During a recent stress test, the Solana blockchain demonstrated impressive speed, processing 107,540 transactions per second (TPS). This was reported by Mert Mumtaz, co-founder of Helius. Specifically, one of the network's blocks on August 17 managed to process 43,016 transactions, of which only 50 ended with an error. Most of them were test transactions — without real computations, created solely to check the throughput.
According to Mumtaz, even taking into account the test nature of the load, Solana is capable of consistently maintaining speeds within the range of 80,000–100,000 TPS for regular actions — such as fund transfers, oracle updates, and other basic operations.
In real conditions, the performance is lower. According to Solscan data, the current speed is about 3700 TPS. At the same time, about two-thirds of the transactions are internal actions of validators supporting consensus, which are not useful to users.
Experts estimate the real efficiency of Solana at 1004–1050 TPS — this is approximately 59 times more than the main Ethereum network. Over the past month, the number of active addresses in the network reached 80.9 million, and the total number of transactions exceeded 2.4 billion.
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