Solana’s Transaction Volume and Revenue Surpass All Major Layer 1 Blockchains

Solana has reported processing approximately 70 million daily transactions and achieving $143 billion in decentralized exchange (DEX) volume throughout October 2025. The network is supported by 1,295 validators operating across 40 countries and maintains a Nakamoto Coefficient of 20. Its throughput stands at approximately 1,100 transactions per second.

In comparison, Ethereum processed fewer than 1.2 million daily transactions during the same period, with most DeFi activity shifting to layer-2 rollups. Solana's single-layer architecture facilitates all transactions on one layer, avoiding fragmentation and maintaining stable fees.

Jake Kennis, senior research analyst at Nansen, noted,

“Solana’s runtime did the hard work first: Sealevel’s parallel execution, sub-second blocks, stake-weighted QoS over QUIC kept latency low and fees stable under load. That design avoided rollup-style fragmentation and delivered ‘one venue, one wallet, one mempool’ trading.”

Market catalysts for Solana have included Jito airdrops in 2023, Jupiter airdrops in 2024, memecoin activity through Pump.fun, and wallet integrations from Phantom, Jupiter and Uniswap.

Institutional interest in Solana is also gaining momentum through pending approvals of multiple US-listed Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs). VanEck’s spot Solana ETF has a deadline for filing responses to the SEC by late 2025, while Bitwise’s Solana staking ETF was launched in October 2025 with over $69 million in inflows on the first day. These ETFs are expected to bring significant capital inflows and have sparked investor optimism, despite some recent price volatility.

A notable investment development is the US-listed Forward Industries’ private placement raising $1.65 billion to anchor its Solana treasury strategy. The company now holds approximately 6.8 million SOL tokens, worth about $1.5 billion, becoming the largest publicly traded Solana treasury. Following this, Forward Industries filed to raise an additional $4 billion via a market offering to further expand its Solana holdings and operations.

Forward Industries has also launched a Solana validator node based on the DoubleZero network and using the Firedancer client from Jump Crypto, allowing investors to delegate stake without fees. This validator is expected to rank among Solana’s top 10 by stake.

To enhance network resilience, Solana introduced performance improvements following a five-hour outage in February 2024, including stake-weighted Quality of Service (QoS), testing the Firedancer client to diversify validator software, and adjusting validator economics via priority fee routing.