[Self-Perfection]

TON blockchain showed throughput above 100k per second, about 3x more of visa. There are other blockchains with similar throughput claims. L2 networks can give even lower fees and higher throughput.

[noosphr]

Are there any good papers on it? I've found the majority of crypto literature to be between bullshit and terrible.

[Self-Perfection]

Original whitepaper seemed rather good to me, but I have not studied it completely.

https://ton.org/whitepaper.pdf