Solana dominated large cryptocurrencies in real economic value (REV) and DEX volumes in the first half of 2025, according to Helius ”Solana -Ecosystem report H1 2025. “
The report emphasized that Solana has led all block chains in Rev since October 2024 and reached $ 551 million in January 2025.
Rev is a metric that measures the monetary demand for using the network of a blockchain for transactions, including bassiansactie costs and tips for outside printing.
Daily Rev hit $ 56.8 million on January 19 and surpassed the combined value of Ethereum and Bitcoin.
It is remarkable that JITO tips between 42% and 66% of the monthly REV contributed, which shows that users pay significant premiums for priority version and confirm an adult market for maximum extremisable value (MEV) that turns to Validators channels without increasing the median reimbursements.
Daily transactions top 160m
The report noted that the reimbursement structure allowed Solana to absorb traffic peaks, such as Trump Memecoin Frenzy in January, while retaining a median fee of almost $ 0.003.
The network processed around 162 million transactions every day, with an average final time of approximately 390 milliseconds (MS), and has not stopped since February 2024.
According to the report, the upcoming Alpineglow Consensus Code, currently in the test phase, strives for a finality of 100 to 150 MS and Validator Breakeven Capital reduces to around $ 75,000.
The total value locked was on average between $ 8 billion and $ 9 billion in the first half of 2025, with a quarter to quarter to quarter, which only placed Solana on Ethereum.
The Jupiter platform for perpetual Swaps dealt with around $ 1 billion in daily volume and accounted for 79% of the Perps market for chains, while the trade bots were carried out about half of all swaps.
Liquid strike Token Jitosol maintained approximately 39% of the expansion. The network established 81% of all DEX transactions in 2024 and knew $ 890 billion in DEX trade volume during the first five months of 2025.
Real-World Traction is expanding outdoor chain range
The Stablecoin drives on Solana rose from $ 1.5 billion to $ 11.7 billion in 18 months, with Circle in May only $ 1.75 billion in USDC Mint.
Telecom -app Helium Mobile added about 300,000 subscribers in the first quarter.
The report added that CrowdSourced-Mapping project Hivemapper covered 30% of global roads, and the Tokenized-Asset market Baxus registered an increase of 11,500% in crypto payments, in addition to a 50-fold increase in foreign buyers.
