Solana Just Grew 5,349% in 30 Days Per This 1 Key Metric
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There's a point in every nological gold rush when the indicators shift from pointing to "There's something interesting here" to "There's gold buried here. " For blockchains, one of the...
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July 11, 2025
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There's a point in every nological gold rush when the indicators shift from pointing to "There's something interesting here" to "There's gold buried here. " For blockchains, one of the est gauges is how many wallets are willing to actually use a new duct, rather than just hold a coin and hope
During the past few weeks, Solana (SOL 3. 69%) has been quietly revealing a tremendous amount of value on that front, and something remarkable is now happening
Tokenized stocks just staged a stampede onto Solana One of the possible uses of blockchains Solana is to hold and trade tokenized assets stocks
A tokenized stock is nothing more exotic than a crypto token whose metadata confer ownership of a real
Holders can buy fractional slices, trade around the clock, and, on Solana, settle transactions in seconds for fractions of a cent, which are privileges that legacy brokers often don't or can't match
Other chains are looking to be the for parking tokenized stocks and other forms of tokenized assets, but it looks Solana has a large lead in onboarding new users at the moment
During the past 30 days, the number of unique crypto wallets that actively held tokenized stocks on Solana jumped from 788 to 42,940, a staggering 5,349% leap that ves there's a full-blown stampede in gress
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Momentum picked up with gusto when new "mirror tokens" for non-public companies SpaceX, Anthropic, and Epic Games debuted on Solana at the start of July, with centralized exchanges Kraken, XStocksFi, and Gemini announcing similar launches right after
The idea behind mirror tokens is the same as the one behind tokenized stocks, except that their price is calibrated to mirror those of non-liquid s in that are widely expected to go public at some point
Now, in terms of tokenized equities for public companies, there are tokenized versions of all of the Magnificent Seven companies on-chain, as well as many others
For a chain that needs to win in a growth segment to continue seeing its native token gain in value, this is all very bullish for Solana
What the surge could mean for Solana's long-term value Adoption sparks a virtuous cycle
More wallets create deeper liquidity pools, which attract additional asset issuers who list fresh tickers, which in turn give investors more reasons to open wallets and keep their capital on-chain
Solana now hosts 79 different real-world assets (RWAs), and its total on-chain RWA value sits near $47 million
There are only $424 million in stocks tokenized across all chains
That flywheel directly benefits Solana holders in two ways
First, every transaction burns a sr of Solana, nudging the coin's float down over time
Higher stock-trading volumes therefore translate into marginal supply shrinkage of the coins available for public trading
Second, many platforms require users to stake their Solana for fee rebates or to gain the governance rights that would normally be part of a stock, which takes coins out of circulation and boosts staking yields
Could the stock tokenization party fizzle out
Absolutely, and there are competitors that really want that to happen
In particular, Ethereum courts stock-token jects, and it has a larger volume of stablecoins on its chain than Solana does
This means that there's more capital that could flow to newly tokenized offerings
Macro factors matter here too
If a recession hits and equity trading slows, tokenized stock volumes will
Yet those hurdles feel more speed bumps than brick walls
Solana's nical lead in speed and low-cost transactions, its thriving developer community, and its now-demonstrated duct-market fit give it a lane to dominate this corner of cryptofinance
Assuming wallet growth merely decelerates to a 10th of the recent pace, Solana would still add thousands of active stock investors per month, and still surpass the current rates of growth of its peers
That incremental demand for block space and Solana staking could meaningfully support the price during the next several quarters
For long-term investors, the message is simple
The easiest way to ride the tokenized-stock wave is to own the coin where the wave is cresting, which means buying Solana
Alex Carchidi has positions in Ethereum and Solana
The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Ethereum and Solana
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