About BSV Blockchain

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.

Challenge

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.

Solution

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.

Results

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.
Aerospike has enabled us to achieve our goal of creating a platform that supports boundless transactions far beyond the financial, with unmatched performance. The Aerospike database enables low and sustainable implementation costs and will scale with ease as the BSV Blockchain adds support for large-scale enterprise and governmental blockchain applications.

Siggi Óskarsson

Teranode Director, BSV Association

The potential for unboundedly scalable core systems could revolutionize financial infrastructure modernization. This implementation of Aerospike clearly demonstrates its ability to outperform traditional RDBMS banking systems, which are often unscalable and inefficient on every metric.

Behrad Babaee

Principal Solutions Architect, Aerospike