How the BSV Association built a million-TPS blockchain node using AWS

This article describes how the BSV Association built Teranode, a blockchain node achieving 1 million transactions per second using AWS infrastructure across six global regions.

• Teranode achieves 1 million consistent TPS, 66x improvement over previous SVNode
• Uses novel Merkle subtree approach enabling continuous block validation instead of episodic batching
• Deployed across six AWS regions using VPC peering and cluster placement groups for low latency
• Storage-optimized EC2 instances with NVMe SSDs for UTXO data management
• Amazon FSx for Lustre enables efficient block assembly and validation across services
• Amazon EKS orchestrates services with custom Kubernetes operator for scaling and lifecycle management
• Aerospike database for performant memory buffering; S3 for long-term UTXO retention
• Amazon Managed Prometheus and Grafana provide observability and performance monitoring
• Iterative development approach tested single-region proof of concept before multi-region scaling

The solution demonstrates how cloud infrastructure can solve blockchain scalability challenges while maintaining protocol consensus rules and network integrity.