Solana Smashes 100K TPS Barrier in High-Speed Stress Test Blitz

Solana just left competitors in the dust—hitting a blistering 100,000 transactions per second during a stress test. The network didn’t just flirt with scalability; it bulldozed through the milestone like a crypto-powered freight train.

Speed demon or hype machine? The numbers don’t lie. While Ethereum’s Layer 2s are still sipping coffee, Solana’s firing on all cylinders. Of course, Wall Street’s still calling it ‘speculative’—right before they quietly allocate another billion to their crypto desks.

One thing’s clear: the race for blockchain supremacy just got a nitro boost. Whether it’s sustainable or just a high-performance sugar rush remains to be seen.

Solana block with noop program call transaction spike. Source: Mert Mumtaz

Mumtaz said that even though most of the transactions were program calls, developers could still “deduce that you can also theoretically do about 80-100k tps in transfers, oracle updates, and similar [operations].”

Solana’s real TPS much lower 

Solana’s actual throughput is much lower than these anomalous spikes caused by no-action program calls. 

Total TPS is currently around 3,700 according to Solscan, but even that figure is spurious because around two-thirds of the transactions are voting transactions. 

Solana validators must regularly submit vote transactions to participate in consensus, and hundreds of them voting multiple times per slot inflates the network’s true TPS figures. 

Real throughput on Solana is around 1,050 transactions per second, according to Solscan and around 1,004 TPS, according to Chainspect. 

Real Solana TPS is much lower than the total figures. Source: Chainspect

Memecoins still dominate 

Solana derives the majority of its activity from memecoins. The most popular platform on the network, with a 62% share of the total value locked, is the memecoin minting and trading platform Pump.fun, according to Solscan.

The value of Solana’s decentralized finance apps has climbed over the past few months, reaching $10.7 billion, close it its January all-time high, according to DefiLlama. 

Solana (SOL $181.21), the blockchain’s token, dipped over the weekend as crypto markets cooled, falling back to $187 from last week’s high of $208.

The token remains down 36% from its January all-time high of $293, according to CoinGecko.