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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Solana: High-Performance Blockchain
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 Solana™ is a new architecture for a high performance blockchain. It aims to support
-over 710 thousand transactions per second on a gigabit network.
+over 700 thousand transactions per second on a gigabit network.
 
 Running the demo
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