Solana Network Capacity Upgrade: Increased Compute Limit Expected to Enhance Performance

Solana Block Capacity Rises 66% with SIMD-0286 Upgrade

In a groundbreaking move, the Solana developer community has proposed and submitted a new upgrade to significantly enhance its block capacity. The recent SIMD-0286 upgrade will increase the network’s per-block compute limit from the current 60 million units to an impressive 100 million units, marking a substantial 66% jump.

As reported by sources close to the matter, the increased capacity aims to tackle the pressing issue of “compute budget exceeded” errors, which have been plaguing high-intensity applications like order-book decentralized exchanges and MEV auctioneers. Additionally, this upgrade is expected to benefit other popular use cases such as restaking protocols, NFT mints, and DeFi projects.

Lucas Bruder, CEO of Jito Labs and the author of SIMD-0286, emphasized that “current mainnet traffic is largely not constrained by large block execution times.” However, he did note that this proposal aims to provide a substantial increase in block limits to 100 million CUs, ultimately granting more capacity to the network.

The proposed upgrade, published on GitHub back in May 2025, still remains under discussion. Nevertheless, if approved, it will automatically activate at a future epoch without requiring any further intervention from users or validators.

Source: coinrevolution.com