Solana is experiencing solid growth amidst the ongoing bull market that has spread throughout the cryptocurrency industry.
In fact, Solana’s SOL token has emerged as one of the best-performing tokens, rising about 30% to around $190 over the past month.
Solana’s DeFi Soars to All-Time Highs
Solana’s decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has flourished since the beginning of the year as the cryptocurrency market further expanded. Data from DeFiLlama illustrates this trend, showing a massive surge in activity on Solana-based decentralized exchanges (DEXs).
In the past 24 hours, daily trading volume reached an all-time high of over $3.6 billion.
This incredible rise in Solana DEX trading can mainly be attributed to two main factors. One is the network’s extremely low transaction fees, and the second is the growing popularity of meme coins. Notable meme coins such as Wen, Dogwifhat, Bonk, and Book of Meme (BOME) have seen significant trading volume and interest recently.
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Interestingly, the collective impact of these factors has led to Solana’s DEX trading volume surpassing that of Ethereum several times in recent months.
“Solana is incredibly congested right now and we are still breaking records for all-time DEX volume to see what we can achieve if the network works better,” said Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helius Labs.
Of particular interest are Solana’s top three frontrunners among DEX platforms: Orca leads with $1.64 billion in trading volume over the last 24 hours, followed by Raydium with $867 million and Lifinity with $679 million.
Meanwhile, the total value of assets locked on the Solana network also reached a two-year high of nearly $4 billion. DeFi analyst Patrick Scott pointed out an interesting fact. Solana DeFi TVL with Liquid Staking flipped Binance Smart Chain (BSC) for the first time last day.
“In 2023, Solana DeFi was declared dead. Since then, TVL has increased 18 times. And yesterday Solana toppled Ethereum in daily stablecoin transfer volume. “This is a significant transition.” Renowned cryptocurrency influencer Lark Davis decided.
Additionally, the network has seen a noticeable increase in the creation of new Solana Public Library (SPL) tokens. Over the past week, on average, more than 7,800 SPL tokens have been minted daily on the Solana network. On March 11, the figure peaked at 9,690 tokens, setting a new daily record, according to Solscan data.
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All of these milestones reflect Solana’s upward trajectory within the DeFi ecosystem. This positions it as a strong competitor to Ethereum’s continued sector dominance.
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