In an increasingly crowded Layer-1 field, flashy but unverifiable metrics often drown out the truth. Taraxa cuts through the noise by introducing a new performance metric: TPS per Dollar, which measures throughput achieved on mainnet against the actual cost of running a validator node.
By combining transparent on-chain data from Chainspect with validator hardware costs estimated via Google Cloud’s calculator, this study ensures results are not just theoretical hype but realized under real-world conditions. Networks relying on unrealistic assumptions and secret benchmarks simply don’t compare.
The results? Taraxa leads the world in realized throughput per dollar, delivering nearly 4,906 tx/s at under $100 a month per validator. That makes Taraxa the most resource-efficient Layer-1 network today — offering builders both high performance and low barriers to participation.