Performance Analysis
Every number here has a derivation. No hand-waving.
Bandwidth Analysis
Naive PQC gossip demands ~6.3 Gbps per validator. QBit combines ZK proof aggregation, state diff compression (~3×), and a structured relay tree (amplification ~3×) to achieve ~237 Mbps total validator ingress, a ~27× reduction from naive PQC.
Naive PQC Gossip6.3 Gbps
Infeasible — datacenter only
27×bandwidth reduction
QBit SmartChain237 Mbps
Standard business fiber
Throughput Scaling
Throughput scales linearly with the number of active Sentries:
TPS = Sentries × (1,000 / T_prove)
100 Sentries
~28,571 TPS
400 Sentries (launch)
~30,000 TPS (with ~30% overhead)
500 Sentries
~100,000 TPS theoretical
Latency Breakdown
End-to-end pipeline from transaction creation to state finality:
Proof generation
3.5s
Network propagation
0.3s
STARK verification
0.02s
Consensus finality
1.8–3.0s
End-to-end
~7.5s
Pre-confirmation
<500ms
Proof Size Decomposition
Total proof size: ~147 KB per batch of 1,000 transactions.
Proof Size Breakdown
FRI layers52 KB
Deep queries50 KB
Merkle auth paths30 KB
Out-of-domain evals10 KB
Metadata5 KB
Total: ~147 KB
Verification Scaling
STARK verification time as a function of batch size:
100-tx batch
12 ms
1,000-tx batch
20 ms
10,000-tx batch
35 ms