Solana has generated $1.25 billion in income year-to-date, sufficient to make it the clear chief for income amongst blockchain networks. Crypto media platform Milk Street shared the information, noting that Solana has 2.5x of Ethereum income.
Based on the information, Ethereum, whereas being the closest to Solana in income, has solely $523.28 million this 12 months. Different networks that come shut are decentralized perps blockchain Hyperliquid, and the TRON community, with $501.71 million and $450.5 million, respectively.
YTD income for blockchain networks (Supply: Milk Street)
Milk Street submit said:
$SOL is in a league of its personal. Solana has generated $1.25B in income YTD… That’s actual demand for blockspace and proper now, no chain comes shut.
Exterior of Solana on the high and the opposite three networks, solely two different chains have generated over 100 million {dollars} in income. These are BNB Sensible Chain with $148.91 million and Bitcoin with $134.9 million. Coinbase layer-2 community Base additionally has $54 million to make it the L2 community with essentially the most income. Its opponents, reminiscent of Arbitrum, Polygon, and Optimism, solely have income ranging between $10.83 million and $2.9 million.
Solana’s management in 2025 income continues a pattern that began in November 2024. Within the first quarter of 2025, the community recorded extra income than all different L1 and L2 Chains mixed, which has continued all year long.
Solana’s income is usually going to apps
Unsurprisingly, Solana additionally leads in month-to-month income, with the community producing greater than $210 million within the final 30 days. Nonetheless, what’s extra fascinating is that a lot of the income goes to the decentralized apps primarily based on the community.
Up to now month, memecoin launchpad Pump.enjoyable and buying and selling bot Axiom Professional account have generated $52.83 million and $50.79 million in income on Solana. Decentralized exchanges Jupiter and Meteora, in addition to crypto pockets Phantom, are amongst Solana’s high ten income mills.
Apparently, Solana itself ranks eighth in income over the previous 30 days, with the chain solely producing $4.56 million. Whereas that is nonetheless important, it’s small in comparison with what different Layer-1 and Layer-2 networks, reminiscent of Hyperliquid, Ethereum, and even Base, generate in chain charges.
Nonetheless, Solana proponents reminiscent of Helius Labs CEO Mert Mumtaz consider that what makes Solana particular is how decentralized apps thrive within the ecosystem. Mumtaz believes many dApps builders are coming to Solana as a result of the ecosystem helps quick revenue-generating apps.
Indicators of this are evident with the buying and selling bot, Axiom Change, lately turning into the quickest app to achieve $200 million in income in August in simply 202 days. The platform reached $200 million in income on August 4 and generated over $50 million up to now 30 days. It reached the milestone even sooner than Pump.enjoyable, which took 303 days.
SOL reaches $216 because the crypto market sees a resurgence in worth
In the meantime, SOL is at the moment on the uptrend, with the altcoin rising as one of many high performers as we speak after seeing greater than 7% rise in worth to achieve $216. The token has been among the finest performers up to now 30 days, choosing up from the place different altcoins reminiscent of Ethereum and XRP seem to have lagged after their earlier positive factors.
Based on CoinMarketCap, SOL is up 19% up to now 30 days, even because it continues to underperform different main cap tokens reminiscent of Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, and BNB in year-to-date efficiency.
Nonetheless, sentiments round Solana are at the moment bullish, particularly in gentle of latest milestones. Past its sizable income, the community additionally lately hit $100 billion in market cap once more, drawing comparisons with main tech corporations reminiscent of Google, Meta, and Nvidia for taking a a lot shorter interval (4.5 years) to hit the milestone.
There are reviews that Solana might quickly have its personal digital belongings treasury heavyweight, with Ahead Industries asserting plans to spend $1.65 billion in non-public placement money and stablecoin commitments to amass SOL.
Whereas different publicly traded corporations, reminiscent of Sol Methods and DeFi Growth Corp, have already created SOL treasuries, this marks the primary time a Nasdaq-listed firm will deploy institutional capital immediately in direction of shopping for SOL.
