- VECTOR is tackling some of Cardano’s most urgent issues, such transaction finality and scalability, without requiring significant protocol modifications.
- VECTOR maintains Cardano’s fundamental UTxO paradigm while modifying it for high-assurance, high-throughput settings.
The official launch of VECTOR will be announced by Apex Fusion this Saturday at Rare Evo. High-performance UTxO-based blockchain built for instantaneous transaction finality and institutional-grade throughput makes up the peer-reviewed testnet. Core developers from Cardano’s early days developed VECTOR, which adhered to the company’s initial goal and expanded upon its underlying vision.
VECTOR is tackling some of Cardano’s most urgent issues, such transaction finality and scalability, without requiring significant protocol modifications, while Cardano is still developing. Moreover, VECTOR, which was created closely with Cardano’s initial architects, represents a major ecosystem advancement and directly addresses persistent issues with transaction finality delay and scalability for financial applications.
VECTOR: Institutional Performance, Cardano DNA
VECTOR maintains Cardano’s fundamental UTxO paradigm while modifying it for high-assurance, high-throughput settings. VECTOR provides deterministic settlement and MiCA-aligned compliance features, and is designed for performance-critical applications like DeFi, tokenized treasuries, and stablecoin infrastructure.
Some of Cardano’s most renowned technical contributors have independently and thoroughly evaluated the protocol’s architecture:
- Duncan Coutts, Architect of Cardano and Director at Well Typed
- Neil Davies and Peter Thompson, Co-founders of Predictable Network Solutions
Their joint report, commissioned by Apex Fusion Foundation and to be released at Rare Evo, verifies VECTOR’s performance claims: - 10 times throughput versus Cardano mainnet
- 99.9 percent transaction finality within 13 seconds
- 98.6 percent immediate finality under performance-optimized conditions
Instant finality has been independently verify for the first time in a Cardano-aligned chain.
Duncan Coutts, Co-Founder of Well-Typed and Architect of Cardano stated:
“VECTOR shows how the UTxO model can evolve to meet institutional demands without compromising its foundational strengths.”
Targeting Real World Financial Use Cases
From high-volume lending, trading, and staking protocols to stablecoins and payment infrastructure that comply with MiCA, VECTOR is built to enable a wide variety of financial applications. Along with real-world asset tokenization with deterministic settlement guarantees, it also makes cross-chain asset issuance and redemption possible. VECTOR presents itself as the first UTxO-based infrastructure that can handle institutional-grade finance at scale, with performance confirmed by peer-reviewed methodologies.
Using state-of-the-art technology, Apex Fusion joins isolated UTXO and account-based networks to enable seamless asset transfer, development, and expansion across various yet compatible protocols, therefore unleashing the full potential of blockchain. The PRIME Chain, which is the foundation of Apex Fusion’s ecosystem, is run by a decentralized network of validators using the Ouroboros proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, which is known for becoming increasingly secure with scale.
