Throughput

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It is a measure of how many actions are completed within a given time frame. In the blockchain, the throughput transaction refers to the rate of how fast a blockchain processes transactions that is usually expressed in the Transactions Per Second (TPS) but it might also be expressed in hours (TPH) or minutes (TPM). For increasing the throughput of a blockchain, the developers utilizes various methods like the sidechains, rollups, new consensus mechanisms, state channels and block size increases.

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