Solana Hits 100K TPS with Mainnet Stress Test

Solana throughput briefly spiked to six figures under a high load of program call transactions over the weekend, according to a developer. 

Mert Mumtaz, the co-founder of the Solana developer tooling firm Helius, said on Sunday that Solana became the “first major blockchain” to record 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) on its mainnet.

He shared that a Solana block late on Sunday saw 43,016 successful transactions and 50 failed ones, claiming the total TPS reached 107,540.

However, most transactions were not token exchanges or trades but…