- Solana recorded a 107,540 TPS peak on mainnet during a coordinated stress test.
- SOL traded near $181 today, below the $293.31 all-time high set on January 19, 2025.
Solana’s core developers pushed the network to a recorded peak of 107,540 transactions per second on mainnet during a stress exercise that saturated validators with lightweight program calls. Block data and coverage from industry outlets corroborated the spike.
Solana just did 107,540 TPS on mainnet
yes, you read that correctly
over 100k TPS, on mainnet
good luck bears pic.twitter.com/nGF9Q1b86c
— mert | helius.dev (@0xMert_) August 17, 2025
Block data records 107,540 TPS using noop program calls
The load test relied on “noop” program calls to maximize parallel execution without heavy state updates. Engineers say the method exercises the runtime, signature verification and data loading costs that contribute to Solana’s on-chain cost model, even if compute units per call remain low.
The activity clustered across specific blocks, including height 360650523, where dashboards captured the peak.
when we said 1,000,000 TPS — you didn't think we were kidding did you?
you are not gonna out engineer solana
first major blockchain with a recorded 100K TPS ***on mainnet***
I'll also get out infront of the typical reply guys
"but muurt, these are noop program calls, they're… https://t.co/pibGtbkhJP
— mert | helius.dev (@0xMert_) August 17, 2025
Context matters for investors who map throughput to user experience. Real-time dashboards show effective throughput for everyday transactions typically around the low thousands of TPS on recent days, with the Solana explorer and third-party monitors reporting figures near one thousand.
That gap reflects the difference between saturated synthetic load and the blend of transfers, oracle updates and application calls that dominate normal usage.
SOL trades near $181 as Solana DeFi TVL holds around $10.4 billion
The token traded around $181 in afternoon dealing in Nairobi on August 18. Pricing screens showed twenty four hour turnover above five billion dollars and a weekly decline of a few percentage points. The latest tick leaves SOL below its all-time high of $293.31 set on January 19, 2025.
On-chain activity remains elevated. DefiLlama’s Solana dashboard listed roughly $10.4 billion in total value locked today, with more than sixty two million transactions over the past twenty four hours and active addresses above two million.
Those usage markers, alongside fee and revenue prints, give traders additional variables to weigh against capacity headlines as they evaluate positioning.
For builders, the test indicates room to push throughput on the current hardware and client baseline.
For market participants, the operative question is whether higher sustained capacity intersects with application demand and market liquidity in a way that materially alters fee dynamics, slippage and depth across Solana venues in the weeks ahead.
At the time of this update, Solana is priced at $180.54, down 6.48 percent (a loss of $12.50) in the last 24 hours.
