Supra, backed by Coinbase Ventures, offers $1 million bounty to overcome parallel EVM execution engine

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Posted: November 14, 2025 10:10 AM Updated: November 14, 2025 10:10 AM

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Chainwire, Zug, Switzerland, November 14, 2025

Supra, the first layer 1 blockchain built for AutoFi (AutoFi) with full vertical integration, is proud to announce the expansion of the SupraEVM beta bounty. CEO and co-founder Joshua Tobkin has pledged up to $1 million worth of $SUPRA tokens as a personal bounty to any developer or research team who can demonstrate an EVM parallel execution engine that is faster and verifiably more accurate than SupraBTM, the core execution engine that powers SupraEVM.

The individual bounty, called the SupraEVM Speed ​​Challenge, is in addition to the foundation’s ongoing $40,000 USDC performance-based reward. To date, no participating team has surpassed the benchmark established by SupraBTM. SupraBTM maintains top performance in public testing against all known EVM parallel solutions, including Monad, one of the more optimized projects in the high-performance EVM space.

“I’m betting $1 million of my tokens that no one can beat Supra,” said the co-founder and CEO. Joshua Tovkin. “Supra is built on transparency. We claim to be the fastest, so we aim to prove it publicly. And if someone can demonstrate a good running engine in clear terms, I will directly respect the results.”

Addressing key bottlenecks in blockchain scalability

Consensus protocols, data availability layers, and oracle infrastructure have all improved significantly in recent years, but transaction execution remains a limiting factor for scaling decentralized applications. Secure, deterministic parallel execution within the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is particularly challenging but essential for enabling low-latency DeFi, real-time gaming, and AI-based autonomous agents.

SupraEVM, powered by Block Transactional Memory (SupraBTM), addresses these issues through a conflict specification-aware architecture that reduces overhead, predicts transaction conflicts, and schedules execution based on a statically analyzed dependency graph.

Benchmark results: superior performance compared to Monad

SupraBTM was benchmarked on 10,000 Ethereum mainnet blocks and tested head-to-head against Monad’s two-phase execution (2PE) approach using the same commodity hardware (16-core AMD 4564P CPU with 192GB RAM).

Results show that SupraBTM provides:

• 1.5-1.7x higher throughput than Monad across a variety of workloads
• ~4-7x speedup compared to traditional sequential EVM execution
• Consistent performance under high-conflict conditions common in DeFi and arbitrage use cases

The engine design eliminates the need for speculative execution and frequent rollbacks and instead uses a deterministic scheduling model that can be applied to a variety of thread configurations.

“Supra was built from the ground up to integrate execution, consensus and core infrastructure components into a cohesive framework,” he said. john jonesHe is the CBO and co-founder of Supra. “The result is an architecture that not only delivers performance, but does so in a way that is reproducible and testable against the known parallel EVM engines available today.”

Challenge Guidelines and Structure

A token commitment of $1 million is available to developers or research teams that can create a faster EVM execution engine under defined test conditions. Submissions must be open source, verifiable and reproducible.

The full criteria are as follows:

• Process at least 100,000 consecutive Ethereum mainnet blocks
• Runs on commodity hardware with 16 or fewer CPU cores
• Achieve at least 15% performance improvement in 4, 8, and 16 thread configurations
• Publish benchmark results publicly and submit them to community and independent verification
• Code must be released under an open source license and remain accessible for auditing.

Participants can also claim compensation directly or work in partnership with Supra’s engineering organization. Token rewards will come from Tobkin’s private allocation, unlocked in 2027 and vested over two years. The prize money is separate from Supra’s core operations or finances.

“This challenge focuses on the key technology issues that continue to constrain EVMs.” Tovkin Added. “The goal is to find or validate the highest performing execution engine possible. If someone can build a better system than what we achieved in Supra, the industry should recognize and benefit from it.”

For full technical documentation, rules, and binaries for the SupraEVM Beta Bounty, users can visit the bounty’s dedicated documentation page, and more information about the $1 Million SupraEVM Speed ​​Challenge available on a dedicated landing page. Supra’s technical team has made an in-depth benchmark report comparing SupraBTM and Monad available on their website, and developers interested in early SupraEVM access can join the waitlist here.

Introduction to Supra

Supra is the first chain built for AutoFi (AutoFi), a new self-operating automated financial system that also serves as a complete framework for crypto AI agents, built on a vertically integrated layer 1 blockchain with embedded high-speed smart contracts, base price oracles, system-level automation, and bridgeless cross-chain messaging.

Supra’s vertical stack unlocks an all-new AutoFi native feature that can generate fairly recurring protocol revenue and redistribute it across the ecosystem, completely reducing reliance on block rewards that inflate over time. This stack also provides on-chain AI agents with all the tools they need to automatically, autonomously, and securely execute a variety of powerful DeFi workflows for users.

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