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Solana (soil) has come out of one of its most turbulent periods to date. Tested in the contract in the first quarter of 2025 by an unprecedented wave of launch of the same on platforms like Pump.fun, the network was confronted both with an extraordinary transaction volume and congestion. He saw tens of thousands of new token launches in a few months, bringing billions of dollars in chain thanks to millions of transactions.
It was a real test of how Solana would behave under pressure. However, rather than wavering, the network has adapted and improved. From this intense period of activity on the chain, a more resilient blockchain emerged – that which is increasingly considered as not only a “memechain” but as a fundamental layer for stablecoins and real payments.
The memecoin stress test
Samecoins, despite their speculative nature, served a precious objective: they pushed Solana’s infrastructure at the limit. During the January summit, tokens like official Trump (Trump) and Melania (Melania) helped generate decentralized Solana exchanges at a commercial volume of $ 40 billion over 24 hours.
Together, these two tokens even reached an entirely diluted combined assessment (FDV) of nearly $ 70 billion, that of numerous listed companies. This sent the daily trading volume to Pump.
This attack exposed certain problems: the validators have reached calculation limits, strangled RPCs and commercial robots found it difficult to keep the pace. But, in response, Solana’s main developers have sent the weighted quality of service according to warning to prioritize honest traffic, networking fixed networks to reduce the loss of packets and advanced priority so that users can reduce the line transparent.
In short, the fundamental thesis of the network – this better hardware store leads to better scalability – has increased well under pressure.
Speculation stability
Now that the memecoin tide has reflected, the real opportunity is clear. Stablecoins – in reliable digital cash in dollars – see rapid growth on Solana. The exceptional Stablecoin float of the network is at a historic summit of approximately $ 12.7 billion, more than double the figure a year ago and at a time of the peak of all time from Ethereum.
Why the influx? Solana is the first L1 which combines the purpose of the subseconds, the fractions of costs of that and the flow tested in combat. In simple terms, there is no roll-ups, there is no expectation, the micro-paids are finally economical and the flow was completely proven during the frenzy of the Q1. The chain is finally ready for monetary markets and payment rails, which traditional users and regulators need.
The real world rails are already there
Take USDG, for example. This stablecoin, published by Paxos Digital Singapore and designed to comply with the monetary authority of the next Singapore Stablecoin regulation framework, is now live on Solana, giving fintech companies a means of transferring US dollars to the world in a few seconds for a fraction of a cent. A inexpensive final regulations at Internet speed is no longer just a theory, but a reality.
And then there is Franklin Templeton’s Onchain Us Government Money Fund. One of the largest asset managers in the world is monetary market sharing at Solana tokenage, because the debit and chain’s day care tools are already familiar to traditional funding teams.
Collectively, these heavy strikers do not hunt the memes; They continue the global payment market of $ 20 billion that Statista rides for 2025. If even 1% of this flow landed on Solana, it would overshadow all the market capitalization of the crypto – and it is the stability of these new rail manufacturers who will get there.
Firedancer: the next upgrade
There are also more good news in the pipeline. Later this year, the independent customer of the independent validator of Jump Crypto, Firedancer, landed on Mainnet, who promises a faster 50x block spread and a design ceiling of 1 million transactions per second.
For transmitting transmitters and payment suppliers, Firedancer could change the situation: it offers a deterministic purpose, even during transaction peaks in Black Friday. For Solana manufacturers, the upgrade is the green light to aggregate liquidity in a wide range of automated market manufacturers, dex or RFQ premises without worrying about the stability of the network.
A call to manufacturers
Mechanics were a stress test. Stablecoins are the real opportunity. For developers working on portfolios, payment applications, transfer tools or trading infrastructure, Solana is optimized and ready, and now the next phase begins. In fact, he would not be too eccentric to say that this is what the blockchain has always prepared.
When even attention, stablecoins promise an adoption. Solana has shown that he can manage the volume, and with Firedancer on the horizon, he will only improve from here. For manufacturers looking for deep liquidity, reliable performance and low costs, Solana is an increasingly convincing choice.
In fact, it quickly turns into the Nasdaq Anatoly Yakovenko quality colony layer envisaged in 2020.
