Supra Expands SupraEVM Beta Bounty with Personal Commitment from CEO
Supra, a Layer-1 blockchain designed for Automatic DeFi (AutoFi) through full vertical integration, has announced an expansion of its SupraEVM Beta Bounty. Joshua Tobkin, CEO and Co-Founder, has personally committed up to $1 million worth of his own $SUPRA tokens. This bounty is offered to any developer or research team that can demonstrate an EVM-parallel execution engine that is both faster and verifiably correct compared to SupraBTM, the core execution engine powering SupraEVM.
This personal bounty, named the SupraEVM Speed Challenge, complements the foundation's ongoing $40,000 USDC performance-based reward. To date, no participating team has surpassed the benchmarks set by SupraBTM. SupraBTM currently holds the top performance position in public tests against all known EVM-parallel solutions, including Monad, which is recognized as one of the more optimized projects in the high-performance EVM space.
“I am betting $1 million of my own tokens that no one can beat Supra,” said Co-Founder and CEO Joshua Tobkin. “Supra is built on transparency. We claim to be the fastest, so we are aiming to prove it in public. And if someone can demonstrate a superior execution engine under clear conditions, I will honor that outcome directly.”
Addressing the Core Bottleneck in Blockchain Scalability
While significant advancements have been made in consensus protocols, data availability layers, and oracle infrastructure in recent years, transaction execution continues to be a limiting factor in scaling decentralized applications. Achieving safe and deterministic parallel execution within the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) presents a particular challenge, yet it is crucial for enabling low-latency DeFi, real-time gaming, and AI-driven autonomous agents.
SupraEVM, powered by SupraBTM (Block Transactional Memory), tackles this challenge with an architecture that is aware of conflict specifications. This design minimizes overhead, anticipates transaction collisions, and schedules execution based on statically analyzed dependency graphs.
Benchmark Results: Superior Performance Over Monad
SupraBTM has undergone benchmarking using 10,000 Ethereum mainnet blocks. It was tested head-to-head against Monad’s 2-Phase Execution (2PE) approach, utilizing identical commodity hardware: a 16-core AMD 4564P CPU with 192 GB of RAM.
The results demonstrated that SupraBTM achieved:
- •1.5 to 1.7 times higher throughput than Monad across various workloads.
- •Approximately 4 to 7 times speedup over traditional sequential EVM execution.
- •Consistent performance even under high-conflict conditions, which are common in DeFi and arbitrage use cases.
The engine’s design eliminates the need for speculative execution and frequent rollbacks. Instead, it relies on a deterministic scheduling model that can adapt to different thread configurations.
“Supra was built from the ground up to integrate execution, consensus, and core infrastructure components into a cohesive framework,” said Jon Jones, CBO and Co-Founder at Supra. “The result is an architecture that not only delivers performance, but does so in a way that is reproducible and testable against any known parallel EVM engine available today.”
Challenge Guidelines and Structure
The $1 million token commitment is available to developers or research teams who can produce a faster EVM execution engine under specific, defined test conditions. All submissions must be open source, verifiable, and reproducible.
The full criteria for participation include:
- •Processing at least 100,000 consecutive Ethereum mainnet blocks.
- •Execution on commodity hardware with no more than 16 CPU cores.
- •Achieving at least a 15 percent performance improvement across 4, 8, and 16 thread configurations.
- •Publishing benchmark results publicly and submitting them for community and independent verification.
- •Code must be released under an open-source license and remain accessible for audit.
Participants have the option to claim the reward directly or engage further with Supra’s engineering organization for potential collaboration. The token rewards originate from Tobkin’s personal allocation, with tokens set to unlock in 2027 and vest over two years. This prize is separate from Supra’s core operations or treasury.
“This challenge is focused on the core technical issue that continues to constrain the EVM,” Tobkin added. “The objective is to find or validate the most performant execution engine possible. If someone is able to build a better system than what we have achieved at Supra, the industry should recognize it and benefit from it.”
For comprehensive technical documentation, rules, and binaries related to the SupraEVM Beta Bounty, participants can visit the bounty’s dedicated docs page. In-depth details regarding the $1M SupraEVM Speed Challenge are available on its dedicated landing page. Supra’s technical team has also published a detailed benchmark report comparing SupraBTM and Monad on their website. Developers interested in early access to SupraEVM can join the waitlist.
About Supra
Supra is the first chain built for Automatic DeFi (AutoFi), a novel self-operating automated financial system. It also serves as an ideal framework for crypto AI Agents, built upon its vertically integrated Layer-1 blockchain. This integration includes built-in high-speed smart contracts, native price oracles, system-level automation, and bridgeless cross-chain messaging.
Supra’s vertical stack enables entirely new AutoFi primitives that can generate fair recurring protocol revenue and redistribute it across the ecosystem, ultimately reducing reliance on inflationary block rewards over time. This stack also provides onchain AI Agents with all the necessary tools to autonomously and securely execute a wide range of powerful DeFi workflows for users.