The chain has been designed to overcome all the limitations of the previous generation of blockchain platforms, sometimes referenced as the blockchain trilemma: decentralization, security and scalability. To improve on one of these aspects, it will have to come at the expense of one of the other two. Fantom tried to solve this thanks to its DAG (Directed Acyclic Graphs) based Lachesis aBFT (Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant) consensus mechanism, allowing it to be high-performance, scalable and secure. Initial benchmarks showed that Fantom can easily handle over 20,000 transactions per second.