- Solana raised its block capacity to 60 million compute units, improving transaction throughput and reducing congestion during peak demand.
- Jito Labs proposed increasing compute capacity to 100 million units by year-end, targeting higher efficiency for decentralized trading activity.
Solana (SOL) is trading at $189.14, reflecting a +0.04% daily change. The market capitalization is $101.79 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume stands at $9.67 billion, suggesting consistent liquidity and ongoing institutional and retail participation.
Solana upgraded its block capacity to sixty million compute units on Tuesday, marking a twenty percent rise from the previous limit of forty‑eight million compute units. This arrives as the network prepares for further expansion and aims to ease congestion during spikes in trading activity or token launches. The former cap triggered transaction bottlenecks when users sent orders rapidly, especially during meme coin surges that flooded the ledger with small trades.
🚨BREAKING: @Solana is set to further raise block capacity from 60M to 100M CUs under SIMD-0286, a 66% increase. This follows yesterday's 20% jump to 60M at epoch 822. According to core engineer @anza_xyz, the upgrade could be implemented today pic.twitter.com/6tGJCHJfit
— SolanaFloor (@SolanaFloor) July 23, 2025
For example, the TRUMP\$TRUMP and MELANIA\$MELANIA memecoin launches in January strained the system, causing spikes in fees and delays in confirmation times. Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder has proposed raising capacity further to one hundred million compute units before year‑end to accommodate growing demand and new applications.
Meanwhile, each Solana transaction consumes compute units based on its complexity, with the block limit determining how many transactions can fit in a single record.
Therefore, higher capacity should reduce fees per transaction and improve the user experience by cutting wait times, which can climb sharply during peaks. In parallel, Ethereum increased its gas limit to forty‑five million units, marking its first gas limit rise since February and signaling pressure on alternate chains.
SOL trades at around one hundred ninety‑one dollars after a twelve percent surge that pushed prices above two hundred dollars amid institutional blockchain adoption.
Fundamental Update
Solana’s infrastructure continues to expand. The Proof of History (PoH) timekeeping protocol allows for extremely fast transaction finality, and recent validator optimizations have lowered the median block propagation delay to below 600ms, increasing throughput stability.
New state compression and account compression features have reduced on-chain storage requirements. These tools are critical for developers operating in GameFi and NFT projects, enabling cheaper deployments and smoother scaling.
The Solana Mobile Stack (SMS) continues gaining traction, with usage of the Saga phone expanding Solana-native mobile dApps. The combination of hardware-native Web3 tools and embedded seed management is expected to gradually support more mobile wallet integrations across DeFi and NFT protocols.
Moreover, the recent upgrade may attract developers seeking a high‑speed network, offering faster settlement and predictable costs compared with slower platforms. As a result, dApp creators can launch new services with less concern for sudden spikes in user load that previously caused service interruptions.
Thus, Solana’s capacity increase serves as a practical step toward handling higher volumes, even as the team evaluates further enhancements to support future growth.
