Solana Statistics 2026: TPS, Validators, TVL and DEX Volume

Solana processed approximately $650 billion in stablecoin transaction volume (adjusted) during February 2026, the highest monthly figure recorded by any blockchain that month, even though the network sat in third place by absolute stablecoin supply. In Q1 2026, the network handled roughly 10.1 billion transactions, the highest quarterly figure in Solana’s history, while earning around $89.5 million in network-level fee revenue.

Key Takeaways

• Solana’s real-time throughput averaged 1,899 transactions per second in late June 2026, against a theoretical maximum of 65,000 TPS (Chainspect).
• The network ran on 906 active validators, down roughly 33% during 2025 from a 2023 peak of approximately 2,560 validators (SolanaFloor).
• DeFi total value locked sat at roughly $5.49 billion on April 27, 2026, down about 56% from the August 2025 peak above $11.5 billion (DefiLlama).
• January 2026 DEX volume reached $117.7 billion, a 20% month-over-month increase that gave Solana the top spot across all blockchains (Phemex News).
• Q1 2026 closed with roughly 2.4 million daily active addresses on average and a Chain GDP of $342.2 million (Messari).
• More than 26% of Solana validators were running the Firedancer or Frankendancer client by May 2026, less than six months after the December 12, 2025 mainnet launch.

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• Solana’s maximum recorded TPS over a 100-block window stood at 6,284 tx/s, with a block time of 404 ms and time-to-finality near 12.8 seconds as measured by Chainspect.
• The network was distributed across 4,514 nodes at epoch 685, including 1,414 validators and 3,100 RPCs, according to Helius.
• Solana’s Nakamoto Coefficient was frequently cited as 19, with no single validator controlling more than 3.2% of total stake.
• Kamino Lend stood as the largest single Solana DeFi protocol by TVL at $1.48 billion on April 27, 2026, per DefiLlama.
• Solana’s SOL-denominated TVL crossed 80 million SOL, reaching an all-time high (Solana Foundation), even as DefiLlama recorded dollar-denominated TVL down roughly 56% from the August 2025 peak above $11.5 billion.
• USDT supply on Solana grew 9.01% over 30 days to reach $2.66 billion as of June 25, 2026, representing 1.43% of the $186.33 billion global USDT float.
• BlackRock’s BUIDL fund crossed $550 million in assets on Solana, and Solana spot ETFs together attracted more than $900 million in cumulative inflows since launch.

Solana Network Performance and TPS

• Chainspect’s telemetry showed Solana running at 1,899 transactions per second on its rolling one-hour window, with a maximum over the prior 100 blocks of 6,284 tx/s and a theoretical ceiling of 65,000 tx/s.
• The same dataset listed Solana’s block time at 404 ms and time-to-finality at 12.8 seconds, against a network launch date of March 16, 2020.
• The roughly 34x gap between real-world and theoretical throughput represents what the protocol’s clock can sequence under optimized conditions, not what current validator hardware processes.

Source: Chainspect, late June 2026

Across the full first quarter of 2026, Solana processed roughly 10.1 billion transactions, the highest quarterly figure in the network’s history. Read against a 90-day window, that quarterly figure implies a sustained average throughput close to the live readings above. The headline real-time TPS is not a peak; it is the floor.

Solana Validator Count and Decentralization

• Solana’s validator set was distributed across 4,514 nodes at epoch 685, of which 1,414 were voting validators, and 3,100 were RPC nodes, per Helius.
• No single validator controlled more than 3.2% of total stake, and the Nakamoto Coefficient was frequently cited as 19.
• The validator set spanned 37 countries and territories, with 50.5% of stake delegated to validators operating inside the European Union.
• At the same time, SolanaFloor’s tracking showed the active validator count had dropped from approximately 2,560 in early 2023 to 906, a 33% decline during 2025 alone, while the superminority count fell from 34 validators in 2023 to 20.

Why it matters: Helius reports 50.5% of Solana’s stake operates inside the European Union, a stake-jurisdiction concentration most Solana coverage glosses over. Under the EU’s MiCA framework and forthcoming Digital Operational Resilience Act provisions, that share matters for any institutional allocator running a concentration test against single-regulator exposure.

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Recent Developments

• June 25, 2026: USDT supply on Solana reached $2.66 billion, up 9.01% over the prior 30 days from $2.44 billion on May 26, 2026.
• May 2026: More than 26% of Solana validators were running either the full Firedancer client or the Frankendancer hybrid, just over five months after Jump Crypto’s mainnet launch.
• Mid-May 2026: Solana’s dollar-denominated TVL sat near $5.5 billion, representing approximately 6.76% of global DeFi TVL per DefiLlama.
• April 27, 2026: DefiLlama recorded Solana DeFi TVL at roughly $5.49 billion, with Kamino Lend leading at $1.48 billion.
• Q1 2026 close: Stablecoins on Solana ended the quarter at approximately $14.85 billion, ranking third among all networks by stablecoin capitalization (Messari).
• December 12, 2025: Jump Crypto announced the full Firedancer mainnet launch at Solana Breakpoint in Abu Dhabi after three years of development.

Solana DeFi TVL and Largest Protocols

• Solana DeFi total value locked sat at roughly $5.49 billion on April 27, 2026, per DefiLlama, down approximately 56% from the August 2025 peak above $11.5 billion.
• Kamino Lend was the largest single Solana DeFi protocol by TVL at $1.48 billion on the same date.
• DefiLlama’s chain TVL excludes centralized exchange wallet balances on Solana but includes lending, liquid staking, decentralized exchanges, derivatives, and real-world-asset tokenization protocols.
• Native commitment held even as DefiLlama recorded dollar TVL falling roughly 56% from the August 2025 peak: SOL-denominated TVL crossed 80 million SOL, an all-time high per the Solana Foundation’s February ecosystem report.

The split between SOL-denominated and dollar-denominated TVL is the cleanest read on whether DeFi participants are exiting or simply riding a token price drawdown. Native units up, dollar units down means stakers stayed; they just watched the unit of account compress around them. Compared against Ethereum, where dollar TVL still anchors most institutional dashboards, Solana’s split-unit framing matters more.

DEX Volume and On-Chain Trading

Source: Phemex News and Solana Foundation, January-March 2026

• Solana’s decentralized exchange trading volume reached approximately $117.7 billion in January 2026, marking a 20% increase from the previous month.
• Solana’s January 2026 trading activity accounted for about 35% of total on-chain trading volume across all networks, placing it at the top among all blockchains in DEX trading volume.
• Solana Foundation’s February ecosystem report noted that Solana led all chains in DEX volume during the month.
• Always cross-reference DefiLlama’s chain DEX page against monthly Solana Foundation reporting; methodology between aggregator series and primary AMM flow can differ.

Stablecoin Supply and Transaction Volume on Solana

• Solana processed approximately $650 billion in stablecoin transaction volume (adjusted) during February 2026, described by Everstake as the highest monthly figure recorded by any blockchain that month.
• At the same time, Solana held an estimated $15 billion to $16 billion in total stablecoin supply, against Ethereum at more than $158 billion, TRON at more than $85 billion and BSC at more than $13 billion.
• As of June 25, 2026, Solana’s total USD-pegged stablecoin base sat at $14.75 billion, with USDT alone at $2.66 billion after over 30 days of 9.01% growth, representing 1.43% of the $186.33 billion global USDT float.

By the numbers: Everstake’s adjusted volume series places Solana at $650 billion in February 2026 stablecoin transactions versus a $15 billion chain-level supply base. That ratio, settlement velocity roughly 43x supply per month, sits well above Ethereum’s settlement-velocity profile, which trades on a deeper supply base.

Solana’s velocity-vs-supply skew is the clearest argument that the network has emerged as a payments-rail competitor rather than a settlement-store. The reading aligns with what we’ve tracked across blockchains in 2026: cheap blockspace and sub-second confirmations move stablecoins more often, even on smaller supply pools.

Network Activity and Fee Revenue

• Across Q1 2026, Solana processed roughly 10.1 billion transactions, the highest quarterly figure in the network’s history.
• Daily active addresses averaged approximately 2.4 million per day across Q1 2026, according to Messari’s data.
• Network-level fee revenue came in at around $89.5 million for the quarter, second only to Hyperliquid among all blockchain networks.
• Messari’s State of Solana Q1 2026 report logged a historic Chain GDP of $342.2 million and recorded that RWA tokenization on the chain crossed the $2 billion milestone.
• January 2026 set the quarter’s pace: active addresses more than doubled to over 5 million, daily transaction volume increased from 52 million to 87 million, and transaction fees exceeded $1.1 million.

Source: Messari State of Solana Q1 2026 report, April 2026

Institutional Adoption: ETFs, BUIDL and Treasury Holdings

• Solana ETF cumulative inflows surpassed $900 million since their respective launches, with 12 or more consecutive days of net inflows through February (Solana Foundation).
• BlackRock’s BUIDL fund crossed $550 million in assets on Solana specifically.
• Goldman Sachs disclosed $108 million in SOL holdings during the same window.
• Real-world-asset market cap on Solana hit $1.71 billion in late February, a 45% increase over the prior 30-day period.

Key finding: Solana Foundation: the combined institutional-rail signal, $550 million BUIDL allocation, $108 million Goldman Sachs SOL holdings, $900 million in ETF inflows and a 45% RWA market cap surge, converged inside a single 30-day window in late February 2026. That is the most concentrated institutional onboarding the network has logged to date.

Firedancer Client Diversification

Source: TradingView News / Jump Crypto, May 2026

• Firedancer went live on Solana mainnet in December 2025 after three years of development by Jump Crypto, with the full mainnet launch announced on December 12, 2025, at Solana Breakpoint in Abu Dhabi.
• By May 2026, more than 26% of Solana validators were running either the full Firedancer client or the Frankendancer hybrid. Q2-Q3 2026 targets called for a 50% Firedancer stake.
• Firedancer demonstrated more than 1 million TPS in controlled testing environments. Inside the engineering pool, Agave had 357 individual contributors while Firedancer had 57 contributors, per Helius.
• The validator paradox of 2025-2026 is that node count fell ~33% while client diversity climbed from a single Agave dependency to a two-client posture.
• Fewer nodes can still mean a more resilient network when the surviving nodes run different software, a lesson Ethereum learned during the 2022 Bellatrix-era client diversity push.

Geographic Distribution of Stake and Hosting

• Helius reported that 632 validators (46% of the set) operated in Europe and 550 (40%) in North America, with the United States holding 18.3% of stake, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom each at 13.7%, and Germany at 13.2%.
• The European Union as a single regulatory bloc concentrated 50.5% of network stake.
• Across hosting providers, the validator set was dispersed across 135 different providers, with Teraswitch (24%) and Latitude.sh (19%) accounting for 43.4% of stake combined, followed by OVHcloud at 8.65% and Cherry Servers at 8.45%.

Worth noting: Helius’s hosting concentration data shows the top two providers (Teraswitch and Latitude.sh) carry 43.4% of stake between them. For a network that markets decentralization at the validator-count level, the hosting-provider layer is the under-monitored single-point-of-failure surface.

Solana vs Ethereum: Transaction Velocity Comparison

Source: Everstake and Chainspect, February-June 2026

• Everstake’s February 2026 analysis placed Solana at the top of the chain rankings for stablecoin transaction volume in that month, with Ethereum, TRON and BSC ranked behind it despite Ethereum holding more than $158 billion in stablecoin supply against Solana’s roughly $15 billion.
• Chainspect logged Solana’s real-time throughput at 1,899 tx/s with a theoretical maximum of 65,000 tx/s, while Firedancer demonstrated more than 1 million TPS in controlled testing environments.

How many validators does Solana have today?

SolanaFloor’s tracking placed Solana’s active validator count at 906, down from a peak of approximately 2,560 in early 2023, a 33% drop during 2025 alone. The superminority, the smallest set of validators that together control more than one-third of stake, fell from 34 to 20 across the same window, signaling stake concentration even as the validator headcount shrank. The active-validator headcount is the most-cited crypto exchange market data substitute when researchers want to gauge network resilience, though it lags the deeper hosting and client-diversity signals.

What is Solana’s average TPS today?

Chainspect’s readings showed Solana running at 1,899 transactions per second on a one-hour rolling window, with a 100-block maximum of 6,284 tx/s and a theoretical ceiling of 65,000 tx/s. Real-world throughput sits roughly 34x below the theoretical maximum, leaving substantial headroom that the Firedancer client is designed to capture.

How much TVL sits on Solana right now?

DefiLlama recorded Solana DeFi TVL at roughly $5.49 billion on April 27, 2026, with the figure sitting near $5.5 billion in mid-May 2026 and accounting for approximately 6.76% of global DeFi TVL. That stands roughly 56% below the August 2025 peak above $11.5 billion, even as the SOL-denominated TVL hit an all-time high during the same window. The DeFi share sits alongside the broader DeFi market data showing chain rotation toward higher-throughput layer ones during the same period.

Conclusion

Solana’s current numbers layer together: 1,899 real-time TPS against a 65,000 ceiling, 906 validators, $5.49 billion TVL, and $650 billion February stablecoin volume on a $15 billion supply base. The institutional rail is the trajectory to watch. BUIDL at $550 million, Goldman Sachs at $108 million, and $900 million in cumulative ETF inflows, alongside the 50.5% EU stake concentration that MiCA may eventually test.