Solana reports record activity in August

The Solana Foundation's August ecosystem report recorded a peak of 216 million non-vote transactions in one day and 1.32 billion over the week of 17–23 August. Non-vote transactions exclude the traffic validators generate when voting on the chain.

The report also put real-world asset value above $4 billion across more than 350,000 holding addresses. Tokenised stocks and funds formed part of that activity, with xStocks passing $500 million in assets under management and Raydium reaching $4 billion in cumulative tokenised-stock trading volume.

Network timing changed during the month too: target slot times fell from 400 to 350 milliseconds, then to 300 milliseconds on 28 August. The September publication summarises those earlier developments.

The figures measure different things: transaction counts, asset balances and cumulative turnover. Taken together, they give a fuller picture of activity than any one headline record.