Solana Founder Drops Bombshell: Block Capacity Hacks Revealed!

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In the grand theater of blockchain antics, where algorithms dance like deranged imps, Solana’s cofounder Anatoly Yakovenko fired off a tweet that’s got the crypto crowd chuckling into their coffee mugs. He casually tossed out that doubling block capacity is a breeze compared to untangling the knotty mess of BLS vote aggregation economics – as if anyone’s surprised when wizards start simplifying sorcery. 😜

Doubling block capacity is easier than bls vote aggregation economics

— toly 🇺🇸 (@aeyakovenko) July 24, 2025

Now, BLS signatures – those are the enchanted sigils borrowed from Ethereum‘s beacon chain protocol, relying on the BLS12-381 elliptic curve. It’s all about smooshing signatures together like a particularly sarcastic game of Jenga, making the consensus mechanism work without everyone losing their minds. Yakovenko, with his trademark dry wit, chimed in just as the SIMD-0256 proposal – which sounds like it escaped from a sci-fi novel – got the nod and cranked Solana’s block limit up from 48 million to 60 million Compute Units. Because nothing says “progress” quite like fiddling with invisible numbers to handle more invisible transactions. 💻😂

The whole point of these block limits is to keep the network from collapsing under its own ambition, ensuring that most users can keep pace without their hardware melting down like a witch’s cauldron. SIMD-0256 is just a cheeky little upgrade, but Solana’s eyeing a leap to 100 million CUs, which would double the fun (or the chaos, depending on your perspective). Yakovenko’s hint at this expansion is as subtle as a dragon in a china shop. 🔥

Solana Shatters TPS Records with Sheer Audacity

In yet another display of bravado, the Solana sage tweeted that his creation has outpaced Ethereum and all its Layer 2 sidekicks combined in capacity – all while hitting a blistering 1,700 transactions per second. With SIMD-0256 juicing things up, Solana’s chugging along during peak hours like a steam engine fueled by pure hype. But let’s not forget, at the moment, SOL‘s taken a tumble, down 7.53% to $186 in the last day. Maybe the market’s just rolling its eyes at all this boasting. Or perhaps it’s the weight of those extra compute units pulling it down – who can say? 📉🤷‍♂️

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2025-07-24 17:04