Solana processed 1.2 billion non-vote transactions in the seven days ending August 10, 2026, the first time it has cleared one billion in a single week, marking its busiest stretch on record for user-driven activity. Non-vote transactions exclude the consensus messages validators send to keep the chain synchronized, leaving activity such as token swaps, DeFi (crypto finance applications) interactions and NFT trades. The week included daily highs of 169.9 million on August 4 and 171.9 million on August 10, or about 1,990 transactions per second sustained through the day. The jump followed a 66% increase in Solana’s per-block compute limit, which lets each block carry more computational work without extending block times. The same day the network set its latest daily record, U.S. spot Solana ETFs pulled in $8.8 million in net inflows, all of it going to Bitwise’s BSOL fund. For developers, the higher compute ceiling could reduce the need to split complex actions across multiple transactions, easing a common source of friction in DeFi protocols.