In 2025, Solana processed roughly 6× more transactions than BNB Chain, according to Nansen not in a single spike, but through relentless, everyday usage.
This wasn’t driven by one viral app or a short-lived incentive wave. It was flow. Payments, DeFi actions, NFTs, bots, humans activity stacking on activity until volume stopped being a headline and started being background noise. That’s usually what real adoption looks like: boring, constant, hard to fake.
What makes this stat interesting isn’t dominance it’s intent. Transactions reflect behavior, not belief. They show where users actually choose to operate when fees, speed, and experience matter more than discourse. Chains don’t win cycles by being talked about. They win by being used.
So the question isn’t whether $SOL (-0,69%) “outperformed” this year.
It’s whether we’re measuring networks by price narratives… or by where the world is quietly transacting at scale right now?
What do you think really defines leadership in crypto today?
