Solana Overtakes Ethereum In Trillion-Dollar Sector, Is There A New King In Town?
Solana has overtaken Ethereum by way of whole real-world asset (RWA) holders, offering a optimistic signal for the community. However, Ethereum stays forward in whole tokenized worth on these networks.
Solana Ranks Ahead Of Ethereum In RWA Holders
In an X post, Solana pointed to information from RWA.xyz exhibiting that the community had, for the primary time, surpassed Ethereum in whole RWA holders. SOL presently has 157,112 RWA holders whereas Ethereum has 153,592 holders. However, it’s value noting that the Plume network has essentially the most RWA holders (263,132) amongst all networks regardless of boasting a decrease whole RWA worth than Ethereum and Solana.
However, the Plume community has seen an virtually 3% drop in its RWA holders over the past 30 days, whereas Ethereum and SOL have seen a rise of 8% and seven%, respectively. Despite SOL surpassing Ethereum in whole RWA holders, Ethereum nonetheless leads by way of whole RWA worth with $15.4 billion on the community, excluding stablecoins.
Meanwhile, the Solana community has a complete RWA worth of $1.8 billion, additionally behind networks such because the BNB chain and the XRP Ledger (XRPL). Furthermore, Ethereum leads SOL within the variety of tokenization initiatives on the community, with 675 and 345, respectively. The largest initiatives on Ethereum are Tether Gold, Paxos Gold, Syrup USDC, and BlackRock’s BUIDL funds.
Meanwhile, the biggest initiatives on Solana are BlackRock’s BUIDL fund, PRIME, Ondo tokenized funds, and OnRe tokenized Reinsurance. However, it’s value noting that Ethereum and SOL are nonetheless behind Arbitrum within the variety of tokenized initiatives on their networks. Arbitrum presently has an RWA depend of 1,763, though it’s nonetheless behind Ethereum and SOL in whole RWA worth and holders.
SOL Gaining Ground On Stablecoins
Data shared by Visa confirmed that the Solana community gained floor over Ethereum in stablecoin transaction quantity final month. SOL recorded a stablecoin transaction quantity of $660.64 billion, whereas Ethereum noticed a stablecoin transaction volume of $548.82 billion in February.
Solana has achieved this feat regardless of being behind Ethereum in stablecoin asset depend, with Ethereum at 86 and Solana at 33. Ethereum additionally has a bigger stablecoin market cap of $$166.7 billion, whereas SOL has a stablecoin market cap of $15.8 billion. Ethereum additionally has extra stablecoin holders (21.18 million) than Solana (9.7 million).
Ethereum’s stablecoin market cap has grown over 4% within the final 30 days, however its stablecoin switch quantity has dropped 100% to 48,850. SOL, alternatively, has seen its stablecoin holders climb over 9% within the final 30 days, and its switch quantity has surged 85% to $1.85 trillion.
