Over the weekend, Solana developers stress-tested the network by briefly executing over 100,000 transactions per second (TPS). While that figure is currently more than the normal TPS of all blockchains combined, it validates the Solana community’s belief in the network’s capacity to scale significantly. In an orchestrated experiment, Solana simulated an extremely high-throughput scenario, pushing the network to over 100,000 TPS for a short period on Sunday, Aug. 17. This stress test involved flooding the blockchain with a large volume of “no op” transactions, i.e., transactions that don’t actually do anything ... (full story)