- @megaeth_labs hit their billionth testnet block yesterday.

- @base flashblocks brought latency down to 200ms.
- @monad_xyz acquired Portal to build payment rails at 10k TPS.

The infrastructure finally matches the ambition.

What’s interesting is how builders are responding:
For example, @avantisfi immediately integrated flashblocks, dropping their execution time from 2 seconds to 200ms. For their Zero Funding Perps where rates update every second, this changes everything. You’re now trading in real-time, fully onchain.

MegaETH’s builder survey revealed the mindset shift:
63% of applicants focused on their 512kb contract limit over speed.
Builders want to consolidate complex logic into single contracts, not fragment across multiple deployments.

They’re designing for post-performance blockchains.

Monad’s Portal acquisition shows where this can lead.
They’re not talking about consensus mechanisms anymore.
They’re building “the blockchain of choice for stablecoin transactions.”
Pure product focus.

The performance bottleneck is dead.

Now we see what builders create when chains stop being the limiting factor:
> Integrated financial engines
> Real-time perps
> Seamless payment flows
—> and more.

Speed was never the goal. It was the prerequisite.