One name, most of the money
The top three took 54.7% of app revenue between them over the past year. The apps named here are the largest of the past year and the newcomers that have broken in more recently; the apps that led in earlier years sit inside the remainder band, so this share describes the market as it stands rather than a trend. The pot itself shrank 55.7% over that year, and the leader shrank with it: Pump's own revenue fell 40.8%. Its share rose because the rest fell faster — the per-application table below carries the year, the share and the change for each.
Three different things called Solana revenue
This number is none of what a staker receives. Apps keep what is on this chart. The network separately collects transaction fees and tips, which is what the transaction activity and validator revenue charts track, and only that second pot pays operators and their delegators. An app earning a record day adds to your rewards only through the fees its users pay to the chain, which is a much smaller number than the one above.
Where staking income actually comes from
Stake.Cake charges 0% fees on both staking and MEV rewards.
FAQ
Is this what users pay to use Solana apps?
No — the chart counts what the applications keep. A swap fee is split at the moment of the trade: the larger part pays the liquidity providers whose deposited tokens the trade drew on, and only the remainder goes to the protocol that executed it. That remainder is what is charted here. The measure that counts the whole fee, before the split, is application fees, and it runs higher.
Does a record day for an app raise my staking rewards?
Barely, and only indirectly. Your rewards come from issuance and from the fees and tips the network collects, not from what an application keeps. Heavy app usage does push transaction fees up, and those do reach validators, but the amounts are far smaller than the revenue on this chart.
Why is one application so far ahead?
Because Solana app revenue is dominated by token launch and trading venues, where fees scale directly with speculative volume. That also makes the ranking unstable over years even while it looks fixed within one. Raydium led in 2022 and does not now.
What is in "Other apps"?
Everything that is not named, added into one band. The named set is the ten largest by revenue over the past year plus any app that has entered the top ten over the past quarter or month, reviewed quarterly. An app that has been named keeps its column after it slips out, so its history stays on the chart. It is a remainder, not an application: the named columns plus this band always sum to the daily total, so a new app that has not been named yet still counts in the figures above.