Solana’s outages on the Coinbase exchange during periods of high congestion might be ending soon as the trading platform scales its infrastructure.
Coinbase, the leading crypto exchange based in the U.S., has launched the much-anticipated upgrade to its Solana infrastructure. The upgrade follows a series of complaints about transaction time from users using the platform.
What Prompted the Solana Upgrade?
According to the report, the Coinbase team has been working on the infrastructure since January 2025, when outages occurred in the ecosystem. The hitch ensued when trading activity for Solana surged to almost 10 times the actual transaction throughput on the exchange.
Coinbase has tackled the challenge by ensuring its systems process transactions asynchronously. This means transactions can be processed in parallel instead of the previous sequential handling.
Notably, processing transaction blocks sequentially posed challenges for the exchange due to delays during peak periods.
In January 2025, when the memecoin frenzy hit Solana due to the launch of TRUMP and MELANIA, it triggered congestion on some exchanges.
As per Coinbase’s update on X, the exchange has moved from cloud-based virtual servers to bare metal or dedicated physical servers. This implies that apps and users interacting with the blockchain will experience four times the speed.
We’ve been hard at work scaling our @Solana infrastructure to be faster, more resilient, and more scalable.
We have upgraded our systems to:
→ Process transactions asynchronously, leading to a 5x improvement in block processing throughput.
→ Leverage bare metal machines for 4x… pic.twitter.com/WFINzCutNK— Coinbase Platform (@CoinbasePltfrm) April 17, 2025
Additionally, Coinbase has included ‘failover systems, ’ which act as automatic backups, ensuring that assets are available when needed. This will guarantee a more reliable and stable system even during high-traffic times.
How Coinbase’s Upgrade Benefits Solana Users
Overall, Coinbase has doubled its performance, reliability, and future scalability for Solana, a favored blockchain for token launches. This signals to Solana users on the platform that the exchange is not just focused on Bitcoin and Ethereum.
The move means that users will get faster and more reliable Solana transactions on Coinbase. Previous complaints of slow speed will no longer be on the exchange.
For instance, a user called out Coinbase online in January, alleging that two transactions initiated from a Solana wallet took approximately 10 hours to complete.
The Coinbase upgrade has significantly reduced the Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) endpoint latency for “getBlock requests.” Following the upgrade, most requests will now complete in under 400ms, as opposed to the previous 1,200ms.
The operational changes would ensure seamless liquidity for Solana assets and prevent execution delays in the ecosystem.
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