Solana (SOL), a leading blockchain in the cryptocurrency sector, recently released its 2025 annual review, highlighting significant growth across key areas such as daily active wallets and decentralized exchange (DEX) volume.
Seven Solana Apps Surpass $100 Million in Revenue
According to the report shared on social media platform X, applications on Solana generated $2.39 billion in revenue—a 46% year-over-year increase and a new all-time high. Seven standout applications, including Pump.fun, each exceeded $100 million in revenue for the year. Additionally, a wide range of smaller applications, those earning under $100 million, collectively generated over $500 million.
The network’s performance metrics were equally strong. Solana achieved $1.4 billion in revenue, marking a 48-fold increase over two years. Non-vote transactions reached a new high of 33 billion, growing 28% year-over-year. The network averaged 1,054 non-vote transactions per second, while unique active wallets averaged 3.2 million daily—a 50% annual increase. In total, Solana saw 725 million new wallets created.
Bitcoin Trading Volume Reaches $33 Billion
In asset management, Solana’s stablecoin supply ended the year at $14.8 billion, more than doubling from the previous year. The blockchain facilitated $11.7 trillion in stablecoin transfers—a sevenfold increase over two years.
2025 also saw the debut of equities on Solana, reaching a supply of $1 billion and a trading volume of $651 million. Bitcoin trading volume grew fivefold year-over-year to $33 billion, setting a new record, while the total Bitcoin supply doubled to $770 million.
Staked SOL also increased, with 421 million tokens staked—an 8% rise and another all-time high. The introduction of Solana ETFs attracted net inflows of $1.02 billion.
SOL-Stablecoin Volume Doubles to $782 Billion
In decentralized finance, total DEX volume reached $1.5 trillion, growing 57% year-over-year and setting another annual record. Trading volume for SOL-stablecoin pairs more than doubled to $782 billion. Twelve DEX platforms processed over $10 billion in volume each, led by Raydium at $347 billion.
Artificial intelligence (AI) agent volume hit a new high of $31 billion, while tokenized asset volume rose to $598 million and project token volume increased to $86 billion.
In the memecoin and launchpad sectors, memecoin volume totaled $482 billion, though this represented a slight 10% annual decline. Launchpads had a strong year, with six platforms generating over $1 billion in volume and total launchpad revenue doubling to $762 million.
Trading platforms within Solana’s ecosystem earned $940 million—a 44% annual increase—while processing $108 billion in volume, up 66% from the prior year.
At the time of writing, SOL is trading at $138.50, up 10% over the past week. It remains 50% below its all-time high of $293, reached during last year’s rally.
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions Solana Hits New Highs
Beginner Questions
Q What is Solana
A Solana is a highspeed lowcost blockchain network designed for decentralized applications and cryptocurrencies Think of it as a competitor to Ethereum but focused on being faster and cheaper for users
Q What does hitting new highs mean in this context
A It means that in 2025 key metrics for the Solana networklike its price number of daily active users total transactions processed and the value locked in its appsreached their highest levels ever recorded
Q Why is Solana growing so much
A According to the 2025 review growth is driven by major improvements in network stability a surge in popular consumer applications and its core advantage of extremely fast and cheap transactions
Q Is it too late to invest in Solana
A This is not financial advice Cryptocurrency investments are highly volatile and risky The new highs report is a review of past performance which is never a guarantee of future results Always do your own research and consider your risk tolerance
Intermediate Technical Questions
Q What specific metrics broke records in the 2025 review
A The review highlights recordbreaking numbers in
Daily Active Addresses The number of unique users interacting with the network daily
Total Value Locked The amount of cryptocurrency deposited in Solanas DeFi applications
NonVote Transactions The count of real user transactions showing actual usage
Throughput The network consistently handled thousands of transactions per second
Q Werent there major outages before How is that fixed
A Yes Solana faced significant downtime in 20212022 The 2025 review credits the networks stability to major technical upgrades including
QUIC implementation Better controls for data traffic
Stakeweighted Quality of Service Prioritizes transactions from users who stake SOL reducing spam