Solana Activates Transaction V1 on Mainnet, Raising the Maximum Transaction Size to 4,096 Bytes
Solana Transaction V1 is live on mainnet with a 4,096-byte limit. See how it differs from legacy and v0 formats, wallets and RPC.
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