Sui's 40M TPS record traced to 7,680 tunnels run by a single operator

A developer rebuilt Sui's 40,614,180 TPS record from mainnet settlement data, finding a peak of 39.86 million TPS at 08:46 UTC on 7 October — within 1.85% of the official figure. All 7,680 tunnels that produced the record were opened and funded by one address in ten waves of 256, each running about 5,230 offchain updates per second.

• Rebuilt curve peaks at 39,862,531 TPS, 1.85% below the official 40,614,180
• All 7,680 tunnels were opened and funded by a single address in ten waves of 256
• 15.24 billion offchain updates committed via 11,502 mainnet transactions for 85.74 SUI in gas
• 593 tunnels with no counterparty updates were force-closed after a fixed 3- or 6-hour window