‘46 Times Faster Than Ethereum’ – Solana Races to the Top of CoinGecko’s List of Swiftest Blockchains
Smart contract platform Solana (SOL) is moving to the top of CoinGecko’s list of fastest block chain s. In a new publication, CoinGecko says Solana is a staggering 46 times faster than its rival Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest digital asset by market cap, making it the fastest large block chain on the market. However, CoinGecko says that Solana has only reached 1.6% of its theoretical maximum throughput. “Solana has proven to be the fastest among large block chain s, with its actual daily average transactions per second (TPS) reaching a record high of 1,504 on April 6th this year amid the memecoin mania. This makes Solana 46 times faster than Ethereum, and more than five times faster than Polygon, which has the highest TPS among Ethereum scaling solutions. Despite ranking as the fastest block chain , Solana has still only achieved 1.6% of its theoretical maximum speed of 65,000 TPS.” CoinGecko’s statistics show that Solana’s h...