Solana Founder Breaks Silence as SOL Block Limit Expands: Details

2025-07-24 14:14:33

Main Idea

Solana's co-founder discusses the network's recent block capacity expansion and performance milestones, highlighting the ease of doubling block capacity compared to BLS vote aggregation and Solana's transaction speed achievements.

Key Points

1. Solana's SIMD-0256 proposal increased the network's block capacity from 48 million to 60 million Compute Units (CUs), with plans to further raise it to 100 million CUs.

2. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko stated that doubling block capacity is easier than implementing BLS vote aggregation.

3. Solana achieved a new True TPS milestone of 1,700 transactions per second, surpassing Ethereum and its Layer 2 solutions combined.

4. The activation of SIMD-0256 has already increased Solana's block capacity to 60 million CUs, with potential for further expansion.

5. At the time of reporting, SOL's price was down 7.53% in the last 24 hours to $186, after previously surpassing $200 for the first time since June 6.