Solana dominated main cryptocurrencies in actual financial worth (REV) and DEX volumes in the course of the first half of 2025, in line with Helius’ “Solana Ecosystem Report H1 2025.”
The report highlighted that Solana has led all blockchains in REV since October 2024 and reached $551 million in January 2025.
REV is a metric that measures the financial demand for utilizing a blockchain’s community for transactions, together with base transaction charges and out-of-protocol ideas.
Each day REV hit $56.8 million on January 19, surpassing the mixed worth of Ethereum and Bitcoin.
Notably, Jito ideas contributed between 42% and 66% of month-to-month REV, displaying that customers pay sizable premiums for precedence execution and confirming a mature marketplace for most extractable worth (MEV) that channels income to validators with out growing median charges.
Each day transactions high 160M
The report famous that the charge construction allowed Solana to soak up visitors spikes, similar to January’s TRUMP memecoin frenzy, whereas sustaining a median charge of almost $0.003.
The community processed roughly 162 million transactions each day, with a median slot time of round 390 milliseconds (ms), and has not halted since February 2024.
In response to the report, the upcoming Alpenglow consensus code, at present within the testing part, goals for a finality of 100 to 150 ms and reduces validator breakeven capital to roughly $75,000.
The whole worth locked averaged between $8 billion and $9 billion in the course of the first half of 2025, with an 18% quarter-on-quarter improve, inserting Solana second solely to Ethereum.
Jupiter’s platform for perpetual swaps dealt with roughly $1 billion in each day quantity and accounted for 79% of the on-chain perps market, whereas buying and selling bots executed roughly half of all swaps.
Liquid staking token JitoSOL saved about 39% of the staking share. The community settled 81% of all DEX trades in 2024 and cleared $890 billion in DEX buying and selling quantity in the course of the first 5 months of 2025.
Actual-world traction expands off-chain attain
The stablecoin float on Solana elevated from $1.5 billion to $11.7 billion in 18 months, with Circle minting $1.75 billion in USDC in Could alone.
Telecom app Helium Cellular added roughly 300,000 subscribers within the first quarter.
The report added that crowdsourced-mapping mission Hivemapper coated 30% of the worldwide roads, and the tokenized-asset market Baxus logged an 11,500% improve in crypto funds, alongside a 50-fold rise in abroad consumers.