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- Solana recorded a surge in interest in its NFTs
- SOL’s price fell on the charts due to declining development activity
Solanas [SOL] ecosystem finally saw a revival after many ups and downs over the past year. In fact, a significant portion of this attention to the ecosystem was driven by NFTs on the Solana network.
NFTs on the rise
Over the past two days, the number of unique Solana NFT buy wallets per day has exceeded 12,000. This marks a major milestone, with a ratio >60% higher than unique ETH NFT buy wallets, setting an all-time high for this metric.
In each of the last two days, there have been more than 12,000 unique Solana NFT buy wallets.
This is over 60% higher than unique ETH NFT buy wallets, an all-time high for that ratio. pic.twitter.com/l53UXWWyWt
— NFTstats.eth (@punk9059) December 11, 2023
The increase in the number of unique Solana NFT buy wallets, surpassing those on ETH, indicates growing interest and adoption of NFTs on the Solana blockchain. This increased activity could positively impact the Solana ecosystem by attracting more creators, developers, and users to use the platform for NFT-related activities.
Increased engagement also suggests potential opportunities for decentralized applications (DApps) and projects built on Solana, adding to the overall vibrancy and expansion of Solana’s blockchain.
DeFi activity
Additionally, volume on Solana’s decentralized exchanges (DEX) has continuously reached new highs over the past three days, marking consecutive all-time highs. This notable trend underlines robust and growing trading activity on Solana, reflecting increased user participation and liquidity within the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem on the Solana blockchain.
This is crazy. Each of the last three days would have been an all-time high in Solana DEX volume before this week. pic.twitter.com/FGitAeTnsN
—Patrick Scott | Dynamo DeFi (@Dynamo_Patrick) December 10, 2023
As a result of these factors, the number of daily active addresses on the Solana network also grew. However, the number of transactions on the network decreased.
Source: Artemis
Where is SOL in the charts?
Here it is worth noting that SOL’s price did not experience any positive momentum. At the time of writing, SOL was trading up $68.67 and the price dropped -4.75% in the last 24 hours alone. The volume on which SOL traded also fell enormously during that period.
Read Solana’s [SOL] Price forecast 2024-2025
At the same time, development activity on Solana declined. This meant that the number of GitHub contributions from these developers dropped. New updates and updates that should occur on the Solana network may be affected.
Source: Santiment