Solana briefly registered more than 100,000 transactions per year. Second (TPS) on its mainnet over the weekend, shows block data.
A block processed 43,016 successful transactions and 50 failed transactions for a highlight of 107,540 TPS, relieved and processed by Validator “Cavey Cool.”
The tip was driven by NO-Operation or “Noop” program call or light instructions required in each transaction that does not change mode but can be used to stress-test network capacity.
Critics claim that such stresses are artificial. But Helius Managing Director Mert Mumtaz said in an X-post that the cost of the network was not trivial: While execution computing units (CUS) are low, the “total cost” also draws signature verification, data loading and other non-execution overhead.
It makes them comparable to a cheap oracle update rather than meaningless spam.
As such, the actual user -facing flow is far lower from Monday morning. On-chain tracker sun scan shows an average of 3,500 TPS, of which almost two-thirds are validator voice transactions.
Chain spect and sunscan point effective flow to payments and applications of approx. 1,000 tps.
The data still showed that Solana could theoretically maintain 80,000–100,000 TPS in real operations such as transfers or Oracle updates under pointed conditions -which improves the appeal to the network’s sun (sun) token.
