The network processed 171.9 million non-vote transactions in a single day, smashing its own week-old record and crossing 1 billion weekly transactions for the first time.
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byEditorial Team
Aug. 11, 2026
Solana just did something no blockchain has done before: it processed 171.9 million non-vote transactions in a single 24-hour period on August 10. That’s roughly 1,990 transactions per second, sustained across an entire day.
The new record topped Solana’s previous all-time high of 169.9 million non-vote transactions, which was set just six days earlier on August 4. Two records in under a week suggests this isn’t a one-off spike but a sustained shift in how much traffic the network can absorb.
Why “non-vote” matters
A quick but important distinction: Solana’s total transaction count includes validator consensus messages, which are essentially the network talking to itself. Non-vote transactions strip those out, leaving only activity that reflects real users doing real things, whether that’s swapping tokens, minting NFTs, interacting with DeFi protocols, or moving funds between wallets.
And the trajectory here has been steep. Back on January 30, Solana hit 148 million non-vote transactions, which felt impressive at the time. The network has since added nearly 24 million daily transactions on top of that peak, a roughly 16% increase in just over six months.
A billion-transaction week
The daily record is striking on its own, but the weekly numbers provide even more context. In the seven days leading up to August 10, Solana recorded more than 1 billion non-vote transactions.
This sustained volume didn’t materialize out of nowhere. Solana implemented a 66% increase in the maximum compute limit per block, a technical upgrade that essentially widened the network’s highway. More compute per block means more transactions can be processed without creating bottlenecks, and the recent volume suggests the upgrade is working as intended.
Institutional money follows the throughput
Wall Street appears to be paying attention. On the same day Solana set its transaction record, US spot Solana ETFs pulled in $8.8 million in net inflows. All of that capital went to the Bitwise BSOL fund, which has emerged as the primary vehicle for institutional Solana exposure.
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