# Ethereum Is Scaling

*Author: Bankless*
*Published: Nov 10, 2025*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/ethereum-is-scaling-2*

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Ethereum Is Scaling

  
  Published on Nov. 10, 2025

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**gm Bankless Nation**,
The Ethereum ecosystem continues to pick up the pace as the community continues to deliver.

***Today's Issue*** ⬇️ 

- **☀️ Need to Know: **[***Square's BTC Embrace***](https://www.bankless.com/read/news/jack-dorseys-block-brings-bitcoin-payments-to-4-million-square-merchants)
Dorsey is rolling out BTC payments to Square terminals.
- **🗣️ Analysis:** [***Ethereum's TPS Climb***](https://www.bankless.com/read/ethereum-is-scaling)
The ecosystem is moving faster than ever.

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      NEED TO KNOW
    
    
  
  
Square's BTC Payments
  

  

 

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- **🟣 Monad MON Sale to Launch on Coinbase. **Coinbase will [host](https://www.bankless.com/read/news/monad-mon-sale-to-launch-on-coinbase) the ICO of Monad's MON token on its new platform next week ahead of the chain's mainnet launch.
- 🔐** Ledger Eyes IPO Raise Amid Record Year. **Ledger is [considering](https://www.bankless.com/read/news/ledger-eyes-ipo-raise-amid-record-year) an IPO in 2026 as revenues hit nine-figures.

📸**Daily Market Snapshot: **BTC inched higher Monday as hopes of a deal to reopen the government flickered, but stock markets continued to enjoy hotter gains than tokens with the Nasdaq pumping 2.2% on the day.

Prices as of 5pm ET
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  **Crypto**
   
          $3.56T
       

  
    
    ↗ 0.4%    

   
    
    ↗ 0.9%
    
  

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  **BTC**
   
          $105,449
       

  
    
    ↗ 1.1%
  

   
    
    ↘ 1.4%  
    
  

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  **ETH**
   
          $3,536
       

  
    
    ↘ 1.1%  
  

   
    
    ↘ 1.7%     

 

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ANALYSIS

  
  
Ethereum Is Scaling

  
  
   
     
     Bankless Author: 
     
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William M. Peaster](https://www.bankless.com/author/william-m-peaster)
    
 

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2025/11/image---2025-11-10T164304.270.png)](https://www.bankless.com/read/ethereum-is-scaling)Last week, the Ethereum ecosystem (the L1 plus all rollups) punched through a new throughput record, briefly clearing 24,000 transactions per second.

Even as I write this post, the ecosystem is hitting regular spikes above 10,000 TPS on [GrowThePie](https://www.growthepie.com/ethereum-ecosystem/metrics)! These numbers are certainly a massive leap forward from Ethereum's 0.7 TPS in 2015. 

And while it took Ethereum 10 years to get to where it's at today, the modular bet is now breaking through and paying off with big performance gains. 

**Welcome to Ethereum's exponential age**. 

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2025/11/Xnapper-2025-11-10-16.36.18.png)](https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1986440364014620943)To be sure, the bulk of this current TPS surge is stemming from **Lighter**, the [newer perps L2](https://www.bankless.com/read/getting-started-on-lighter-ethereums-high-speed-perps-l2) whose custom appchain architecture minimizes what data touches Ethereum. Lighter just posts compressed state diffs and proofs to the L1 while keeping its high-frequency order flow offchain. This zk appchain design is unique in the rollups scene *today*, but more teams will experiment with this model and extend it in new directions. 

[Is Lighter Ethereum’s L2 Perp DEX? | Founder Vlad Novakovski on BanklessVlad Novakovski makes the trader-first case for Lighter—a ZK Ethereum L2 perps DEX—unpacking the Oct 10 liquidation stress test, ADL vs. LLP, and the bigger L2-vs-L1 stakes.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/icon/apple-touch-icon-580.png)Bankless![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/thumbnail/is-lighter-ethereum-s-l2-perp-dex-founder-vlad-novakovski-1760610911-1.png)](https://www.bankless.com/podcast/is-lighter-ethereums-l2-perp-dex)Beyond this design evolution, Ethereum's roadmap has plenty of ecosystem-wide advances on the way that will help the old and new players push performance gains. 

Foremost to mind is PeerDAS, which [the Fusaka upgrade](https://www.bankless.com/read/ethereum-sets-fusaka-mainnet-launch-for-december-3) will bring to mainnet next month. PeerDAS will be a powerful upgrade, as it's projected to facilitate around an 8x increase in Ethereum's blob capacity. With improved data availability and more optimizations to come, rollups are set to march past 1 million in ecosystem TPS in short order. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2025/11/image-7.png)For instance, Base hit 1,500 TPS in June 2025 with Ethereum's *current *blob limits. Blob capacity going up 8x makes 10,000+ TPS feasible for the L2 at some point next year. 

This math applies to zk appchains like Lighter, too. If Lighter can handle ~45,000 TPS today, it can potentially pass 350,000 TPS in 2026. 

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2025/11/Xnapper-2025-11-10-16.36.39.png)](https://x.com/materkel/status/1986076355570930002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)Of course, there will be impactful *project-level* advances as well. ZKsync's upcoming [Atlas upgrade](https://zksync.mirror.xyz/XrlYJN9SUbOtRn9nyqrfPyaAqot--PlUcnSRK_OF1Bs) has the potential to facilitate 15,000+ TPS for ZK Stack L2s. And that's just one stack and one upgrade. Imagine more of these kinds of innovations all across the rollups scene. 

So yes, Ethereum is scaling *horizontally*, and the prospects here are impressive as it is. But Ethereum also has considerable *vertical *scaling potential. There are ongoing efforts, like [EIP-7938](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7938) and "[Lean Ethereum](https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/07/31/lean-ethereum)," that can help the L1 reach [10,000 TPS](https://www.growthepie.com/quick-bites/ethereum-scaling) in its own right. 

With this "all of the above" approach, we can dream big. 

We *can *build a new substrate for all the world's commerce and culture. And all of that builder potential is possible precisely because Ethereum is going tall and wide in its scaling. 

*This *is the endgame – many chains spreading out to the horizon in every direction for any need, all anchored around an incredibly secure and robust network that's worthy of powering an entire civilization. 

The progress here is clear. Meanwhile, the Ethereum community will continue to create its own destiny, just as it always has. 

We know the path forward, and nothing can stop us now. 

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2025/11/Xnapper-2025-11-10-16.36.49.png)](https://x.com/internetphysics/status/1860333156303581591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)[Read on Bankless](https://www.bankless.com/read/ethereum-is-scaling)
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