Solana briefly achieved over 100,000 transactions per second on its mainnet, marking a significant throughput milestone.
Solana briefly achieved over 100,000 transactions per second on its mainnet, marking a significant throughput milestone, according to Helius co-founder Mert Mumtaz. A single block recorded 43,016 successful transactions, pushing total TPS to 107,540.
However, most transactions were no-operation “noop” program calls rather than meaningful token transfers or trades. These lightweight instructions stress-test network capacity but don’t reflect everyday payment activity or complex applications.
Solana’s actual throughput remains around 3,700 TPS according to Solscan, though two-thirds are validator voting transactions. Real user transaction throughput sits closer to 1,050 TPS when excluding consensus-related activity.
The network continues deriving majority activity from meme coins, with Pump.fun holding 62% of total value locked. Solana’s DeFi ecosystem has climbed to $10.7 billion, approaching January’s all-time high as the token trades around $187.
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