RISE Testnet is now live, unlocking Infinite Speed for the Masses
RISE Testnet is officially live, marking the debut of the fastest blockchain, secured by Ethereum. RISE achieves real time performance by leveraging a combination of Shreds and other innovations that result in 10 millisecond round trip latency, making it significantly faster than the competition. But being the fastest, while impressive, isn’t the full story.
RISE introduces a new category of performance: Infinite Speed–where speed and decentralization coexist. Achieving high throughput and low latency often comes at the cost of decentralization. Centralized approaches to achieve high performance often result in censorship vulnerability, downtime, and central points of failure; defeating the main purpose of blockchain technology. Without these centralization risks, RISE offers speed that is not only real-time, but also unstoppable…speed that is infinite.
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Shredded for Speed
To put it simply, where traditional chains encounter bottlenecks around execution and resource-heavy operations, RISE focuses on breaking bigger parts into smaller ones; enabling early, overlapping or simultaneous processing where possible.
The biggest game changer in the stack is Shreds, enabling RISE to achieve an industry-first: 10ms round trip latency, which translates into instant transaction confirmation and real time user experience.
Shreds are small, verifiable sub-blocks that partition an L2 block into finer units as little as 1 millisecond for faster processing and propagation. Because each Shred does not require merkleization, users receive transaction preconfirmations within milliseconds rather than waiting for the entire block.
This dramatically reduces round trip latency by removing resource-heavy merkleization from the critical path and enabling early state updates across nodes. By broadcasting Shreds as they're produced, the network achieves sub-blocktime responsiveness, while final block commitment and merkleization occur asynchronously.
The significance of Shreds and their enormous impact on latency is highlighted when RISE’s latency is compared with that of other blockchains.
Controlling for geographic latency differences to accurately benchmark across blockchains, the average round trip latency of 10 onchain transactions per blockchain shows that RISE is over 10 times faster than the next fastest blockchain.
While these numbers don’t reflect geographic latency, they accurately reflect the real experience of a power user; who can set up software nearby and leverage RISE’s ultra low latency for improved UX, better capital efficiency, enhanced certainty for HFT and market making, and much more.
The test results also imply that while latency can be higher depending on geographic location, RISE will generally offer lower latency compared to others no matter the geographic location.
Learn more about Shreds, including latency benchmark methodology.
While latency is important, throughput is equally important. RISE is designed to stay fast, even at scale. Early benchmarks show RISE testnet can handle up to 50,000 transactions per second, with a clear path to 100,000 and beyond.
Speed Infinitely
Performance only matters if it’s here to stay. Maintaining reasonable hardware requirements while optimizing for performance is challenging, but necessary to preserve a pathway to decentralization. RISE tackled this head-on, designing the system from day one to support widely available hardware (32GB RAM standard machines) so it can evolve into a fully decentralized system, eliminating the risks that come with centralization.
Later this year, RISE will implement performance compatible Based Sequencing. Based Sequencing is a mechanism that delegates transaction ordering and execution to Ethereum’s Layer 1 validator set and a network of permissionless transaction builders, eliminating the need for a centralized sequencer. With over a million validators, Ethereum is a censorship-resistant base layer that RISE will leverage for resilience. On top of that, RISE will inherit Ethereum’s liveness as well as benefit from synchronous composability with Ethereum.
RISE is now available for anyone to experience. It’s faster than anything that came before, but more importantly, it’s the first chain built to stay fast.
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About RISE: RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain redefining performance with infinite speed—delivering instant transaction confirmation at unprecedented scale, while upholding Ethereum’s core principle of decentralization. Its unique architecture enables 10-millisecond latency, making it the fastest blockchain. RISE is also on course to exceed 100,000 transactions per second throughput capacity, enabling it to support millions of users simultaneously. By eliminating long standing barriers to blockchain adoption, RISE offers a radically improved experience for both developers and users, and unlocks a new generation of crypto applications.
Acknowledgements: RISE Shreds are inspired by Solana Shreds and many discussions with the Fabric teams. We also acknowledge the OP Stack for providing the foundation for our Layer 2 architecture and Reth for providing a performant and modular execution base for RISE to build on.