Yes. Stellar announced Project Thruput on Oct. 28 as a tech preview of unrationed blockchain compute, live on FutureNet with open code and benchmarks.

Yes. Stellar announced Project Thruput on Oct. 28 as a tech preview of unrationed blockchain compute, live on FutureNet with open code and benchmarks.

It is a new execution model that drops the single global ordering bottleneck so execution runs in parallel and capacity grows by adding machines.

The 7.02M figure is an early single-validator benchmark, from 1.18M payments/sec on one machine to 7.02M on eight, per Cointelegraph. It is engine throughput, not mainnet speed, with no per-transaction fees.

Stellar frames it for 10 billion people plus AI agents. XLM traded around $0.169 on Oct. 29, down about 1.7% on the day, per exchange quotes.