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mert | helius.dev·2025-07-23 13:01
Solana blocks are now 20% bigger — what does this mean?on Solana, every transaction sent consumes resourceswe call this resource "compute units" or CUs — like fuel for a carevery transaction consumes a different amount of CUs depending on its complexity, a simple transfer consumes less CUs than a complex multi-DEX swapwhen a solana block is produced, it has a capacity of how many CUs it can includethis capacity used to be 48 million CUsmeaning the sum total of all transactions for a given block must be arou ...