Solana’s Monthly DEX Crosses $60B for the First Time

The layer-1 blockchain Solana saw one of its best performances last month. While the blockchain’s coin (SOL) inched closer to its all-time high, other metrics within the ecosystem saw massive growth. On-chain data from blockchain analytics platform DeFiLlama confirms that Solana’s decentralized exchange (DEX) market broke a new peak value of over $60.3 billion in trading volume within a month.

Solana DEX Market Breaks $60B

Solana’s DEX market comprises exchanges like Orca, Phoenix, Raydium, Lifinity, and others. A surge in engagement with these decentralized projects fueled the massive surge in monthly inflows into the layer-1 blockchain. Recall that Solana’s DEX market soaked up over $50 billion in trading volume before the end of last month.

The chart above shows that this is the first time Solana will break the $60 billion range within its DEX market. Before now, these projects garnered over $28 billion in trading volume in December 2023. In January and February 2024, the DEX market saw a monthly volume of $22.65 billion and $22.58 million, respectively.

Currently, the DEX market sees a daily trading volume of $917.2 million, a 40% decrease within the past week.

Ripple Effect on SOL

During last month’s bull run for the Solana ecosystem, SOL’s price soared to $202, nearing its peak value of $259.96. Investors eyed $220 as the next price height for the native coin. Aside from the DEX market, other factors contributed to Solana’s flourishing season throughout the month.

One of them was the memecoin boom. Investors poured millions of dollars into several memecoins. Prominent among these Solana-based memecoins were Dogwifhat (WIF) and Bonk (BONK). Dogwifhat, for example, skyrocketed from being a low-valued memecoin to the third-largest memecoin by market cap ranking. WIF’s market cap at press time was worth over $4.1 billion.

SOL currently traded at $189, representing a 3.89% drop within the past 24 hours.