# 6. Performance Validation

**Consensus latency meets specifications:** Production deployments have achieved 26-103ms consensus depending on configuration and peer count. The multiplayer game operates at approximately 26ms with optimized parameters. Robotics deployments run in the 50-100ms range with larger peer sets and stricter fault tolerance requirements.

**Throughput scales with demand**. Benchmarks show 280,000 transactions per second in latency-optimized configurations and over 1 million TPS in throughput-optimized configurations. Real-world deployments operate well below maximum capacity, providing headroom for growth.

**Byzantine fault tolerance is validated**. Test environments deliberately inject malicious participants. Consensus continues correctly when up to f=(n-1)/3 peers fail or behave adversarially. Safety and liveness guarantees hold under attack conditions.

**Network reliability exceeds 99%**. Lattice infrastructure maintains high availability through geographic distribution, redundant Orchestrators, and automatic failover. Applications experience minimal downtime even when individual Resource Nodes fail.