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A new report has highlighted the key changes that could follow a significant increase in numbers Solana liquid strike. Driven by strong investor demand, Solana could benefit significantly if Solana’s liquid stakes reach $18 billion Solana (SOL) and Jito (JTO), a liquid staking token on the Solana blockchain, which could potentially fuel positive momentum and a rise in the value of both altcoins.
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In recent years SOL has had an impressive runwhile outperforming most altcoins leading the meme coin market with its numerous blockchain-based meme coins. However, the cryptocurrency’s Liquid Staking ratio has remained significantly low compared to Ethereum’s. Only 6.5% of Solana is invested via liquid staking, which is only a third of Ethereum’s LSTs.
In a recent one reportBybit has since announced this Liquid Staking Tokens (LST) on the Solana blockchain did not experience immediate growth, they are now starting to show signs of expansion and dominance in the DeFi landscape.
Currently, half of the top 10 largest DeFi protocols are through Total value locked (TVL) on Solana there are now Liquid Staking providers, indicating rapid growth in the LST market. Additionally, the total market cap of LSTs on Solana increased to $3.6 billion, reflecting a nearly 16x increase in value from a year ago.
Based on Ethereum’s LST market statistics, Bite predicts that Solana’s LST market could potentially grow to $18 billion, which is five times its current value. However, this huge increase is dependent on Solana’s LST ratio reaching that of Ethereum.
Given how ambitious an $18 billion increase is, Bybit sees this as a more conservative and potentially achievable estimate. The report has suggested that if Solana’s liquid staking ratio were to grow by just 10%, it would represent a 53% increase in the size of the liquid staking market.
To make this happen, Solana’s DeFi ecosystem is expected to gradually increase as demand for LSTs on the blockchain increases. This increased demand can lead to mass adoptionattracting more developers, users and protocols to the Solana ecosystem.
Furthermore, Bybit has highlighted its role in developing and improving the growth of Solana LSTs. To drive mass adoption in the LST market and Solana’s DeFi ecosystem, Bybit has announced its plans to launch its own liquid staking token on the Solana blockchain.
Key players that can benefit from the growth of Solana’s liquid stakes
In particular, the growth of Solana’s Liquid Staking could have a major impact on the price dynamics of both SOL, Solana’s native token and JTO, Jito’s native token. An increase in the number of Solana LSTs indicates increased adoption of the blockchain, which could attract a wave of new investors and users to SOL.
This in turn could drive positive momentum for SOLpotentially allowing the altco to experience a significant price rally. Meanwhile, JTO, one of the major altcoins in the Solana LST market, will benefit greatly if Solana’s liquid stake reaches $18 billion.
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With nearly $1.8 billion in SOL invested and a 50% market share in Solana LST, JTO is ideally positioned to benefit from the expected growth of Solana’s Liquid staking ecosystem.
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