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Abstract Cryogenic calorimetric experiments to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($$0\nu \beta \beta $$ $0\nu \beta \beta$) are highly competitive, scalable and versatile in isotope. The largest planned detector array, CUPID, is comprised of about 1500 individual Li$$_{2}$$ $_2^{}$$$^{100}$$ $_{}^{100}$MoO$$_4$$ $_4^{}$detector modules with a further scale up envisioned for a follow up experiment (CUPID-1T). In this article, we present a novel detector concept targeting this second stage with a low impedance TES based readout for the Li$$_2$$ $_2^{}$MoO$$_4$$ $_4^{}$absorber that is easily mass-produced and lends itself to a multiplexed readout. We present the detector design and results from a first prototype detector operated at the NEXUS shallow underground facility at Fermilab. The detector is a 2-cm-side cube with 21 g mass that is strongly thermally coupled to its readout chip to allow rise-times of$$\sim $$ $\sim$0.5 ms. This design is more than one order of magnitude faster than present NTD based detectors and is hence expected to effectively mitigate backgrounds generated through the pile-up of two independent two neutrino decay events coinciding close in time. Together with a baseline resolution of 1.95 keV (FWHM) these performance parameters extrapolate to a background index from pile-up as low as$$5\cdot 10^{-6}$$ $5·{10}^{-6}$ counts/keV/kg/yr in CUPID size crystals. The detector was calibrated up to the MeV region showing sufficient dynamic range for$$0\nu \beta \beta $$ $0\nu \beta \beta$searches. In combination with a SuperCDMS HVeV detector this setup also allowed us to perform a precision measurement of the scintillation time constants of Li$$_2$$ $_2^{}$MoO$$_4$$ $_4^{}$, which showed a primary component with a fast O(20 $$\upmu $$ $\mu$s) time scale.