According to @ItsDave_ADA, a 64,000 TPS burst was achieved on Cardano Hydra by moving real ADA among three participants on Layer 2 in a live ring to simulate high-frequency trading. Source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Dec 6, 2025, https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1997425041336598963 The run executed on a single standard Mac laptop with three Hydra participants on the Cardano Preview test network plus a full Cardano Preview node, confirming this was a Preview environment test rather than mainnet. Source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Dec 6, 2025, https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1997425041336598963

According to @ItsDave_ADA, he scripted and brought online a full multi-party Hydra head after resetting the environment, configuring verification keys, restarting the stack, running the Init transaction, and committing three participants, confirming an end-to-end setup was achieved (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Dec 2, 2025, https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1995957350914474241). He added that he plans to open source what he can to improve Hydra adoption, indicating forthcoming code releases that others can use to replicate the process (source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Dec 2, 2025, https://twitter.com/ItsDave_ADA/status/1995957350914474241). Hydra is Cardano’s layer-2 “head” protocol intended to scale transaction processing via off-chain state channels, providing low-latency settlement pathways relevant to ADA utility and network throughput, per official Hydra documentation (source: Hydra documentation by Input Output Global, https://hydra.family).