Coinbase Ventures-backed Supra Offers $1 Million Bounty to Defeat Its Parallel EVM Execution Engine

[PRESS RELEASE – Zug, Switzerland, November 14th, 2025]

Upstairsthe first Layer-1 blockchain built for Automatic DeFi (AutoFi) via full vertical integration, is proud to announce a expanding its SupraEVM Beta Bounty. CEO and co-founder Joshua Tobkin has committed up to $1 million in proprietary $SUPRA tokens as a personal reward for any developer or research team that can demonstrate a faster, verifiably correct EVM parallel execution engine than SupraBTM, the core execution engine that powers SupraEVM.

The personal reward, touted as the SupraEVM Speed ​​Challenge, is offered in addition to an ongoing $40,000 USDC performance award offered by the foundation. To date, no participating team has surpassed the benchmarks of SupraBTM, which remains the best performer in public tests against all known EVM parallel solutions, including Monad, one of the more optimized projects in the field of high-performance EVM.

“I’m 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 strive to prove it publicly. And if someone can demonstrate a superior execution engine under clear circumstances, I will immediately honor that outcome.”

Addressing the core bottleneck in Blockchain scalability

While consensus protocols, data availability layers, and Oracle infrastructure have all undergone significant improvements in recent years, transaction execution remains a limiting factor for scaling decentralized applications. Secure and deterministic parallel execution within the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is particularly challenging, yet essential for enabling low-latency DeFi, real-time gaming, and AI-driven autonomous agents.

SupraEVM, powered by SupraBTM (Block Transactional Memory), addresses this challenge with a conflict specification-aware architecture that reduces overhead, anticipates transaction collisions, and schedules execution based on statically analyzed dependency graphs.

Benchmark Results: Superior Performance vs. Monad

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

The results showed that SupraBTM delivered:

• 1.5 to 1.7x higher throughput than Monad across different workloads
• ~4 to 7 times faster than traditional sequential EVM execution
• Consistent performance under high-contention conditions typical of DeFi and arbitrage use cases

The engine’s design avoids the need for speculative execution and frequent rollbacks, instead relying on a deterministic scheduling model that is adaptable across different thread configurations.

“Supra was built from the ground up to integrate execution, consensus and core infrastructure components into a cohesive framework,” the company said Jon JonesCBO 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 with every 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 defined test conditions. Submissions must be open source, verifiable and reproducible.

The full criteria includes:

• Processing a minimum of 100,000 consecutive Ethereum mainnet blocks
• Run on commodity hardware with no more than 16 CPU cores
• Achieving at least a 15 percent performance increase across 4-, 8-, and 16-thread configurations
• Publish benchmark results publicly and subject them to independent and community verification
• Code must be released under an open source license and remain accessible for audits

Participants can choose to claim the reward directly, or continue working with Supra’s engineering organization. Token rewards come from Tobkin’s personal allotment, unlock in 2027, and vest over two years. The price is independent of Supra’s core business or finances.

“This challenge addresses the core technical issue that continues to limit the EVM,” Tobkin added. “The goal is to find or validate the best possible execution engine. If someone can build a better system than what we achieved at Supra, the industry should recognize it and benefit from it.”

For complete technical documentation, rules and binaries for the SupraEVM Beta Bounty, users can visit the dedicated bounty page documents pagewith in-depth details of the $1 million SupraEVM Speed ​​Challenge available at the special landing page. Supra’s engineering team has provided an in-depth benchmark report comparing SupraBTM and Monad their websitewhile developers interested in early SupraEVM access can sign up for the waitlist here.

About Supra

Upstairs is the first chain built for Automatic DeFi (AutoFi), a new self-operating automated financial system that also serves as the perfect framework for crypto AI Agents, built on the vertically integrated Layer-1 blockchain with built-in fast smart contracts, native price oracles, system-level automation, and bridgeless cross-chain messaging.

Supra’s vertical stack unlocks entirely new AutoFi primitives that can generate fair recurring protocol revenue and redistribute it across the ecosystem, completely reducing reliance on inflationary block rewards over time. This stack also provides onchain AI agents with all the tools they need to automatically, autonomously, and securely execute a wide range of powerful DeFi workflows for users.