Espresso Marks Two Years Since Mainnet Launch as Finality Falls to 400 Milliseconds and Throughput Reaches 181 MB/s

Espresso has produced about 31.7 million blocks in the two years since its mainnet launch. According to Foresight News, upgrades over that period cut transaction finality from about 10 seconds to about 400 milliseconds and raised data throughput from 30 MB/s to 181 MB/s. Espresso says the throughput can support 1 million stablecoin transactions per second. Espresso said it was designed as a base layer for other chains, without a virtual machine, smart contracts or the execution overhead of a monolithic chain. The project attributed the performance improvements to this streamlined design. It added that real-time finality and high throughput are expected to become more important as AI agents trade at machine speed and transaction sizes grow with post-quantum signatures, privacy proofs and compliance data.