The August 4, 2026 daily record came days after Anza raised Solana's per-block compute limit to 100 million CUs, as weekly non-vote transactions topped 1 billion and application revenue rebounded.
Solana processed 169.9 million non-vote transactions on August 4, 2026, setting a single-day network record six days after Anza activated SIMD-0286 at Epoch 1009 on July 29. The change, authored by Lucas Bruder of Jito, raised the Max Block Units parameter from 60 million to 100 million compute units while leaving the 12 million per-account writable state cap and 100 MB maximum block data size unchanged; within 48 hours, P90 priority fees fell 30% and block cap congestion dropped from 12.5% to 0.5% as market makers, trading bots and payments flows absorbed the added capacity. August 4 also coincided with the launch of Western Union's Stablecard on Solana across 37 markets. Weekly non-vote transactions also topped 1 billion, surpassing earlier peaks tied to the January 2025 $TRUMP memecoin launch and early July's $ANSEM debut, while memecoins accounted for 28% of Solana's weekly DEX volume. Revenue signals were mixed: Q2 2026 network fees totaled $51 million, the weakest quarterly result since Q3 2023, but weekly application revenue rose 32% from early April lows to $23.9 million and daily application revenue reached $4.44 million on August 4, with Pump.fun still leading and FOMO generating more than $315,000 over the last 24 hours.