Solana achieved 107,664 transactions per second. Yes, one hundred seven thousand transactions. Per second. In one block.
What does it mean? Right: absolutely nothing, if you’re not a bot trading meme coins.
When speed becomes a religion
Solana has officially proven: it is the Formula 1 among blockchains. The only question is who is watching all these races. For the average user, Solana’s speed of 107,000 TPS is needed about as much as a six-lane highway in a Texas farmer's garden.
Are you buying an NFT with a monkey? You don’t care if the transaction goes through in 0.2 seconds or 2 seconds. But now you can be sure: it will be faster than you can say the word ‘Ethereum.’
The Great Battle of Blockchains
Ethereum continues to pride itself on its ‘long and reliable finalization.’ That is, you might wait for a transaction confirmation longer than it takes to prepare a turkey for Thanksgiving.
Solana, on the other hand, screams: ‘Look, we did 107,000 TPS!’ and waits for applause. And the applause sounds… mostly from the same bots that fill its blocks.
But seriously…
Of course, it’s a technological breakthrough. No one disputes that. Solana shows that blockchains can work faster than Visa and Mastercard.
And let’s be honest: in a world where every second cryptocurrency is called Doge-something, we might actually need a network that can digest all this flow of digital chaos.
The Bottom Line
Solana is like a teenager bragging that it did 500 push-ups in a minute. Impressive? Certainly. Is it needed by anyone? That’s a big question. But it sounds cool, and the market loves cool-sounding numbers.
So congratulations to Solana. Now we can sleep peacefully, knowing that somewhere deep in the blockchain, someone is pressing buttons at a speed that people can only dream of.
