Solana dominated large cryptocurrencies in real economic value (Rev) and the volumes DEX during the first half of 2025, according to Helius’ “Solana Ecosystem Report H1 2025. “”
The report stressed that Solana led all blockchains in Rev since October 2024 and reached $ 551 million in January 2025.
REV is a metric that measures monetary demand for the use of a blockchain network for transactions, including basic transaction costs and off -protocol advice.
Daily REV reached $ 56.8 million on January 19, exceeding the combined value of Ethereum and Bitcoin.
In particular, Jito TIPS contributed between 42% and 66% of the monthly revelation, showing that users pay important premiums for priority execution and confirming a mature market for maximum extractable value (MEV) which channels revenues to validators without increasing median costs.
Daily transactions top 160m
The report noted that the costs structure allowed Solana to absorb circulation peaks, such as the frenzy of Trump Memecoin of January, while maintaining median costs of almost $ 0.003.
The network has treated around 162 million transactions daily, with an average slit time of around 390 milliseconds (MS), and has not stopped since February 2024.
According to the report, the next Alpenglow shows, currently in the test phase, aims for a purpose of 100 to 150 ms and reduces the capital of the validator’s balance to around $ 75,000.
The total locked value was on average between $ 8 billion and $ 9 billion in the first half of 2025, with an 18% increase in a quarter on site, ranking Solana in second position against Ethereum.
The Jupiter platform for perpetual exchanges managed about $ 1 billion in daily volume and represented 79% of the chain Perps market, while commercial bots performed about half of all swaps.
The jitosol with liquid toland has maintained about 39% of the share of implementation. The network has paid 81% of all DEX exchanges in 2024 and succeeded in $ 890 billion in the DEX negotiation volume during the first five months of 2025.
The traction of the real world develops outside the chain
The Float of Stablecoin on Solana increased from $ 1.5 billion to $ 11.7 billion in 18 months, with a circle striking $ 1.75 billion in USDC in May only.
Telecom App Helium Mobile added around 300,000 subscribers in the first quarter.
The report added that the Crowdsourcée cartography project, Hivemapper, covered 30% of the world roads, and the Baxus tokenized asset market recorded an increase of 11,500% of cryptographic payments, as well as an increase of foreign buyers.
