Solana Handled 10,000 Transactions per Second During the Market Chaos
Solana’s blockchain once again showcased its resilience under extreme demand, maintaining performance levels during a period of intense network activity.
According to the project’s latest update, transaction throughput soared to between 6,000 and 10,000 raw transactions per second over the past hour.
Despite the spike, Solana’s network utilization climbed close to 60 compute units (CUs) per block while median transaction fees remained notably low. Data visualizations shared by Solana show steady performance across multiple indicators, including consistent block production and minimal fee volatility even as demand surged.
Over the last hour, Solana’s network demonstrated resilience under extreme demand:
– Raw transactions spiked to 6-10k per second
– Utilization reached up near 60 CUs per block
– Median transaction fees remained low pic.twitter.com/FKV3a45v5U— Solana (@solana) October 10, 2025
The update underscores Solana’s capacity to sustain high throughput without compromising affordability or reliability – two key factors that have long defined its competitive edge in the layer-1 ecosystem. With many networks struggling during traffic surges, Solana’s stability highlights its growing maturity and technical refinement.
Recent on-chain analytics also indicate that the network efficiently processed both successful and failed transactions, balancing computational load across validators. The high throughput achieved aligns with Solana’s broader goal of providing scalable, low-cost infrastructure for decentralized applications, gaming, and tokenized assets.
As blockchain activity continues to grow, Solana’s ability to maintain high performance under pressure reinforces its reputation as one of the most technically robust platforms in the crypto space.
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Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coindoo and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
