Transactions per second
Peak in this window: 5,792 TPS. The node counts validator votes as transactions. They are real on-chain transactions, but nobody sends them by hand and nobody pays for them — so TPS excluding votes is the honest number. The five-digit figures circulating on social media are usually the raw ones, or come from a test on a closed network.
Epoch progress
At the end of an epoch stake is recomputed, staking rewards are paid and the active validator set changes. Delegating or unstaking therefore never takes effect immediately, only with the next epoch.
Stake and decentralisation
The Nakamoto coefficient is the hardest number on decentralisation: that many of the largest validators together hold a third of the stake, and if they colluded the network would stop finalising blocks. Higher is better. The staking yield comes from inflation, which the protocol cuts by 15 % every year until it reaches 1.5 %.
data as of 10/15/2026, 12:20:08 PM · Related: Solana price · SOL/BTC ratio · DeFi TVL
How to read Solana's numbers
Solana runs on one slot every 400 milliseconds and on validators voting for every block on-chain. That makes confirmation nearly instant, but it also means most of the traffic consists of validator votes. When someone says “Solana does 3,000 TPS”, that is almost always the figure including votes.
Fees work differently from Ethereum: the base rate is a fixed 5,000 lamports per signature — a fraction of a cent — and it does not rise with congestion. When a block is in demand, users add a priority fee for specific accounts; that is what spikes during big mints, even while the base rate stays put.
Staking on Solana is delegated: a SOL holder assigns their stake to a validator, who votes on their behalf. The yield comes from inflation, which the protocol reduces every year, and is shared across all staked SOL — so the more is staked, the less each unit earns. Both staking and unstaking activate only with the next epoch.
The figures come straight from Solana's public mainnet RPC. This is not investment advice.