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Solana vs. Ethereum: Assessing the Impact of DEX Volume on SOL and ETH
- Solana has surpassed Ethereum in terms of DEX volumes.
- The price performance of SOL and ETH tokens has been positive over the past 24 hours.
Solana [SOL] And Ethereum [ETH] have been one of the leading cryptocurrency networks in the space.
Even though Ethereum has managed to maintain its dominance in various fields for the most part, recent developments suggest that Solana could soon catch up with Ethereum.
Solana is promising
Data from DefiLlama showed that Solana was ahead of Ethereum in terms of daily DEX trading volume. Solana took a significant lead, processing $1.148 billion compared to Ethereum’s $745 million.
This marks a shift in dominance within the DEX landscape and could signal a growing preference for Solana’s faster transaction speeds and lower fees.
It’s worth noting that Ethereum remains the leader in overall DeFi total value locked (TVL), but Solana’s strong performance in DEX volume could help propel the protocol to new highs.
Source: Artemis
Even though Solana’s TVL lagged far behind Ethereum, Solana outperformed Ethereum in terms of overall activity.
In terms of daily active addresses, the total number of addresses on Solana has increased to 1.4 million while the number of daily active addresses on the Ethereum network was 644,000 at the time of writing.
In terms of daily transactions, Solana has shown significant dominance. At the time of writing, Solana had 42.9 million transactions on its network. While on Ethereum, this figure was around 1.1 million.
Source: Artemis
Let’s look at the finer details
Even though Solana managed to surpass Ethereum in terms of activity, it is important to note that Layer 2s were not taken into account when calculating activity.
L2s like Arbitration [ARB] And Optimism [OP] act as scaling solutions for Ethereum, processing transactions off the mainnet but still leveraging Ethereum’s security.
Activity on these L2s translates into interest in the Ethereum ecosystem as a whole.
However, Solana’s impressive numbers raise questions about its long-term sustainability.
The high trading volume could be partly due to speculative activity or trading of meme coins, which may not translate into long-term value creation.
It is crucial to see whether this activity translates into the creation of solid DeFi applications and the attraction of established projects.
Additionally, Solana’s architecture offers faster speeds and lower fees, but it has been criticized in the past regarding network congestion and outages.
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If outages continue to occur on the Solana network, it could have a significant impact on sentiment around the Solana network and could drive some users away from the protocol.
At press time, both SOL and ETH tokens had benefited from the recent bullish sentiment in the cryptocurrency markets and were up 6.6% and 3.4% respectively over the past 24 hours.
Source: Santiment