Solana isn’t the only network upgrading its block capacity; Ethereum’s gas limit increased to just under 45 million units as of Tuesday.
The Solana network increased its block capacity by 20% on Tuesday, raising the limit to 60 million compute units (CU) and plans to expand this further before the end of the year.
Mert Mumtaz, co-founder and CEO of Helius, which provides infrastructure and tooling for Solana developers, said in an X post on Wednesday that the upgrade means the Solana network can now fit more transactions per block.
“This capacity used to be 48 million CUs, meaning the sum total of all transactions for a given block must be around this number,” he said.
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