Condog

🚨 Solana did NOT “hit 100,000 TPS.” It gamed the numbers in typical Solana fashion! On August 17th a Solana dev ran a stress test on mainnet. They blasted the chain with blocks filled almost entirely with “no-op” transactions. No-ops are dummy instructions that do NOTHING. No state changes. No math. No balance updates. One block hit ~107,000 TPS. Then the entire Solana community including @solana @toly @mert pushed this BS claim. Here’s the reality. That block had 43,066 transactions in 412ms. Of those, ~41,938 were no-ops. That’s 99.5% filler. Yes, you read that right. 99.5% of the transactions were meaningless filler to pad numbers! Less than 200 were real transfers. TPS inflated by junk. On Solana, transaction weight is measured in Compute Units (CU). A no-op burns ~1,000 CU. A token send costs 3,000–5,000 CU. A DEX swap runs 50,000–300,000 CU. That means the 100K TPS figure came from txs 1/4th to 1/200th the weight of real activity. Try hitting that with Raydium or Jupiter swaps. It collapses. History already proves it. True TPS (excluding votes) is ~1,000–1,200 on average (95% of that is bots too) When organic spikes hit, such as memecoin launches or NFT drops, the network stalls, throttles, or flatlines. THAT is the real ceiling. Bragging about 100K TPS with no-ops is like claiming your car hits 300mph falling out of a plane. It misleads developers. It misleads investors. It misleads users. Solana is fast and cheap for simple ops. But hype like this erodes trust. If Web3 is going to scale, we need honest metrics. Mixed workloads, transparent breakdowns, not smoke and mirrors which Solana is famous for.