Solana: Can soaring metrics add fuel to SOL’s rally

• Solana’s TVL is at its highest level since October 2022.
• The chain’s DEX trading volume recently touched its year-to-date high.

Solana’s [SOL] decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has experienced a surge of activity in the past two months, with its total value locked (TVL) reaching its highest point since the year began, according to data from DeFiLlama.

Source: DefiLlama

At press time, Solana’s TVL was $1.30 billion. The last time the network’s TVL was this high was in  October 2022.

For context, as of 1st January, the network’s TVL was a mere $210 million, showing that Solana’s TVL has witnessed a year-to-date (YTD) growth of 519%. 

Over the past month alone, Solana’s DeFi vertical has witnessed an impressive 130% growth. This is in tandem with the network-wide growth that the Layer 1 (L1) blockchain network has seen within that period.

Leading DeFi protocols on Solana, such as Marinade Finance, Jito, and Marginfi, have witnessed respective TVL growths of 87%, 55%, and 165% in the last 30 days.

Solana aims to close the year with a bang

The month so far has seen a remarkable uptick in the demand for the network. An assessment of the chain’s network activity revealed that its daily count of active addresses climbed to a YTD high of 1.26 million on 17th December. 

While this has seen a slight retracement, Solana’s daily active address count has increased by 157% since the beginning of the month.

Source: Artemis

 When a network’s user count increases, it sees a corresponding transaction increment. On Solana, the total number of transactions registered on-chain daily has gone up by 23% since 1st December.

As for the decentralized exchanges (DEXes) on Solana, the trade volume executed through them touched a YTD high of 2.61 billion on 22nd December, according to data from Artemis.

This marked a whopping 17,000% in DEX trading volume on Solana so far this year. 

Source: Artemis

As a result of the increased activity on Solana in the last 30 days, monthly fees generated from users currently sit at its highest since the year began. 

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According to data from Token Terminal, so far this month, Solana’s transaction fees have totaled $3.7 million.

Source: Token Terminal

The monthly revenue derived from the same has also been at its highest since January. With a week left till the close of the 2023 trading year, the network has seen a monthly revenue of $1.9 million.