Solana Leads As Most Popular Blockchain Ecosystem For Second Consecutive Year – Report
Solana (SOL) has emerged as the most well-liked blockchain ecosystem of 2025, securing its crown for the second consecutive 12 months regardless of a big lower in chain-specific international curiosity in comparison with the earlier 12 months.
Solana Takes The Popularity Crown
On Monday, Solana was named the main blockchain ecosystem by reputation in 2025 by crypto information aggregator CoinGecko. The research examined curiosity in blockchain ecosystems based mostly on CoinGecko’s non-botted international net visitors from January 1 to December 14, 2025, solely together with ecosystems with actively listed cash and a non-zero proportion share of visitors.
As a end result, a complete of 62 blockchain ecosystems had been included within the research. Out of the 62 blockchain ecosystems studied, the 20 hottest represented a majority of 95.60% of world curiosity in chain-specific narratives.
According to the report, the Solana ecosystem captured 26.79% of the worldwide curiosity in chain-specific narratives this 12 months, retaining its title as the most well-liked blockchain ecosystem for a second consecutive 12 months.
The Base ecosystem adopted in second place, accounting for 13.94% of world investor curiosity in chain-specific narratives this 12 months, led by constructive developments and partnerships. However, its mindshare skilled a 2.9% lower from the 16.81% recorded in 2024.
Similar to Solana and Base, the Ethereum ecosystem additionally retained its place from the 2024 record, rating because the third hottest ecosystem with 13.43% of world curiosity. Meanwhile, Sui and BNB Chain moved up within the record, rating 4th and fifth after greater than doubling their mindshare in 2025.
Per the research, the Sui ecosystem recorded the biggest mindshare progress, with a 6.9% year-over-year (YoY) improve to succeed in 11.77% of the full international curiosity in chain-specific narratives.
The BNB Chain ecosystem noticed a 4.9% surge YoY to seize 9.05% in mindshare, fueled by the launch of Binance Alpha in May, which increased BNB Chain’s on-chain buying and selling volumes, the report famous.
Notably, XRP Ledger, Bittensor & Hyperliquid lead new entrants into the highest rankings, securing a spot within the high 10 this 12 months.
SOL Memecoins Out Of Leading Narratives
Despite main the recognition rankings, CoinGecko highlighted that the Solana ecosystem’s mindshare had considerably decreased from the 38.79% it had dominated in 2024.
According to the research, the ecosystem dropped by 12% this 12 months, reflecting the blockchain’s “struggles to develop past its shut affiliation with meme coin hypothesis, in addition to Solana’s range-bound worth regardless of wider institutional adoption marked by the US ETFs launch.”
This resulted within the Solana ecosystem dropping out of the highest main narratives record this 12 months. In a Friday analysis, CoinGecko reported that memecoin emerged as the most well-liked crypto narrative in 2025 with a mixed 25.02% of world investor curiosity throughout the primary meme coin class and 35 meme coin traits.
This represented a 5.65% decline from the 30.67% market share that the memecoin narrative held in 2024, suggesting that “the mania for purely speculative crypto could also be subsiding.”
The Solana ecosystem misplaced its spot within the high 5 hottest crypto narratives, the place it had ranked for the earlier two years, after being overtaken by AI brokers and the Made in USA narratives. Meanwhile, the Solana memecoin sector additionally dropped out of the highest 5 narratives after a 3.08% decline in international investor curiosity from 2024.
Nonetheless, “it stays to be seen whether or not the Solana narrative will be capable to trip on new catalysts subsequent 12 months, as momentum from its comeback story runs out,” CoinGecko added.
As of this writing, SOL is buying and selling at $126, a 2.61% decline within the each day timeframe.
