- The RWA tokenization of Solana rises 140 percent YTD compared to Ethereum’s 3.6 percent.
- On DeFi, Ondo funds and One funds have total tokenized assets worth 277M on the Solana blockchain.
- Solana processes over 162M daily transactions with $53B staked.
The tokenization of real-world assets has proliferated in 2025, with Solana catching up on Ethereum faster than ever before, closing the market share difference between the two blockchains. The combined value of RWAs on Solana went over $418 million, according to a detailed Messari report, which represents an impressive 140 percent growth on a year-on-year basis.
Source: Messari
With the current market size and average growth of over 60 percent as per 2025, the RWA market is growing. At the current situation, Solana holds the fourth position in the field of the RWA tokenization sector with a market share of 3.9 percent. This places it in the fourth position overall. Its low transaction speed, sub-zero transaction fees, and its welcoming developer community have given rise to a wide variety of tokenized securities, everything from the most dull U.S. Treasuries up to institutional funds.
Momentum Beyond Memecoins: RWAs Drive Institutional Demand
Another important reason that drives the rise of Solana is that its RWA increased significantly, especially as the traditional financial asset tokenization begins to take off. Ondo Finance and ONe combined are $277 million of the Solana RWA market, with Ondo Finance U.S. Dollar Yield Fund, partnering with ONe institutional fund, further illustrating the new era of institutional participation on the network. A 24-hour cross-chain trade volume of 2.7 million was recently recorded by the Ondo fund, adding to Solana’s income of 3.9 million in the past 30 days, which is lower than Ethereum’s 15.9 million for the same period.
The scalability of Solana, with its innovations like Firedancer and ZK Compression, keeps it going strong. The technical improvements make it more attractive to both enterprise and retail users, something that is supplemented by its active decentralized exchange (DEX) environment and growing community of developers.
Solana’s Layer-1 Surge: Developer Influx and Ecosystem Expansion
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Besides RWA growth, Solana is also experiencing active address growth, the launch of tokens, and DEX volume growth as well. Its decentralized finance ecosystem has grown fast, where trading fees make a significantly larger part of the total application fees than Ethereum, with much of the growth being driven by memecoin and speculative trading behavior. Nevertheless, the actual drive is that Solana is attracting a wider selection of use cases, such as liquid staking or institutional asset tokenization.
The resilience of Solana is facilitated with the help of network parameters: over 162 million transactional activities are conducted daily, and over 53 billion Sol are staked, which makes the network safer and governed. Furthermore, over a billion USDC were minted recently on Solana and can serve as a substantial reserve of liquidity in the DeFi and RWA environment.
Although Solana has been accused of being too centralized and dealing with some regulatory compliance challenges that surround tokenized real-world assets, its fast growth and dynamic ecosystem portend its ascendancy as a major blockchain player alternative to the Ethereum-dominated crypto world.
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