The market’s ninth largest cryptocurrency (SOL) has seen all of it right here. From heading north and hitting new ATHs to diving south by succumbing to community outages.
Nonetheless, one side of SOL’s dominance continues to see bullish strides inside completely different playgrounds/battlegrounds.
An attractive skyline
Many buyers/merchants have one thing to cherish amid the broader crypto-market’s inconsistent actions.
Contemplate this – Solana’s Non-fungible Token (NFT) ecosystem simply surpassed a major milestone. As per CryptoSlam, the Solana blockchain surpassed $1 billion in all-time complete quantity this month for the primary time.
On the time of writing, gross sales quantity stood at round $1.2 billion, with the identical highlighted by the graph hooked up herein. 
Supply: CryptoSlamIndeed, Solana has established itself as a significant participant inside this aggressive market. The truth is, in line with Messari’s newest weblog, one particular mission helped the flagship protocol’s ascent to the aforementioned milestone.
Launched in 2021, Metaplex grew to become the primary protocol and permissionless infrastructure layer for NFTs on Solana. Since its launch, the Metaplex on-chain minting program has powered over 16 million out of the 18 million NFTs minted on Solana. Properly, because of Sweet Machine V1 (launched in late-August 2021) and V2 (launched in December 2021).
Different NFT minting options similar to LaunchMyNFT and Magic Eden’s Launchpad (V1 and V2) too performed an vital function. General, the variety of NFTs minted grew by 46% QoQ in Q2 2022.
Supply: Messari
As well as, Metaplex witnessed a each day common of just about 76,000 house owners of Metaplex-enabled NFTs who purchased or offered an NFT every day. This marked a 21% uptick from the earlier quarter. Moreover, the common variety of each day transactions grew 18% QoQ.
Supply: Messari
General, “the rise within the variety of distinctive pockets addresses and NFT transactions on Solana each day exhibits wholesome utilization exercise for the Metaplex community,” Messari added.
Such datasets sketch a optimistic trajectory for the flagship blockchain community, particularly wanting on the progress. For example, in 2021, Solana’s highest weekly commerce volumes hit $160.39 million. Definitely, a small share of what the file is at present.
The ecosystem lately additionally updated the group in regards to the rising lively addresses on Solana’s dApps. Gaming platform Gameta went on to high these charts with over 50.11k customers, as mentioned in a earlier article.
No indicators of fading?
Solana did narrate bullish situations on the mentioned inexperienced ‘NFT’ card. Nonetheless, indicators of uncertainty are nonetheless there. Of late, a flurry of adverse occasions, together with repeated community outages, centralization considerations and a widespread exploit, have focused Solana wallets.
These had been all main setbacks for SOL buyers. The truth is, they might be why SOL’s worth didn’t fairly carry out as anticipated. At press time, SOL was buying and selling simply shy of the $48-mark on CoinMarketCap.
