European trading venue 21X and LayerZero said a private, permissioned deployment of Zero handled 10,000 order matches per second in a month-long technical pilot. They disclosed the result on November 4 and said it was about 45 times faster than the EVM layer-two setup they used as a baseline.
The partners said the test used a fully onchain central limit order book focused on US equity tokens. The result came from a controlled pilot, not sustained production trading under real market stress. Differences in network access, hardware and test conditions limit comparisons with public chains, and the benchmark does not establish how the system would perform with other workloads or meet regulated-market requirements.
