Powering a real-time public blockchain for 100 billion daily transactions
About BSV
Scale, speed, and cost are now critical for real-world blockchain adoption. As businesses look to use blockchain for everyday operations, from payments to data and compliance, the technology behind it must be reliable, affordable, and built to perform at enterprise level. BSV Blockchain is a public Layer 1 protocol governed by the BSV Association in Switzerland and built on the original Bitcoin protocol. Designed for high performance and low transaction costs, it supports a wide range of use cases, including micropayments, AI agents, digital identity, and financial transactions. The association provides a scalable foundation that meets both commercial and regulatory needs worldwide.
Scaling blockchain for real-world use
To move beyond cryptocurrency speculation and enable enterprise and AI-driven use cases, BSV needed to prove that a public blockchain could handle global transaction volumes. It set ambitious targets for throughput, latency, and cost while overcoming database bottlenecks, supporting real-time AI decisioning, and maintaining consistently low latency under heavy and unpredictable workloads.
Support microtransactions across new web3 models
BSV wanted to power high-volume payment models like pay-as-you-go data usage and decentralized digital rights management.
Overcome database bottlenecks in earlier architectures
Traditional RDBMS and some NoSQL systems demanded large RAM footprints or high operational complexity that could not support BSV’s cost and scale requirements.
Enable real-time decisions for AI agents
The blockchain needed to function as a trusted data layer for AI workloads, including verifiable logging and low-latency response for autonomous systems.
Scale without long-tail latency or warm-up penalties
BSV’s infrastructure needed to maintain predictably low latency even under bursty workloads, rebalancing events, and miner node failures.
Aerospike powers the high-speed, real-time data layer
BSV selected Aerospike’s high-speed data platform to power its Teranode transaction engine, enabling the real-time performance needed for blockchain at global scale.
Ultra-high transaction throughput
Using Aerospike as the NoSQL backend for the Teranode, BSV Blockchain achieved over one million transactions per second, supporting up to 100 billion blockchain transactions per day with sustained performance.
Consistently low latency
Sub-10 millisecond response times are maintained across the network, ensuring fast and reliable reads and writes even as usage grows, without the need for warm caching or excess memory.
Simple, linear scaling
Aerospike’s shared-nothing design allows the network to scale by simply adding more nodes. Data rebalancing and failover are automatic, removing operational complexity and bottlenecks.
High performance at lower cost
By storing indexes in memory and data on SSD, the platform delivers near in-memory speed at a fraction of the cost of fully in-memory systems, keeping long-term infrastructure costs sustainable.
Faster, more reliable mining
With strong data consistency and no transaction lag, miners can process transactions more quickly and accurately, reducing operational risk while increasing overall network efficiency.
Enterprise-ready blockchain for AI, payments, and Web3
By combining Aerospike’s real-time data capabilities with the scalability of BSV, Teranode demonstrates how public blockchain infrastructure can meet true enterprise requirements. The implementation proves that blockchain can operate at national and global scale with low latency, high consistency, and low-cost, unlocking real-world use cases across finance, AI, payments, and government.
Achieved 100 billion blockchain transactions per day
This level of throughput outpaces every public blockchain and far exceeds the global capacity of payment networks like Visa.
Delivered over 3 million NoSQL operations per second
Aerospike sustains massive read/write volume across global clusters without degradation or added complexity.
Reduced transaction latency to under 10 milliseconds
Latency remained low and predictable even as clusters scaled, supporting mining, agent-based decisioning, and financial workflows.
Enabled cost-efficient microtransactions
The system’s low operational cost makes new pricing models viable, from streaming micropayments to decentralized service fees.
Established AI and government-grade readiness
With strong consistency and high availability, the platform supports audit trails, verifiable decisions, and real-time inference in regulated environments.
Testimonials
Additional resources
For a deeper understanding and more insights, explore these additional resources.
Get started with Aerospike
For high-performance, scalable data management and ultra-low latency, ideal for handling massive datasets and real-time applications.
Powering a real-time public blockchain for 100 billion daily transactions
About BSV
Scale, speed, and cost are now critical for real-world blockchain adoption. As businesses look to use blockchain for everyday operations, from payments to data and compliance, the technology behind it must be reliable, affordable, and built to perform at enterprise level. BSV Blockchain is a public Layer 1 protocol governed by the BSV Association in Switzerland and built on the original Bitcoin protocol. Designed for high performance and low transaction costs, it supports a wide range of use cases, including micropayments, AI agents, digital identity, and financial transactions. The association provides a scalable foundation that meets both commercial and regulatory needs worldwide.
Scaling blockchain for real-world use
To move beyond cryptocurrency speculation and enable enterprise and AI-driven use cases, BSV needed to prove that a public blockchain could handle global transaction volumes. It set ambitious targets for throughput, latency, and cost while overcoming database bottlenecks, supporting real-time AI decisioning, and maintaining consistently low latency under heavy and unpredictable workloads.
Support microtransactions across new web3 models
BSV wanted to power high-volume payment models like pay-as-you-go data usage and decentralized digital rights management.
Overcome database bottlenecks in earlier architectures
Traditional RDBMS and some NoSQL systems demanded large RAM footprints or high operational complexity that could not support BSV’s cost and scale requirements.
Enable real-time decisions for AI agents
The blockchain needed to function as a trusted data layer for AI workloads, including verifiable logging and low-latency response for autonomous systems.
Scale without long-tail latency or warm-up penalties
BSV’s infrastructure needed to maintain predictably low latency even under bursty workloads, rebalancing events, and miner node failures.
Aerospike powers the high-speed, real-time data layer
BSV selected Aerospike’s high-speed data platform to power its Teranode transaction engine, enabling the real-time performance needed for blockchain at global scale.
Ultra-high transaction throughput
Using Aerospike as the NoSQL backend for the Teranode, BSV Blockchain achieved over one million transactions per second, supporting up to 100 billion blockchain transactions per day with sustained performance.
Consistently low latency
Sub-10 millisecond response times are maintained across the network, ensuring fast and reliable reads and writes even as usage grows, without the need for warm caching or excess memory.
Simple, linear scaling
Aerospike’s shared-nothing design allows the network to scale by simply adding more nodes. Data rebalancing and failover are automatic, removing operational complexity and bottlenecks.
High performance at lower cost
By storing indexes in memory and data on SSD, the platform delivers near in-memory speed at a fraction of the cost of fully in-memory systems, keeping long-term infrastructure costs sustainable.
Faster, more reliable mining
With strong data consistency and no transaction lag, miners can process transactions more quickly and accurately, reducing operational risk while increasing overall network efficiency.
Enterprise-ready blockchain for AI, payments, and Web3
By combining Aerospike’s real-time data capabilities with the scalability of BSV, Teranode demonstrates how public blockchain infrastructure can meet true enterprise requirements. The implementation proves that blockchain can operate at national and global scale with low latency, high consistency, and low-cost, unlocking real-world use cases across finance, AI, payments, and government.
Achieved 100 billion blockchain transactions per day
This level of throughput outpaces every public blockchain and far exceeds the global capacity of payment networks like Visa.
Delivered over 3 million NoSQL operations per second
Aerospike sustains massive read/write volume across global clusters without degradation or added complexity.
Reduced transaction latency to under 10 milliseconds
Latency remained low and predictable even as clusters scaled, supporting mining, agent-based decisioning, and financial workflows.
Enabled cost-efficient microtransactions
The system’s low operational cost makes new pricing models viable, from streaming micropayments to decentralized service fees.
Established AI and government-grade readiness
With strong consistency and high availability, the platform supports audit trails, verifiable decisions, and real-time inference in regulated environments.
Testimonials
Additional resources
For a deeper understanding and more insights, explore these additional resources.
Get started with Aerospike
For high-performance, scalable data management and ultra-low latency, ideal for handling massive datasets and real-time applications.