Solana's block capacity increase will improve throughput for unrelated transactions but won't solve congestion for popular accounts that traders use
Too little corroboration in the last 3 days to call a trend (3 articles). Watching for it to gain traction.
Still mostly niche and specialist coverage — not yet picked up broadly by mainstream press.
"A mid-priority OKX swap would cost 301% more and a pump.fun swap with zero priority would cost 3150% more. A resource fee would push arbitrage searchers toward more informed and reactive strategies."
"That creates more parallel capacity. Transactions touching unrelated accounts can use the additional 40 million CUs, allowing a busy account to crowd out less of the rest of the block. The same math does not give a congested market more capacity. If many trades need to write to the same account, they still compete within the 12 million-CU allowance."
"The upgrade therefore establishes a higher theoretical ceiling for aggregate work. It does not, by itself, demonstrate 66% more observed throughput or eliminate the local bottleneck that traders encounter when demand converges on the same account."