🚀 Solana (SOL), the so-called "Ethereum killer", is facing some serious congestion issues. Despite its promise of 50,000 transactions per second, it's only hitting around 1,000 TPS in reality. The network has suffered nine outages since 2021, totaling over 150 hours of downtime. The surge in meme coins and bot activity is largely to blame. Yet, Solana's low fees continue to attract users and bots alike. To be taken seriously, Solana needs to prove it can handle the traffic without severe network outages. Until then, it's more like a traffic jam than a rocket ship. 🚦