Don’t you dislike seeing yet another layer-1 launch boasting one million, 10 million, or even 100 million TPS and wonder, “How can I benefit from this hype?” Well, today’s your chance!Here’s a step-by-step guide to building your very own 1 billion TPS layer-1 network that will outshine them all. Step 1: Use a supercomputer to run EVM A single high-end machine can handle about 100k TPS running the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). To reach this, you must bypass the Patricia Merkle Trie during reads and writes to permanent state, which otherwise restricts standard EVM to under 100 TPS due to state rollback and network reorganization mechanisms. Ignore those slowdowns—they’re irrelevant here. Being EVM-compatible (or better, EVM-equivalent) is critical since most web3 apps use Solidity or languages compiling to EVM bytecode, making it easier to attract developers to your 1 billion TPS network. Trust me, "EVM-equivalent" really sells. Step 2: Forget the network A single machine is, technically, a network on its own. Why risk slowing things down with multiple machines?Networks with different machines require communication, agreement on network state, and consensus mechanisms—all of which are slow and add wasteful overhead. Stick with a single machine.

If you’re worried about accusations of centralization, just add other machines with fancy labels like “data availability nodes. ” Many projects do this. Step 3: Create 100 shards Now, boost your setup with sharding by making 100 copies of your single-machine network. These shards don’t need to synchronize or communicate — just 100 independent shards. Technically, sharded networks sync to guarantee consistency, and shards shuffle machines to prevent collusion, but let’s skip that complexity here. So: 100 shards × 100k TPS = 10 million TPS! Step 4: Ditch the EVM EVM-equivalent is passé; now it’s about being the EVM-killer. EVM is slow because it’s a stack-based, interpreted VM designed for hardware agnosticism and execution correctness across diverse machines. Instead, use WASM-JIT, which is mature, high-performance, and supports compiling many major programming languages. WASM-JIT compiles to native register-based machine code, sacrificing portability for speed, and can run up to 100x faster than EVM. Replacing EVM with WASM-JIT multiplies the 10 million TPS by 100, reaching your goal of 1 billion TPS. Congratulations, you did it! Stay tuned for more tips on pushing your 1 billion TPS layer-1 network even further with unrealistically optimistic concurrency!