On August 15, Solana announced that its daily transaction count had surpassed the total of all regional stock exchanges and is now approaching NASDAQ’s level. With a speed of around 400 transactions per second, Solana stated that it is close to matching NASDAQ’s weekly and peak daily trading volumes. A new website was also launched to track the “flippening” between Solana and NASDAQ, providing detailed comparisons of trading metrics. This move underscores Solana’s ambition to position itself as a direct competitor to traditional financial markets, amid ongoing debates in the crypto community about blockchain scalability and performance compared to Ethereum.