Sui Processes Over 6 Million Transactions Per Second as AI Agents Drive Public Throughput Experiment
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, July 6th, 2026, FinanceWire
Autonomous AI agents battling across games, payments, and chat pushed Sui’s programmable tunnels to a peak of 6,086,766 TPS
Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, processed the highest number of transactions per second ever performed on its network on Saturday, July 4, 2026. The milestone was hit live during a public experiment open to anyone and witnessed by thousands during a livestream.
Made possible through “programmable tunnels,” which are offchain payment and state channels that settle to Sui mainnet when closed, the experiment invited users to log into an explorer built specifically for the event, using nothing more than an email address. Once connected, participants watched AI agents battle head-to-head across games...