In a report published on November 13, 2026, at 22:40 (UTC+8), Foresight News marked the second anniversary of Espresso’s mainnet launch. By then, the network had produced about 31.7 million blocks.
Across multiple upgrades during those two years, Espresso reduced transaction finality time from roughly 10 seconds to 400 milliseconds and increased data throughput from 30 MB/s to 181 MB/s. Espresso said the latter figure would be sufficient to support one million stablecoin transactions per second; the report did not present that as an observed transaction rate.
Espresso attributed the performance gains to its design as a base layer for other chains. It said the system has no virtual machine or smart contracts and avoids the execution overhead of a monolithic chain. Espresso also argued that fast finality and high throughput would become more important as AI agents transact at machine speed and as post-quantum signatures, privacy proofs and compliance data increase transaction sizes.