Scalability

The specifications of the x42 protocol’s main blockchain are as follows:

• Approximately 70 transactions per second;
• 1 megabyte block size (averages out at a maximum of 2,500 transactions per block);
• A new block is generated every 60 seconds (one minute block time);
• 42 million total minable coins by the proof of stake validation method over a twenty-four year period (difficulty adjustments occured at block 400,000, changing the reward for each block to 2, down from 20 x42 per block).

x42’s main blockchain only maintains the coins, most transactions will occur in the application layer of the xServer network. Developers can choose to use the main chain or off-chain solutions for their requests, be those deposits or withdrawls of x42.

Using the off-chain solution is only really limited by the processing power of that particular application. A developer could feasibly have over one trillion transactions per second if the developers had a product with the need and processing power from the hosted xServers will allow. x42’s off-chain solution is very flexible in what can be achieved, especially when taking into account talented and driven programmers.

All applications running on an xServer will require some processing power from the host machine, which in part is used to secure all transactions going through that server and all applications. The more applications you host or resource heavy apps may require more CPU, RAM, hard drive space and network bandwidth.