**Supra CEO Joshua Tobkin Offers $1 Million Personal Bounty for Faster EVM-Parallel Execution Engine**

Joshua Tobkin, CEO and Co-Founder of Supra, has pledged up to $1 million worth of his own UPRA tokens as a personal bounty. This reward is open to any developer or research team that can demonstrate a faster, verifiably correct EVM-parallel execution engine than SupraBTM — the core execution engine behind SupraEVM.

Dubbed the **SupraEVM Speed Challenge**, this personal bounty complements an ongoing $40,000 USDC performance-based reward provided by the Supra foundation. So far, no team has surpassed the performance benchmarks set by SupraBTM. It remains the leading engine in public tests against all known EVM-parallel solutions — including Monad, one of the most optimized projects in the high-performance EVM space.

> “I am betting $1 million of my own tokens that no one can beat Supra,” said 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.”

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### Addressing the Core Bottleneck in Blockchain Scalability

While consensus protocols, data availability layers, and oracle infrastructure have improved significantly in recent years, transaction execution remains a fundamental bottleneck limiting the scalability of decentralized applications.

Safe and deterministic parallel execution within the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is especially challenging yet crucial. It enables low-latency DeFi, real-time gaming, and AI-driven autonomous agents to function effectively.

SupraEVM, powered by **SupraBTM (Block Transactional Memory)**, tackles this challenge head-on. Its conflict-specification aware architecture reduces overhead, anticipates transaction collisions, and schedules execution based on statically analyzed dependency graphs — enabling faster and more efficient transaction processing.

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### Benchmark Results: SupraBTM Outperforms Monad

SupraBTM was benchmarked on 10,000 Ethereum mainnet blocks and tested directly against Monad’s 2-Phase Execution (2PE) approach using identical commodity hardware (16-core AMD 4564P CPU with 192 GB RAM). The results showed:

– **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 under high-conflict scenarios typical in DeFi and arbitrage use cases

Unlike systems relying on speculative execution and frequent rollbacks, SupraBTM employs a deterministic scheduling model adaptable to different thread configurations, avoiding these costly pitfalls.

> “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 reproducible and testable way against any known parallel EVM engine today.”

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### Challenge Guidelines and Structure

The $1 million token bounty is open to developers or research teams who can demonstrate a faster EVM execution engine under specific test conditions. Entries must meet the following criteria:

– Process **at least 100,000 consecutive Ethereum mainnet blocks**
– Run on commodity hardware with **no more than 16 CPU cores**
– Achieve **at least a 15% performance improvement** across 4-, 8-, and 16-thread configurations
– Publish benchmark results publicly with submissions for community and independent verification
– Release code under an **open-source license** accessible for audit

Participants can claim the reward directly or collaborate further with Supra’s engineering team. The $1 million token reward comes from Tobkin’s personal allocation, scheduled to unlock in 2027 and vest over two years. The prize is entirely independent of Supra’s core operations and 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 builds a better system than what we’ve achieved at Supra, the industry should recognize it and benefit.”

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### Additional Resources

For full technical documentation, challenge rules, and binaries related to the SupraEVM Beta Bounty, visit the dedicated [SupraEVM Speed Challenge docs 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 here](#).

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### About Supra

Supra is the first blockchain built for **Automatic DeFi (AutoFi)** — an innovative self-operating financial system framework optimized for crypto AI Agents. It is built on a vertically integrated Layer-1 blockchain featuring:

– High-speed native smart contracts
– Built-in price oracles
– System-level automation
– Bridgeless cross-chain messaging

Supra’s vertical stack delivers novel AutoFi primitives that generate fair, recurring protocol revenue, which can be redistributed to reduce reliance on inflationary block rewards over time.

This technology stack equips on-chain AI Agents with the necessary tools to autonomously and securely execute complex DeFi workflows for users — streamlining decentralized finance with automation and intelligence.

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*Stay tuned to Supra’s official channels for updates on the SupraEVM Speed Challenge and advancements in high-performance blockchain execution.*
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