Radix Week in Review: Hyperscale, One Month Open

The week in brief

• One month after the Foundation published all of the Hyperscale code, anyone can rebuild its 500,000-transaction-per-second result for themselves.
• Development of Hyperscale is now community-led; the Foundation has closed its own chapter on it.
• March is the last month of the first phase of the validator subsidy taper.
• The Radix Accountability Council is six weeks in, with the Gateway bid still open and no decision announced.
• Quack Space is building Radix wallet login for Bluesky, the open social network.
• The proposal to move the official developer documentation onto this wiki is still gathering replies.

A month ago the Foundation put every line of Hyperscale on GitHub, along with its documentation and the tooling used to run it. The point of that, and it has now arrived, is that the headline result stops being a claim and becomes something anyone can check.

Hyperscale is Radix's design for splitting a network into shards, which are independent slices that process transactions in parallel while still agreeing with each other. The published result is a sustained 500,000 transactions per second, with peaks above 800,000, across 128 shards; and the property that matters more than the headline is that doubling the shards from 64 to 128 doubled the throughput, which is what the design predicted. Anyone can now fork the code, run the benchmark on their own machines and build on top of it.

The subsidy enters its last phase but one

March is the final month of phase one of the validator subsidy wind-down, which a vote of 740.7 million XRD across 604 accounts approved by 71.6%. The cap falls from USD 200 a month to USD 100 in April, administered by the incoming community entity rather than the Foundation, and stops in June.

Validators are the machines that agree transactions, and their operators charge a fee on the staking rewards they pass back. Since mainnet launched, the subsidy has covered the gap between those fees and the cost of running the machines. From June the fees have to cover it alone, so operators who have not repriced have three months to do it.

Six weeks of the council

The Radix Accountability Council is five community-elected members: Peachy, Jazzer_9F, Avaunt, projectShift and Tadkis. Six weeks into its mandate its work is the handover: running the bidding for the Gateway and Connect Relay, forming the Radix DAO, and being answerable for both.

The Gateway bid is still the live argument on RadixTalk, where the unresolved question is the aggregator architecture and what an operator model should look like. The council facilitates and does not choose; the choice belongs to a community vote. Nothing was decided this week.

Radix identity on an open social network

Quack Space is building login and identity infrastructure that connects Radix wallets to Bluesky, the social network built on the AT Protocol. It uses ROLA, the mechanism by which a Radix wallet proves who it is to a website without a transaction, together with XRD domain names, so a wallet can stand as a Bluesky identity.

The approach is worth noting because it does not build a social network. It attaches Radix's identity primitives to one that already has users. The project also describes a peer-to-peer fixed-rate lending component settled atomically through Radix sub-intents, which suggests a financial layer planned on top of the social graph.

The week on the ledger

Read from the Radix Gateway as the ledger stood at midday on 22 March 2026, epoch 293,129, against the same reading a week earlier.

Stake recovered most of the previous week's fall, and four validators dropped off the registered list without changing the active set, which is the hundred largest and is the only group that agrees transactions.

Concentration watch

Eight validators held a third of all staked XRD, unchanged on the week, and 15 held half.

This week on the wiki

Three pages were updated: Hyperscale, with the open-source milestone and the benchmark figures; the Radix Accountability Council, with what it is currently working on; and the validator subsidy sunset, with the phase timetable and the handover to the community entity.

What to watch

• The subsidy cap halving on 1 April, and which validators have repriced before it does.
• A decision on the Gateway bid, which has now been open for two weeks without one.
• An independent Hyperscale benchmark run by somebody other than the Foundation.

Corrections

This issue originally listed Faraz as a sitting member of the council. He had been replaced by Tadkis in February, as the previous issue said; the list above is corrected.

It also carried a note that the source for Quack Space was unverified. An unverified claim should not have been published with a promise to check it later, so that section now says only what the project itself describes.

Next: the subsidy halves, and the council has to turn a thread about the Gateway into a decision.

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Previously: The Foundation invited outside operators to take over three services it runs itself, and the elected council that will oversee the process took its seat.

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