Solana upgrades too fast for its own good

How blockchain protocols make collective decisions about upgrades, funding, and rules, whether through on-chain voting, off-chain social consensus, or foundation stewardship.

Base blockchains that settle transactions on their own network, such as Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche, competing on security, throughput, decentralization, and developer ecosystems.

High-throughput Layer-1 blockchain using proof-of-history consensus, optimized for speed and low transaction fees.

Solana's September 19, 2026 changelog reports Transaction V1 deployed on mainnet. The format expands the maximum individual transaction size from 1,232 to 4,096 bytes, supporting larger operations without itself establishing a corresponding increase in transactions per second.