diff --git a/services/commtest/Cargo.lock b/services/commtest/Cargo.lock
--- a/services/commtest/Cargo.lock
+++ b/services/commtest/Cargo.lock
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@
  "derive_more",
  "futures",
  "lazy_static",
+ "num_cpus",
  "prost",
  "tokio",
  "tonic",
@@ -398,9 +399,9 @@
 
 [[package]]
 name = "num_cpus"
-version = "1.13.0"
+version = "1.13.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "05499f3756671c15885fee9034446956fff3f243d6077b91e5767df161f766b3"
+checksum = "19e64526ebdee182341572e50e9ad03965aa510cd94427a4549448f285e957a1"
 dependencies = [
  "hermit-abi",
  "libc",
diff --git a/services/commtest/Cargo.toml b/services/commtest/Cargo.toml
--- a/services/commtest/Cargo.toml
+++ b/services/commtest/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 derive_more = "0.99.16"
 bytesize = "1.1.0"
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
+num_cpus = "1.13.1"
 
 [build-dependencies]
 tonic-build = "0.6"
diff --git a/services/commtest/tests/blob_performance_test.rs b/services/commtest/tests/blob_performance_test.rs
--- a/services/commtest/tests/blob_performance_test.rs
+++ b/services/commtest/tests/blob_performance_test.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,58 @@
+#[path = "./blob/blob_utils.rs"]
+mod blob_utils;
 #[path = "./lib/tools.rs"]
 mod tools;
 
+use bytesize::ByteSize;
+
+use tokio::runtime::Runtime;
+use tools::{obtain_number_of_threads, Error};
+
+use blob_utils::BlobData;
+
 #[tokio::test]
-async fn blob_performance_test() {
-  assert!(false, "not implemented");
+async fn blob_performance_test() -> Result<(), Error> {
+  let number_of_threads = obtain_number_of_threads();
+
+  println!(
+    "Running performance tests for blob, number of threads: {}",
+    number_of_threads
+  );
+
+  let mut blob_data = vec![];
+
+  for i in 0..number_of_threads {
+    let index: u64 = (i as u64) % 10;
+    blob_data.push(BlobData {
+      holder: format!("test_holder_{}", i),
+      hash: format!("test_hash_{}", i),
+      chunks_sizes: vec![
+        ByteSize::kib(200 + (300 - index * 20)).as_u64() as usize,
+        ByteSize::kib(500 + (400 - index * 20)).as_u64() as usize,
+        ByteSize::kib(700 + (500 - index * 25)).as_u64() as usize,
+      ],
+    })
+  }
+
+  let rt = Runtime::new().unwrap();
+  tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || {
+    // PUT
+    rt.block_on(async {
+      println!("performing PUT operations");
+    });
+
+    // GET
+    rt.block_on(async {
+      println!("performing GET operations");
+    });
+
+    // REMOVE
+    rt.block_on(async {
+      println!("performing REMOVE operations");
+    });
+  })
+  .await
+  .expect("Task panicked");
+
+  Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/services/commtest/tests/lib/tools.rs b/services/commtest/tests/lib/tools.rs
--- a/services/commtest/tests/lib/tools.rs
+++ b/services/commtest/tests/lib/tools.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 use bytesize::ByteSize;
 use lazy_static::lazy_static;
+use num_cpus;
+use std::env;
 
 #[allow(dead_code)]
 pub fn generate_nbytes(
@@ -33,3 +35,13 @@
 
 #[allow(dead_code)]
 pub const ATTACHMENT_DELIMITER: &str = ";";
+
+#[allow(dead_code)]
+pub fn obtain_number_of_threads() -> usize {
+  let number_of_threads_str: String =
+    env::var("COMM_NUMBER_OF_THREADS").unwrap();
+  if number_of_threads_str.is_empty() {
+    return num_cpus::get();
+  }
+  return number_of_threads_str.parse::<usize>().unwrap();
+}
diff --git a/services/scripts/run_performance_tests.sh b/services/scripts/run_performance_tests.sh
--- a/services/scripts/run_performance_tests.sh
+++ b/services/scripts/run_performance_tests.sh
@@ -10,18 +10,25 @@
   cargo test "$1"_performance_test --test '*' --manifest-path=commtest/Cargo.toml #-- --nocapture
 }
 
-list_expected () {
-  echo "Expected one of these:";
+help () {
+  echo "Usage:";
+  echo "There are two arguments you can specify";
+  echo "First is a target service:";
   echo "$SERVICES";
   echo "all";
+  echo "Second is a number of threads that you'd like to spawn.";
+  echo "It is optional, if not specified, it will fall back to a default value";
+  echo "The default value is the number of CPUs";
 }
 
 if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
   echo "No service specified" >&2
-  list_expected;
+  help;
   exit 1
 fi
 
+export COMM_NUMBER_OF_THREADS="$2"
+
 if [[ "$1" == "all" ]]; then
   for SERVICE in "$SERVICES"; do
     run_performance_test "$SERVICE"
@@ -33,7 +40,7 @@
 
 if [[ "$SERVICE" != "$1" ]]; then
   echo "No such service: $1";
-  list_expected;
+  help;
   exit 1;
 fi;