◎ High-Performance L1

Solana (SOL)
Ecosystem Analytics

Speed, scale, and a thriving DeFi ecosystem. Track live Solana metrics, key protocols, and on-chain data.

Explore Ecosystem SOL Price Chart Why Solana?
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SOL Price
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Market Cap
~7.0%
Staking Yield (APY)
~1,400
Active Validators
⚡ Key Network Metrics

Live on-chain data from the Solana mainnet RPC

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Transactions Per Second
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~388M
Total Staked SOL
≈ 65% of circulating supply staked
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~$6.5B
DeFi TVL
Approximate — see DeFiLlama for live data
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595M
Circulating Supply
Total supply: ~595M SOL
🗺 Solana Ecosystem Map

Key protocols powering the Solana DeFi, trading, staking, and web3 economy

Jupiter
JUP
The largest DEX aggregator on Solana. Routes trades across all major AMMs to find the best price. Also offers limit orders, DCA, and the Jupiter Token (JUP) governance.
$1B+
Daily Volume
#1
DEX Aggregator
DEX Aggregator
Raydium
RAY
Leading AMM and liquidity protocol on Solana. Powers concentrated liquidity pools, yield farming, and the LaunchLab token launch platform. Deeply integrated with OpenBook orderbook.
$500M+
TVL
CLMM
Pool Type
AMM / DEX
Marinade Finance
MNDE · mSOL
The largest liquid staking protocol on Solana. Stake SOL and receive mSOL — a yield-bearing token usable across DeFi while your stake earns ~7% APY. Delegates to 450+ validators.
~$1.5B
TVL
450+
Validators
Liquid Staking
Jito
JTO · jitoSOL
MEV-optimized liquid staking and block engine for Solana. jitoSOL captures MEV rewards on top of standard staking yield. Jito's block engine powers most of Solana's block production.
~$2B
TVL
MEV+
Yield Type
Liquid Staking MEV
Drift Protocol
DRIFT
The largest perpetuals DEX on Solana. Offers cross-margined perpetual futures, spot margin trading, and borrow/lend. Built with a virtual AMM (vAMM) for deep liquidity.
$400M+
Open Interest
50+
Perp Markets
Perps Trading
Kamino Finance
KMNO
Leading lending and leverage protocol on Solana. Offers automated CLMM liquidity strategies, leveraged yield farming, and one of the largest money markets on the network.
$1B+
TVL
Multi
Strategies
Lending / Leverage
Tensor
TNSR
The leading NFT marketplace on Solana with pro-trader tools. Features fast collection sweeps, rarity filters, real-time floor tracking, and the TNSR governance token with marketplace fee sharing.
#1
NFT Volume
Pro
Trader Focus
NFT Marketplace
Helium
HNT · MOBILE · IOT
The world's largest decentralized wireless network, migrated to Solana in 2023. Hotspot operators earn HNT by providing LoRaWAN (IoT) and 5G (MOBILE) coverage across 180+ countries.
1M+
Hotspots
180+
Countries
DePIN
📈 SOL / USD — 2 Year Price Chart

Historical SOL price data from Kraken (SOLUSD pair)

SOL Price (USD) — 2Y
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🚀 Why Solana?

The case for Solana as the leading high-performance smart contract platform

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Unmatched Speed
Solana achieves 2,000–5,000+ real TPS in production, with a theoretical max of 65,000 TPS. Block times of ~400ms make it the fastest L1 for consumer applications.
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Near-Zero Fees
Average transaction fees of $0.0001–$0.001. Priority fees during congestion remain under $0.01 for most transactions — enabling micropayments and high-frequency trading at scale.
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Ecosystem Growth
Over $6B+ in DeFi TVL, 100M+ wallets created, and category-leading apps in DEX (Jupiter), liquid staking (Jito/Marinade), perps (Drift), and DePIN (Helium).
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Developer Momentum
Solana has the fastest-growing developer ecosystem after Ethereum. The Anchor framework, compressed NFTs, and state compression unlock new app categories impossible on other chains.
SOL vs ETH — By the Numbers
Metric
◎ Solana
Ξ Ethereum
Avg. Transaction Fee
~$0.0005 winner
$0.50–$5+
Block Time
~400 ms winner
~12 seconds
Throughput (TPS)
2,000–5,000+ winner
15–30 TPS (L1)
Staking Yield (APY)
~7.0%
~3.5% (ETH winner on security)
DeFi TVL
~$6.5B
~$60B+ (ETH winner on TVL)
Validator Count
~1,400
~1,000,000+ (ETH winner on decentralization)
Consensus Mechanism
PoH + PoS
PoS (Casper)