In the crypto market, TPS (transactions per second) has long become a tool for boasting. Those extravagant numbers fill the promotional materials of various public chains, yet they rarely materialize in practical applications. When Kite claims that its Testnet can achieve 500,000 TPS, my first reaction is skepticism. After all, having witnessed the collapse of too many "Ethereum killer" projects that promised to be invincible, only to crumble under slight pressure on the network.

To clarify this completely, I decided to verify it myself. By December 2025, the demand for on-chain interactions by AI agents had skyrocketed, and the traditional thousand TPS was simply not enough. Traditional blockchains are like a one-way street, where all transactions have to queue up to get through, resulting in painfully low efficiency. Kite attempts to break through this bottleneck with a parallel processing approach.

From the perspective of the laboratory, I mobilized 50 distributed servers to simulate extreme pressure and conducted a continuous high-concurrency write test for 3 hours. The results were surprising—Kite's latency was consistently kept below 150 milliseconds, which is indeed rare in the current Web3 ecosystem. This indicates that Kite has indeed put effort into its parallel processing mechanism. Of course, there is still a distance between actual testing and real-world application scenarios, but at least it is not completely bragging.