PANews reported on May 30 that according to Cointelegraph, Coinbase's Layer2 network Base once processed nearly 1,000 transactions per second, making its performance closer to Layer1 blockchain Solana. On May 29, Base founder Jesse Pollak said at X that during the token issuance on the Virtuals AI platform, Base continued to maintain a processing capacity of nearly 1,000 TPS. Chainspect data shows that Base's instantaneous peak reached 959 TPS, with a theoretical maximum of 1429 TPS, but the real-time TPS remained at around 156, which was driven by the issuance of tokens or meme coin transactions on Base by other platforms. Basescan reports that the network's current TPS is 137.

By comparison, Solana’s current throughput is 1,039 transactions per second, according to Chainspect (which strips out things like voting transactions). Solscan reports a similar “real TPS” figure of 1,029.