Stripe Predicts Blockchains Need One-Billion TPS

Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison wrote in their annual letter posted to X on Tuesday that blockchains may need to process up to one billion transactions per second to support future AI agents. They cited a memecoin-driven delay that spiked per-transaction prices 35x and compared current top chains (Internet Computer Protocol ~1,196 TPS; Solana ~1,140 TPS) to highlight a substantial infrastructure gap. They argued that mass adoption requires massive scaling and universal interoperability.