The world’s most-used blockchain simply bagged its largest ever each day charges. On Saturday, Donald Trump’s official token, TRUMP, was issued on the Solana blockchain, which led to an uptick in buying and selling volumes over the weekend.
Between Saturday and Sunday, the community generated charges of over $35 million and income of at the least $14 million, DeFiLlama knowledge reveals. This quantity originated from some 6 million lively addresses.
These charges are greater than double of Nov. 22 ranges of practically $14 million, when a number of AI Agent tokens populated the community and led to a buying and selling frenzy.
Such charges are remarkably excessive for a low-cost blockchain, when transactions sometimes take fractions of a cent to settle. The TRUMP token attracted over $3 billion in buying and selling volumes on Saturday and Sunday, with different ecosystem performs, equivalent to Jupiter’s JUP, seeing heightened curiosity from merchants.
The selection of Solana as an issuance community, in flip, bumped demand and sentiment for SOL tokens, as reported by CoinDesk. SOL buying and selling volumes have rocketed from Thursday’s $3 billion to over $26 billion previously 24 hours, with Saturday’s strikes bringing weekly positive aspects to over 46%.
SOL has surged practically 3,000% from its three-year low of $9 again in December 2022 when the implosion of crypto trade FTX and distinguished Solana backer Sam Bankman-Fried, dented sentiment for the community.
Late Sunday, First Girl Melania Trump launched her personal memecoin in a transfer that despatched TRUMP spiraling down 50% at one level. The excessive volumes and community requests briefly triggered ecosystem functions Jito and Phantom to come across delays in Asian morning hours, although these have been shortly rectified.
Phantom reported 8 million transactional requests per minute in an X put up. It mentioned customers swapped over $1.25 billion in quantity and made 10 million transactions over a 24-hour interval.
