Solana daily transactions reach record 172M on August 10

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 ...