Zama CEO Says GPU Benchmark Hit 1,000 Confidential Transfers Per Second, With Mainnet Still Pending

Zama CEO Rand Hindi said the fully homomorphic encryption firm has reached 1,000 confidential transfers per second on GPUs, calling the figure a milestone for privacy tech. The number was shared by Hindi on X and is based on a company-reported benchmark rather than a live production deployment. Zama has not enabled that performance on mainnet, and no public testing methodology accompanied the claim. Hindi said the result marks a jump from 0.2 tps, the level Zama showed when it first demoed an FHE smart contract at ETHcc in 2022. He framed that as a 5,000x improvement over four years. He also said an FHE node now costs about $0.000004 per ERC7984 transaction to run, adding that this is orders of magnitude cheaper than zero-knowledge proofs, though that comparison was presented as his own characterization and was not independently verified in the report. The company plans to activate the performance on mainnet by the end of the year. Hindi linked the target to Zama’s rollout on chains faster than Ethereum, where users expect low latency, high throughput, and near-zero gas fees. Zama also said it aims for 10,000 tps by 2028 and 100,000 tps by 2030, goals that remain dependent on further advances in cryptography, engineering, and hardware.