Core Insights - 2025 marked a significant breakout year for Solana, evolving from a high-throughput blockchain to a comprehensive financial ecosystem characterized by real revenues, deep liquidity, and sustained trading activity [1] Application Revenues - Applications on Solana generated a total of $2.39 billion in revenue in 2025, representing a 46% year-on-year increase and setting a new all-time high [2] - Seven applications surpassed the $100 million revenue mark, including Pump.fun, Axiom Exchange, Meteora, Raydium, Jupiter, Photon, and BullX [2] - Projects earning under $100 million collectively generated over $500 million, indicating a diverse revenue generation across the ecosystem [3] Network Performance - Solana's network revenue reached $1.4 billion, a forty-eight-fold increase over two years [4] - The network processed 33 billion non-vote transactions, or 116 billion including votes, averaging over 1,050 non-vote transactions per second [4] - Daily active wallets averaged 3.2 million, a 50% increase year-on-year, with over 725 million new wallets executing transactions [5] - Average transaction fees fell to $0.017, with median fees near one-tenth of a cent [5] Asset and Institutional Activity - Stablecoin supply on Solana ended the year at $14.8 billion, more than doubling year-on-year, with $11.7 trillion of stablecoins transacted across the network [6] - Tokenized equities launched with a supply of $1 billion and trading volume of $651 million [6] - Bitcoin-related trading volume surged fivefold to $33 billion, with on-chain BTC supply doubling to $770 million [6] - Staked SOL reached a new high of 421 million tokens, and Solana-linked exchange-traded products saw $1.02 billion in net inflows, indicating increased institutional engagement [7] Trading Volume and Market Dynamics - Decentralized exchange (DEX) volume reached $1.5 trillion in 2025, a 57% year-on-year increase [8] - SOL-stablecoin pairs accounted for $782 billion in trading volume, with twelve DEXs processing over $10 billion each [8] - Automated market makers captured more than half of aggregator volume, while memecoin trading generated $482 billion in volume [9] - Launchpads doubled their revenues to $762 million, facilitating the creation of 11.6 million tokens [9]