Solana Processes Record 169.9 Million Transactions in a Single Day
Solana processed 169.9 million non-vote transactions on a single day this week on August 4 according to data from Blockworks. This is the most number of transactions on a single day the network has ever seen. Non-vote transactions filter out the messages validators send each other to agree on blocks, hence this number shows actual user and application activity rather than consensus overhead.
Source: Blockworks
From a weekly timeframe, transaction count has surpassed the highs set in early February and up around 55% since the lows of this year in April.
A 66% Capacity Increase That Filled in Six Days
On July 29, Solana activated a network upgrade called SIMD-0286 at the start of a new epoch, the roughly two-day cycle Solana uses to rotate validator duties. The upgrade increased the maximum compute limit in a block from 60 million to 100 million compute units or a 66% increase. Compute units essentially measure processing work, so a higher limit can accommodate more transactions per block.
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