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Is Ethereum Still Worth Buying After Being Overtaken by Faster Networks?
Even if the interface for your investment account might be a bit clunky sometimes, generally speaking, almost everyone expects their financial technologies to perform fairly quickly. On that front, Ethereum processes about 15 to 36 transactions per second (TPS), and the average token swap is completed in around 12 seconds as of May 8. But that paltry sum looks embarrassing when stacked against the competition. Solana, for instance, processes as many as 4,700 TPS. It also wraps up swaps in around a second. So is there any point in ever buying Ethereum, given how much slower and lower-throughput it is compared to ... (full story)
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