Solana recorded more than 800 million successful non-vote transactions in a single week, setting a new all-time high for the second consecutive week. The measure excludes validator voting activity and more closely captures trades, token transfers, DeFi interactions and NFT mints. The surge followed SIMD-0286, implemented on July 29, which increased the maximum compute limit per block by 66%. Daily non-vote transactions reached 169.9 million on August 4 and 171.9 million on August 10, while August's monthly total rose to 5.2 billion from 4.2 billion in July, exceeding the combined totals of other major Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks. Block times remained around 400 milliseconds, and validator fee revenue increased more than 80% over three months to about 9,200 SOL per day by late August. DeFi activity and transfers of tokenized assets were identified as primary drivers during a steady rise in Solana's summer 2026 activity.