Solana Compass counted 8.78 billion completed non-vote transactions in the third quarter, up 23.3% from the previous quarter, as differing tallies complicate comparisons of activity on the network.
The count covered July through September, compared with 7.13 billion in the second quarter. In an Oct. 6 ecosystem roundup, the Solana Foundation used Compass’s 8.78 billion quarterly count.
Compass put September’s completed non-vote total at 3.18 billion, an 8.3% increase from August. It counted 1.52 billion non-vote transactions that reverted during the month, a decline from August. Its broader September total, which includes reverts, fell 8.2% to 4.70 billion.
A transaction that fails during execution does not retain its attempted changes. Compass’s completed count also excludes validator votes but can include activity generated by apps and bots. The figure therefore cannot establish how many individual people used Solana.
Solana gave a different quarterly figure in an Oct. 19 post: 8.92 billion successful non-vote transactions. That leaves a roughly 140 million gap between the published tallies, which the figures do not explain.
Solana said its third-quarter count was 104% higher than in the fourth quarter of 2025. That comparison uses an earlier baseline than Compass’s 23.3% increase from the second quarter of 2026; the two growth rates describe different periods.
Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade is scheduled for Oct. 21. The network says it will move validator votes out of block transaction records, potentially lowering counts that include votes even if user-submitted activity holds steady. Compass’s completed non-vote measure already excludes them.
