Amid a market downturn, Ethereum quietly hit a record 3,872 TPS, showcasing real progress toward its goal of 10,000 TPS for the next decade.
Ethereum:- In a week marked by red charts and falling prices, Ethereum quietly delivered one of its strongest infrastructural wins yet. While the broader crypto market continued its slide – with Bitcoin dipping toward the $100,000 mark and most altcoins following suit – Ethereum reached an all-time-high network throughput of 3,872 transactions per second (TPS).
According to real-time blockchain data, the milestone was reached at approximately 14:37 UTC on November 4, 2025, showcasing Ethereum’s most efficient performance to date.
At the time, Ethereum’s native token ETH was trading around $3,300, down about 5% on the day. Yet the market dip did little to overshadow the technical breakthrough.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin celebrated the achievement on social media, calling it proof that “Ethereum is scaling,” – implying that “there’s much more to come.”
Behind Ethereum’s New TPS Record
Ethereum’s record throughput of 3,872 TPS marks a massive leap from its typical Layer-1 average of 15-30 TPS. However, the 3,453 Ethereum TPS record also exposes the growing dominance of Layer-2 scaling solutions.
According to data from GrowThePie, the surge was primarily driven by the Base and Arbitrum One networks, which recorded 2,410.2 TPS and 1,200.7 TPS respectively at the time of the all-time high.
In comparison, other chains such as Soneium (76.5 TPS), Celo (26.0 TPS), and Optimism (23.7 TPS) contributed smaller shares.
Projects such as Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism have been instrumental in that effort. Base, in particular, has seen explosive adoption in driven by consumer-facing applications and integrations with decentralized social platforms.
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Similarly, Arbitrum continues to dominate decentralized finance (DeFi) activity. Optimism is also preparing for a major upgrade under the “Superchain” framework.
The key driver of the surge are also Layer-2 solutions such as ZKyync’s last week “Atlas” upgrade which Vitalik Buterin called as “doing underrated work for the Etheruem ecosystem”. ZKsync’s Atlas is credited with enabling throughput topping 15,000 TPS in its internal testing, and easing the load on Ethereum’s L1.
Towards 10k TPS Soon?
Ethereum’s average daily throughput across all chains now hovers above 2,600 TPS, with peaks nearing 3,900 TPS. This is a level comparable to traditional payment systems such as Visa’s average processing speed.
The milestone underscores that Ethereum’s scaling roadmap is translating into tangible performance gains. Upcoming upgrades – including the “Fusaka” hard fork and the rollout of advanced zero-knowledge (ZK) proving systems = are expected to push these boundaries further. Together, they mark steady progress toward Ethereum’s long-term vision of achieving 10,000 TPS on Layer-1 and millions of TPS across its Layer-2 ecosystem within the next decade.
