Solana just proved its resilience under extreme market pressure. According to recent tweet, the blockchain reached a record 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) during last night’s unprecedented crypto liquidation wave, without suffering any network degradation.
The stress event, one of the largest since Solana’s inception, was triggered by widespread market liquidations that wiped out nearly $20 billion in leveraged positions across digital assets. Despite the chaos, Solana’s Agave validator client managed to sustain 6x peak traffic and process over 60 million compute unit (CU) blocks seamlessly.
Analysts view the event as a milestone proving Solana’s network maturity. Unlike prior episodes in 2021 and 2022, when congestion caused transaction delays and reboots, this latest test demonstrated consistent uptime and scalability even at record traffic levels.
The blockchain’s throughput spike coincided with heightened trading activity in liquid staking and memecoin sectors, which typically strain network performance. Developers at Anza Labs praised the Agave client for handling the load “without any drop in finality or block production speed.”
The achievement reinforces Solana’s positioning as a high-performance Layer-1 network built for institutional-grade and retail-scale adoption. As the broader market recovers from its liquidation shock, Solana’s stability under fire could strengthen investor confidence, especially as DeFi and on-chain trading volumes migrate back to faster, more resilient chains.
In a market shaken by volatility, Solana’s ability to withstand one of crypto’s heaviest stress tests may signal not just technological endurance, but readiness for the next wave of mass adoption.