# kaal:claim:3396522-032

**Claim.** The low transaction throughput of public blockchains is a core limitation holding back more advanced distributed applications and, with them, decentralized commerce.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- as of 2019 throughput levels

**Source quote.**

> The low transaction throughputs of public blockchains158 is a core limitation that holds back more advanced DApps.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vadhindran K. Rao, *Stable Cryptocurrencies* (2019), IV. Stable Cryptocurrencies, 9. Enabling Global Decentralized Commerce, page 41

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vadhindran K. Rao, Stable Cryptocurrencies (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3396522

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `ef5031b16aa53476ed618f0bdf92601cd4affb893692c701134bd9cba3ea8acf` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20et%20al.%20-%202019%20-%20Stable%20Cryptocurrencies.pdf

**Failure mode.** throughput-bottleneck  (family: scalability-and-throughput-limit)

**Topics.** decentralization, blockchain

**Keywords.** throughput, scalability, dapps, decentralized-commerce, public-blockchain

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