No Chain Comes Close: Solana Leads With 2.5x Ethereum’s Revenue

Solana has pulled well ahead of other networks on a key measure: ￰1￱ gap is large enough to change how traders and builders talk about where money flows in ￰2￱ Reading: Altcoins Feel The Pinch As Crypto Market Sentiment Sours Solana Tops Blockchain Revenue Charts According to data shared by crypto media outlets, Solana has generated $1.25 billion in revenue ￰3￱ is about two and a half times the revenue of Ethereum, which sits at $523 million so far this ￰4￱ two other chains have cleared the $100 million mark: BNB Smart Chain at $148 million and Bitcoin at $135 million. Base, Coinbase’s layer-2, records $54 million and leads the L2 group, while Arbitrum, Polygon and Optimism report revenues between $10.80 million and nearly $3 million. $SOL is in a league of its ￰5￱ has generated $1.25B in revenue YTD… Nearly 2.5x more than Ethereum.

That’s real demand for blockspace and right now, no chain comes ￰6￱ — Milk Road (@MilkRoadDaily) September 8, 2025 Monthly Numbers Show App-Driven Growth In the past 30 days, Solana pulled in more than $210 million in ￰7￱ of that cash was earned by apps on the network rather than by Solana’s base ￰8￱ on reports, memecoin launchpad ￰9￱ and trading bot Axiom Pro generated close to $53 million and $51 million respectively in the last ￰10￱ exchanges such as Jupiter and Meteora, along with the Phantom wallet, also rank among the top revenue generators. Solana’s own on-chain fee haul was $4.56 million over the same period, placing the chain itself eighth among revenue ￰11￱ Capture Most Of The Fees Reports have disclosed that developers and investors see this as a feature of Solana: apps can make big money ￰12￱ Exchange became the fastest app to reach $200 million in revenue, doing so in 202 days when it hit the mark on August ￰13￱ reached $200 million in 303 ￰14￱ Labs CEO Mert Mumtaz has said that the ecosystem’s architecture attracts builders who can run revenue-heavy services, and the numbers appear to back that view. #Solana surges 5.8% to $215 🚀 DEX volume hits $2.6B in 24H, fueled by #DeFi.

Trump-backed $WLFI leads with $1.23B, showing political hype is driving liquidity and cementing Solana as the go-to for high-volume ￰15￱ out Top 10 Tokens on Solana by 24H Volume 📈 Which… ￰0￱ ￰16￱ — Solana Daily (@solana_daily) September 8, 2025 Related Reading: Bitcoin Could Hit $150K By Christmas, Analysts Tell Michael Saylor Price Moves Follow Revenue Headlines SOL has been ￰17￱ to price trackers, SOL climbed about 6% to $215 in a single session and is up 17% over the past 30 days. Year-to-date, however, SOL lags some larger tokens such as Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and ￰18￱ gains and big app revenues together are driving bullish sentiment among traders and some fund ￰19￱ image from Shutterstock, chart from TradingView