Term

Throughput

The rate a blockchain processes transactions or data over time (e.g., TPS).

Type:
performance
scaling
1
definition

Throughput measures how much work a network completes per unit time. Higher throughput supports more users but often competes with decentralization and latency constraints.

Example 1.1

"After a block size increase, measured throughput rose as more transactions fit in each block."

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