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By Jean-Luc Maracon
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What Changed at Epoch 1,035. The shift was made possible partly by Solana's move to the QUIC protocol, which broke the old…
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Speed Goals and Record Transaction Volumes. The byte limit isn't the only thing Solana's been tweaking.
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Infrastructure Has to Keep Up. RPCs, indexers, block explorers — all of them need to update their systems to properly decode v1…
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Solana flipped a major switch on September 15. The network activated its new v1 transaction format at the start of epoch 1,035, pushing the maximum transaction size from 1,232…
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For most people sending SOL wallet-to-wallet, it's probably not going to feel like anything changed. But for developers building on the network, it's a pretty big deal.
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Legacy transaction formats aren't going anywhere. Existing wallets stay compatible. But developers who want to actually use the extra space need to adopt the v1 format.
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The Token-2022 update is probably the clearest example of why this matters. That upgrade compresses a set of complex operations into a single atomic transaction — one that…
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Not a small thing for developers who've been working around the old limit for years.
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The byte limit isn't the only thing Solana's been tweaking. Block creation time is currently being cut from 400 milliseconds down to 350 milliseconds, with further reductions…
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And the network is clearly being used. Solana logged a record 4.2 billion transactions in July. That's not a small number.
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Larger transactions do mean more bandwidth and more storage per transaction. The v1 format doesn't triple the transaction count, it just gives each transaction more capacity.
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RPCs, indexers, block explorers — all of them need to update their systems to properly decode v1 transactions. If they don't, they'll misread the data or choke on it entirely.
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Solana's core team seems aware of it. The upgrade was rolled out at epoch 1,035 with the expectation that infrastructure providers would be ready or close to it.
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