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.
A gorgeous skyline
Many traders/merchants have one thing to cherish amid the broader crypto-market’s inconsistent actions.
Think about this – Solana’s Non-fungible Token (NFT) ecosystem simply surpassed a big milestone. As per CryptoSlam, the Solana blockchain surpassed $1 billion in all-time whole 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 connected herein. 
Supply: CryptoSlamIndeed, Solana has established itself as a significant participant inside this aggressive market. The truth is, based on Messari’s newest blog, one particular venture 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. Nicely, due to Sweet Machine V1 (launched in late-August 2021) and V2 (launched in December 2021).
Different NFT minting options resembling LaunchMyNFT and Magic Eden’s Launchpad (V1 and V2) too performed an vital position. Total, 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
Total, “the rise within the variety of distinctive pockets addresses and NFT transactions on Solana each day reveals wholesome utilization exercise for the Metaplex community,” Messari added.
Such datasets sketch a optimistic trajectory for the flagship blockchain community, particularly trying on the progress. For example, in 2021, Solana’s highest weekly commerce volumes hit $160.39 million. Actually, a small proportion of what the file is in the present day.
The ecosystem not too long ago additionally updated the neighborhood in regards to the rising lively addresses on Solana’s dApps. Gaming platform Gameta went on to prime 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 unfavorable occasions, together with repeated network outages, centralization issues and a widespread exploit, have focused Solana wallets.
These have been all main setbacks for SOL traders. The truth is, they might be why SOL’s value didn’t fairly carry out as anticipated. At press time, SOL was buying and selling simply shy of the $48-mark on CoinMarketCap.
