Solana said it processed 8.92 billion successful non-vote transactions in the third quarter of 2026, about 140 million more than Solana Compass counted, highlighting a gap between two measures of network activity.
In an Oct. 19 post, Solana said its total was 104% higher than in the fourth quarter of 2025. That comparison uses a late-2025 baseline, rather than the second quarter of 2026 immediately before the period under review. The 104% figure is therefore not a quarter-to-quarter growth rate.
Solana Compass measured 8.78 billion completed non-vote transactions from July through September, up 23.3% from the second quarter. The difference between its total and Solana's is roughly 140 million transactions. The published figures do not explain the gap.
The September breakdown shows why the choice of measure matters. Compass's broader count, which includes transactions that reverted, fell 8.2% from August to 4.70 billion. Its completed count rose 8.3% to 3.18 billion, the third consecutive monthly high in Compass's dataset. Compass said fewer reverts were the main reason the broader total declined.
A reverted transaction is executed, but its result rolls back. The successful quarterly totals exclude validator votes used to maintain the network. They can still include activity generated by applications and bots, so neither total shows how many individual people used Solana.
The distinction between vote-inclusive and non-vote figures will matter when Solana's Alpenglow upgrade activates. Solana says the upgrade will move validator votes outside block transaction records. Dashboards that count those votes may show lower totals even if user-submitted transactions hold steady, as EconoTimes previously reported on the planned change.
The third-quarter figures already exclude validator votes. Alpenglow's scheduled activation on Oct. 21 is the next point at which readers of Solana transaction dashboards will need to check what each total includes.
