Solana vs. Ethereum Erupts Over Nasdaq Throughput Claim

Description

A weekend post on X from the official Solana account ignited a fresh round of cross-chain sniping after it juxtaposed the Ethereum network’s transaction speed with Nasdaq’s trade throughput. “When they say the future of markets runs at 22 TPS but NASDAQ handles 2k trades per second,” Solana wrote on August 9, implicitly positioning the layer-1 as better aligned with modern market plumbing. Ethereum users bristled, arguing the comparison was a category error between an open, permissionless blockc...