- Zilliqa is a new high-throughput blockchain platform that is designed to scale in an open, permissionless distributed network securely. At Ethereum’s present network size of 30,000 miners, Zilliqa would expect to process about a thousand times the transaction rates of Ethereum. In the most recent experiments, the Zilliqa private testnet network recorded a peak throughput of 2,488 transactions with 3,600 nodes.
- Difficult to upgrade Existing Protocols: The limitations in scaling up existing protocols are somewhat fundamental — they are rooted in the design of the consensus and network protocols and therefore difficult to change to gain the throughput needed when mass adoption of the technology occurs