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The Solana network briefly recorded over 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) on its mainnet under a high load of program call transactions, block data shows.
Mert Mumtaz, the co-founder of the Solana developer tooling firm Helius, pointed out on X that Solana became the “first major blockchain” to record 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) on its mainnet.
A block processed 43,016 successful transactions and 50 failed ones for a peak TPS of 107,540, facilitated and processed by validator “Cavey Cool. That’s over 25 times the Solana network’s usual throughput, according to data collected by the network’s explorer.
Solana already considerably usurps older blockchain networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum on the TPS front, but the Sunday peak leapfrogs Visa’s own high mark of processing up to 65,000 transactions per second.
 
However, unlike a typical Solana block filled with transactions like token exchanges or meme coin debuts, the experimental blocks instead were loaded with “votes, a few normal transactions, and a significant number of ‘no-op’ transactions,” or those that don’t perform meaningful computation or state changes.
Nevertheless, Mumtaz emphasized that the cost to the network wasn’t insignificant: While execution compute units (CUs) are low, the “total cost” also accounts for signature verification, data loading, and other non-execution overhead.
Moreover, he believes the data revealed that Solana could theoretically handle 80,000–100,000 TPS in transfers or oracle updates under peak conditions.
Solana’s Actual TPS Is Far Lower
Notably, Solana’s real user-facing throughput is much lower than the six figures triggered by ‘noop’ program calls. The network’s real-time throughput is around 3,700, according to Solscan. Yet even that figure is spurious because almost two-thirds of the transactions are validator voting transactions.
Chainspect estimates the real throughput for payments and applications on Solana is around 1,000 transactions per second. For comparison, rival network Ethereum’s real-time throughput is approximately 20.7 transactions per second, per data from Etherscan — roughly 170 times slower than Solana.
Source: https://zycrypto.com/solana-just-became-the-first-major-blockchain-to-hit-100000-transactions-per-second-on-mainnet/