NEAR Protocol has achieved a significant scalability milestone by reaching 1 million transactions per second (TPS) in benchmark tests. This accomplishment underscores the effectiveness of NEAR's sharded blockchain architecture, which allows for horizontal scaling without sacrificing decentralization. The milestone was achieved through engineering enhancements to the execution and consensus layers, alongside the Nightshade 2.0 upgrade, which introduced stateless validation and improved efficiency. This performance boost positions NEAR to support high-volume applications in cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) and on-chain artificial intelligence (AI), further advancing the multi-chain ecosystem. The achievement highlights NEAR's potential to handle large-scale applications, reinforcing its role in the evolving blockchain landscape.