as far as i know, and some explanation from the team, Visa handles around 8000 transactions per second. Skynet Open Network uses a Tendermint DPoS consensus to achieve high throughput and finality with each chain. On a 64 validator benchmark and despite crashing validators or malicious actors, the consensus was able to achieve thousands of TPS with low latency. This is per chain. Skynet adopts a parent-chain sub-chain multichain model where it can scale out horizontally