Firedancer Team Floats Plan to Drop Solana Block Limit

A new technical proposal from the Firedancer developers suggests removing Solana’s fixed “compute units per block” limit — an aggressive change aimed at letting the network scale with validator performance rather than an artificial cap. Key Takeaways The idea, published as a Solana Improvement Document (SIMD), would allow block capacity to rise naturally as validators run faster hardware and clients pack transactions more efficiently. Backers say the current ceiling slows Solana during peak demand by forcing leaders to stop adding transactions once a block hits its compute quota. Scrapping that quota could create a performance flywheel: leaders that can safely The post Firedancer Team Floats Plan to Drop Solana Block Limit first appeared on The Shib Daily source: https://news.shib.io/2025/09/29/firedancer-team-floats-plan-to-drop-solana-block-limit/