Well, as I understand it, there&#x27;s no technical reason Ethereum can&#x27;t do the 56,000 tps. Ethereum has no fixed block size. Realistically, obviously, you&#x27;d need more and more compute power.<p>The end goal is to prevent only having large institutions running nodes and to keep the system more decentralized, hence the need for better scaling options. (Bitcoin has become more decentralized as it has aged, with fewer small nodes running)<p>And I&#x27;m not saying that Ethereum has it all solved, just that the system is different enough that some of the issues are not applicable. It&#x27;s not useful, in my opinion, to just throw up your hands and say &quot;It can never scale!!&quot;. First because there&#x27;s no absolute limitation for scaling, only things that make it costly. Back in the day, if you asked someone how the early Internet was going to scale, it would have seemed like an equally impossible task. There&#x27;s plenty of time to work on the issues before we need 56,000 tps.