Altcoins News
By Maheen Hernandez
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Developer Confirms Record Spike. Mumtaz shared that during one block late Sunday, Solana processed 43,016 successful transactions…
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Real-World Throughput Remains Lower. Despite the milestone, Solana’s practical throughput is much lower than the stress test results…
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A Step Forward for Blockchain Scalability. The achievement is nonetheless significant. Solana’s ability to handle a sudden load of over…
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Solana’s Growing DeFi Ecosystem. Beyond throughput, Solana’s ecosystem has been steadily expanding.
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Market Reaction. Despite the technical achievement, Solana’s native token SOL saw modest price movement.
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Looking Ahead. While Solana’s 100,000 TPS milestone does not reflect everyday throughput, it underscores the…
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Solana has reached a new milestone in blockchain performance, briefly surpassing 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) during a stress test over the weekend.
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According to Mert Mumtaz, co-founder of developer tooling firm Helius, Solana became the first large-scale blockchain to achieve six-figure TPS on mainnet, a feat that has long…
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Mumtaz shared that during one block late Sunday, Solana processed 43,016 successful transactions and 50 failed ones, briefly pushing throughput to an unprecedented 107,540 TPS.
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He clarified, however, that these were not typical payment or smart contract execution transactions.
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Because every Solana transaction must contain at least one instruction, the noop program provides a minimal-computation option, often used to test or stress network capacity.
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“Even though most of the transactions were program calls, we can deduce that you can also theoretically do about 80–100k TPS in transfers, oracle updates, and similar…
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However, this number is somewhat misleading because approximately two-thirds of all Solana transactions are validator votes — consensus-related messages that are necessary for…
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When filtering out consensus votes, Solana’s real throughput for user and application transactions stands closer to 1,000 TPS.
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Chainspect places the figure slightly lower, at about 1,004 TPS.
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