Hyperscale Open Source

Overview

Hyperscale is Radix's proof-of-concept for sharded, linearly scalable consensus. Led by Timan following Dan Hughes' passing, the project demonstrated that the Cerberus-derived architecture can achieve extraordinary throughput with real DeFi workloads — not just simple transfers.

Current Status

The public test achieved 500,000+ sustained TPS with an 800,000 peak across 128 shards, processing real DeFi swaps. The test involved 590+ nodes in a public network, with 384 bootstrap nodes and 40 validators running on commodity hardware.

All code, configurations, and tooling are being fully open-sourced. The interim phase was closed on February 20, 2026, transitioning the work into the broader Xi'an development effort and community-driven implementations.

Key Details

The Hyperscale results validated several critical assumptions for Xi'an:

• Linear scalability — throughput scales with shard count
• Commodity hardware — no specialized infrastructure required for validators
• Real workloads — DeFi swaps, not just token transfers
• Large network — 590+ nodes participated in the public test

The open-sourcing ensures that the community can build upon this foundation, as evidenced by the hyperscale_rs community implementation.

External Links

• Hyperscale Update: 500k Public Test Done
• Interim Hyperscale: Closing the Chapter