The $SOL Metric I’d Rather See Than Another TPS Record Whenever Solana performance comes up, $SOL discussions tend to return to transaction throughput. I'm more interested in how many of those transactions represent economically meaningful activity and how consistently users return after whatever application originally brought them there. A network can generate enormous transaction counts because transactions are cheap, bots are active, or individual applications require frequent on-chain interactions. None of those are necessarily bad, but they make raw transaction totals difficult to compare with networks that work differently. For me, retention is the harder test. If a new application brings a wave of wallets onto Solana, what percentage are still active a month or two later, and what else do they use once they're there? That's the difference between a successful campaign and an ecosystem actually gaining users. #Macro Insights# #Altcoin Season#