Zcash assumes 50,000 TPS, with an estimated throughput of 100 MB per second.

Zcash (ZEC) developer Project Tachyon's scaling blueprint would require roughly 100MB per second of data throughput to support a hypothetical 50,000 transactions per second, cryptographer Dev Ojha said in an October 26 Bankless discussion, a figure based on an assumed transaction size of about 2KB. Ojha stressed the scenario describes a development direction rather than current performance or a confirmed launch target, noting Zcash's throughput at the time of the discussion stood at roughly 60KB/s. The gap between today's capacity and the Tachyon target underscores the scale of engineering work ahead for the privacy-focused protocol's ZEC token ecosystem. Watch for further technical disclosures on bandwidth, proof verification reductions, and any timeline commitments from the Tachyon team.