What is Solana? Your 2026 Beginner’s Guide to SOL

Solana processes 65,000 transactions per second. For context, Visa handles about 24,000. Ethereum? Roughly 15–30 on its base layer. That speed — combined with fees that barely register (we’re talking fractions of a cent) — is why Solana went from “interesting experiment” to top-3 cryptocurrency in just a few years. But speed isn’t the whole story. If you’ve been following…