The Solana blockchain briefly recorded over 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) during a stress test, peaking at 107,540 TPS driven primarily by lightweight 'noop' program calls. These calls, while testing network capacity, do not change the state but evaluate the system’s limits. Despite this spike, actual user-facing throughput remains lower, estimated around 1,000 TPS for payments and applications. The test, processed by validator 'Cavey Cool', highlighted that Solana could potentially sustain 80,000–100,000 TPS in real-world scenarios, enhancing the attractiveness of the SOL token. Critics, however, argue that such performance is not indicative of actual network usage since the high TPS was based on artificial loads. Nevertheless, professionals in the space note that the costs associated with such transactions, including signature verification and data loading, make them significant in testing the network's potential capacities.

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