How fast is Kaspa's transaction throughput today?

The current Kaspa node software, rusty-kaspa, has been measured at 3,000 transactions per second on ordinary consumer hardware. This figure comes from benchmarking the production software that runs on the network right now — not a laboratory prototype or a roadmap promise. To put it in perspective, Visa processes approximately 1,700 transactions per second on average globally, and rusty-kaspa already exceeds that on commodity hardware. For a beginner, throughput matters because it determines whether a network can handle everyday payment volume at scale without creating a backlog of unconfirmed transactions.