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Compute Budget

Also known asCU Budget
The maximum compute units a transaction can consume. Default is 200,000 CU per instruction (max 1.4M CU per transaction). Programs can request specific limits via the ComputeBudgetProgram's SetComputeUnitLimit instruction. Under-requesting CU risks transaction failure; over-requesting wastes priority fee budget.

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