The Solana network increased its block capacity by 20% on Tuesday, increasing the limit to 60 million calculation units (Cu) and plans to extend this before the end of the year.
Mert Mumtaz, co-founder and CEO of Helius, which provides infrastructure and tools for Solana developers, said on Wednesday in a post X that upgrade means that the Solana network can now adapt to more block transactions.
“This capacity was previously 48 million CUs, which means that the total sum of all transactions for a given block must be around this number,” he said.
The increase should result in “reduced costs, given the same request, more expressiveness for developers and a better UX for users”, according to Mumtaz.
Each Solana transaction consumes calculation units, varying considerably depending on complexity.
In January, users reported difficulties in processing transactions on the Solana network due to a flood of same, especially when US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump launched their same.
Block capacity could go even more
It is also planned to increase block capacity to 100 CUS, according to another proposal on Github, created by Lucas Bruder, CEO of Jito Labs, who builds infrastructure for Solana.
“The main objective of the original block limits was to ensure that the vast majority of network participants can follow the network, restricting the amount of work that a leader is authorized to pack in a block,” said Bruder in the proposal.
“However, the current traffic of the Mainnet is not largely limited by the execution times of important blocks. This proposal aims for a substantial increase in the block limits to 100 m, in order to provide additional capacity to the network,” he added.
Mumtaz said the objective was to at least double the limit of 60 CU in the future.
Solana crosses $ 200 while companies store tokens
Solana jumped 12% on Monday to more than $ 202, according to Nansen Data. Over the past seven days, the token has increased by 11% and is currently negotiating for just over $ 191.
Meanwhile, several companies began to stack Solana. The company listed at Nasdaq Defu Development Corp said on Monday that it was now a token to cross a million cash.
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The Bitcoin extraction company, Bit Mining, announced on July 10 that it made a strategic transfer in the Solana ecosystem, with plans to collect up to $ 300 million to build a Treasury of Token Solana.
Ether gas limit also increases
Solana is not the only network to modernize its block capacity. Ether’s gas limit increased to just under 45 million units on Tuesday, according to the Ycharts data platform.
The last increase in the gas limit is the first significant ascent since February, when it increased from 30 million to 36 million.
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