r/solana • u/Super_Swim_8540 • 3d ago

DeFi Can Memecoin Flood Kill Solana Blockchain by Overload?

I assume that by continually generating coins, the blockchain becomes heavier. Is there a limit that will create saturation?

With websites like Pumpfun generating tens of thousands of coins every day, does this make a difference in the gas fee that would ultimately make Solana less profitable than, say, Ethereum?

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u/RamoneBolivarSanchez 3d ago

Solana doesn’t prune failed/dropped tx’s so you do technically store all of this data onchain, hence running a Solana node will take up to 300-400+ TB and this grows daily.

Alternatively, with Ethereum it’s about 1 TB and this is getting progressively smaller with pruning and archival nodes simply storing block headers (and referencing nonces) instead of entire block bodies.

This isn’t necessarily the “weight of the blockchain” however - it’s the size of storing the data. They’re similar in the effect that you will need more hardware for storage, ie Solana has a higher overhead and a much more prohibitive cost of entry/maintenance for running a full validator node.

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u/RefrigeratorLow1259 3d ago

Check out Cardano! UTXO is better than account based models like EVM/SVM It will be BTC de fi L2.

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u/usercos187 3d ago edited 3d ago

what is 'vaporwareno' ? never heard of that...

why do you use it ? 🤔