Solana Developers Propose Block Limit Increase to Boost Performance

Solana developers speculate that the network’s speed, throughput, and overall performance could improve following a recent proposal to the Solana Foundation to raise the network’s block limit to 50 million compute units (CU) from 48 million.
A blockchain developer, Andrew Fitzgerald, made the request on Github, stirring excitement among Solana builders on X.
“Solana is increasing block limits. In other words: higher performance, more transactions, faster,” said CEO of Helius, Mert, on X.
Increasing a network’s block limit makes it more scalable; more space for transactions in a block equates to faster confirmation times and better performance.
But it could also open a can of worms; Solana's block size does not affect its execution time, so making too big of a change could strain network participants’ hardware.
The most likely outcome is that Solana increases the block space slightly to see if it significantly impacts the network and goes from there. Its co-founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, corroborated this on X.
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