Solana's daily transaction volume surpasses Visa for third consecutive month
The high-throughput blockchain processed over 180 million transactions in a single day, cementing its position as the world's busiest settlement network.
Crypto — March 3, 2026
Solana processed more than 180 million transactions on Sunday—surpassing Visa's global network for the third consecutive month—in a milestone that blockchain advocates say demonstrates the maturing infrastructure of decentralized finance.
The figures, compiled by blockchain analytics firm Messari, show Solana handling an average of 4,200 transactions per second at peak load, compared to Visa's approximately 1,700 transactions per second average.
The surge in Solana activity is being driven by several converging trends: the explosive growth of the platform's decentralized exchange ecosystem, the proliferation of micro-payment applications in gaming and social media, and the launch of several major tokenized real-world asset programs.
Jupiter Exchange, the leading aggregated DEX on Solana, reported monthly trading volume of $142 billion in February—a record that rivals the volume of mid-sized traditional commodity exchanges.
Visa's head of crypto strategy, Cuy Sheffield, acknowledged the comparison but cautioned that raw transaction counts can be misleading. 'Not all transactions are equal in terms of value, finality, or reversibility,' Sheffield said at a payments industry conference in New York.
Solana's co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko pushed back: 'Our network processes real economic activity—swaps, payments, lending, NFT trades—in a way that is auditable, permissionless, and irreversible. That is qualitatively superior to legacy networks.'
SOL's price has responded to the network's growing utility, with the token trading at $168 Monday—up 340% from its 2025 low of $38—and analysts at Bernstein setting a year-end target of $300.
