
Solana briefly recorded greater than 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) on its mainnet over the weekend, block information exhibits.
A block processed 43,016 profitable transactions and 50 failed ones for a peak of 107,540 TPS, facilitated and processed by validator “Cavey Cool.”
The spike was pushed by no-operation, or “noop,” program calls, or light-weight directions required in each transaction that don’t change state however can be utilized to stress-test community capability.
Critics argue that such hundreds are synthetic. However Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz mentioned in an X publish that the fee to the community wasn’t trivial: Whereas execution compute models (CUs) are low, the “complete value” additionally accounts for signature verification, information loading and different non-execution overhead.
That makes them akin to a low-cost oracle replace, somewhat than meaningless spam.
As such, precise user-facing throughput is much decrease as of Monday morning. On-chain tracker Solscan exhibits a median of three,500 TPS, practically two-thirds of that are validator vote transactions.
Chainspect and Solscan peg efficient throughput for funds and purposes at roughly 1,000 TPS.
Nonetheless, the info confirmed that Solana may theoretically maintain 80,000–100,000 TPS in actual operations like transfers or oracle updates below peak circumstances — enhancing the attraction of the community’s SOL (SOL) token.