Solana and the rest of the market
Fifteen EVM chains — Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and Polygon among them — plus HyperCore make up the comparison, counted together as one line. Over the past quarter that group went from $247K a day to 67 times as much, while Solana's own volume rose 108% against the same week a quarter earlier. That rise splits about evenly: the float on Solana grew 42% over the quarter, and each dollar of it changed hands 1.5 times as often as before. Both sides are expanding; the group is expanding faster because it started from almost nothing.
Trading keeps the stock market's hours
Over the past 3 months the median weekday moved $47.8M and the median weekend day $14M — 71% less. Stablecoins over the same days drop 40%. These tokens track an instrument that stops trading on Friday, so two days in seven the chain carries a market that is closed.
Small in dollars, fast in turnover
$463.6M of tokenized equities exist on Solana and 11.7% of that trades every day. That sits between two extremes: stablecoins turn over about 92% of their float a day because they are money in motion, and liquid staking tokens turn over a fraction of a percent because they are parked. The category is still too small to move what a validator earns — the whole of it is a rounding error against the network's fee income. Its interest is positional: it is the rare Solana metric with a denominator outside Solana.
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FAQ
What is a tokenized equity?
A token on a blockchain that tracks a share in a listed company, issued by a firm that holds the underlying stock or an equivalent claim. The count here is wider than single shares: it takes any token representing a stock, an ETF or an index, from the issuers Ondo, Backed, xStocks, PreStocks and Remora. Trading the token onchain is not the same as owning the share directly: what you hold is the issuer's obligation, and the rights attached to it depend entirely on that issuer.
Why does the volume collapse at weekends?
Because the thing being tracked stops trading. The chain runs every day, but the price these tokens follow is set on an exchange that closes on Friday and reopens on Monday, so two days in seven there is nothing new to price against.
Does this affect what I earn from staking?
Not measurably. Every one of these trades pays a Solana fee, and fees are the largest single part of what an operator earns, but the whole category trades a few tens of millions a day against a network that settles far more than that. Its interest is as a signal of where activity chooses to settle, not as revenue.
Where does this data come from?
Two on-chain series, one row per day: spot volume in tokenized equities on Solana and on all other chains the source tracks, and the circulating supply of the category on Solana. The series starts in June 2025, when both sides were first measured together; the turnover and the weekday comparison are computed here.