Pi Squared’s FastSet Protocol Achieves 100,000+ TPS & Sub-100ms Finality, Enabling Chains, Apps, & Agents to Scale Trustlessly
Champaign, IL, USA, August 12th, 2025, Chainwire
FastSet breaks blockchain’s total ordering constraint to enable theoretically unlimited transaction speed, with plans to reach 1 million TPS by mainnet
Pi Squared, the team building Web3 infrastructure beyond blockchain, has announced its FastSet protocol has surpassed 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) with sub-100ms finality, setting a new standard for fast, verifiable, and decentralized settlement. With mainnet performance targeted to reach 1 million TPS, this milestone marks only the beginning of what FastSet aims to deliver.
Uniquely, this performance was achieved on conventional hardware with 24-core CPUs and 256 GB of memory, making FastSet not only high-performance but also highly affordable. Unlike Solana and other high-throughput L1s and L2s that demand costly, specialized setups, FastSet validators can operate on machines that cost less than $1,000, radically lowering the barrier to participation and reinforcing FastSet’s commitment to broad decentralization.
Far more than another blockchain, FastSet is the next-gen verifiable settlement protocol purpose-built for digital assets and AI at scale. Distributed and actor-based, FastSet is built to eliminate the fragmentation, latency, and trust bottlenecks plaguing today’s Web3 infrastructure. By enabling parallel, verifiable, and cross-chain settlement without bridges or centralized coordination, FastSet empowers apps, agents, and institutions to scale trustlessly and seamlessly.
To demonstrate this breakthrough, Pi Squared will launch a public performance showcase on August 12, featuring the FastSet Wallet, a lightweight interface enabling real-time interactions with the FastSet protocol. FastSet represents the latest step in Pi Squared’s mission to solve the fragmentation, trust, and scalability limitations of today’s blockchain infrastructure. This means that apps, agents, and protocols can interact across ecosystems without relying on bridges, centralized parties, or unprovable logic. Key highlights include:
- Lightning-Fast Transactions: 100,000+ TPS & <100ms finality enables real-time applications at scale for finance, gaming, and AI.
- Verifiable by Design: Every transaction independently provable, no trust assumptions required.
- Language-Agnostic Development: Build smart contracts in Python, Rust, JS, C++, and more—no ecosystem lock-in.
- Parallel & Scalable: Forget total ordering of transactions in chains, and forget blocks, too. FastSet processes independent claims concurrently, for maximum scale.
In the context of AI agents, FastSet enables micro-payments that are super-fast and cheap. FastSet also allows interoperability between AI services across blockchains, enabling collaborative, cross-chain AI systems and agent-to-agent interaction with built-in cryptographic trust.
Across DeFi and institutional finance domains, FastSet delivers fast, secure cross-chain execution with ZK-proof protection against exploits, while also supporting atomic settlement to prevent partial trades and unlocks cross-chain liquidity for CEXs, DEXs, and institutions. Verifiable transaction records also help meet regulatory compliance while enabling scalable, composable financial products.
Grigore Roșu, Founder and CEO of Pi Squared said: “FastSet is one of the most significant achievements across both my technical and academic career since I launched the K framework in 2003. Today, the old model of total ordering and brittle bridges is collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. FastSet brings real performance to decentralized systems – fast, decentralized, and verifiable by design. As a bonus for doing things right, FastSet also offers the fastest and cheapest digital asset transfer system, including (micro) payments for AI agents.”
To help stress test and showcase FastSet’s high TPS, the team is launching a community game in the coming days. Game participants can visit the FastSet Wallet during a coordinated play window and click to generate 10–100 transactions per click, and earn points based on activity. Users can follow the Pi2 X account for game details and updates.
The announcement follows the recent launch of Pi Squared’s VSL Devnet, the first live environment of its Verifiable Settlement Layer, a decentralized network enabling transparent, programmable, and provable execution across chains, AI systems, and applications. Having raised $12.5 million in seed funding last year, Pi Squared is conducting an additional strategic raise, which will accelerate its mission to fix what today’s blockchain infrastructure can’t: scalability, fragmentation, and trust.
About Pi Squared
Pi Squared is building FastSet—the next-gen verifiable settlement protocol purpose-built for digital assets at scale and AI. FastSet is not another blockchain. It’s infrastructure for thousands of future chains, apps, and agents to settle claims quickly, verifiably, and in parallel, without the bottlenecks of traditional consensus-based systems.
To learn more, users can visit: https://pi2.network/