Google Cloud. On the stablecoin track, the event reported that transfer volume on the network has exceeded $1 trillion since August 2025, without disclosing who aggregated the figures or as of what date. A Circle integration through CCTP V2 moves native USDC across 29 chains, and a Samsung Wallet partnership opens Sui-ecosystem USDC to 82 million Galaxy devices in the United States. The Bitcoin finance track carried the Hashi announcement: the platform said on October 9 that its mainnet will open in phases starting this month, alongside a partnership with Anchorage Digital, presented at the event as the first federally chartered digital asset bank in the United States. Hashi has secured $500 million in funding commitments, and more than 20 institutions involved since launch span custody, liquidity, audit, insurance and application services. In July, the US law firm Fenwick West issued a legal opinion stating that Hashi's custody and redemption arrangements do not constitute taxable events.

From Benchmark to Production

The load-bearing record here is CertiK's verification of the benchmark itself; what the number still owes the market is a production counterpart. Three tests decide whether the Basecamp package converts into settled reality. First, whether live traffic approaches the 40.6 million rate. Second, whether the commercial announcements become running services; the Agent Payments page itself marks the product testnet-only and invite-gated. Third, whether Hashi's phased mainnet turns $500 million in commitments into custody and liquidity that actually settles. Our live monitoring shows the token moved 3.1% over the past 24 hours, and our Sui technical analysis reads that as positioning around Basecamp rather than a repricing of throughput. Until Agent Payments reaches mainnet and Hashi completes its October rollout, the record stands as a ceiling, not a running rate.