Solana-based apps notched record fees and revenue activity in the last 24 hours amid an apparent return of memecoin mania.
According to a Nov. 18 X post from decentralized finance commentator Patrick Scott, who cited DefiLlama data, five out of the top ten protocols by fees in the last 24 hours were on Solana.
Solana-based automatic market maker Raydium notched a record $11.31 million in fees on Nov. 17, while the liquid staking protocol Jito saw its third-highest day of fees at $9.87 million on the same day, per DefiLlama data.
Meanwhile, the memecoin launchpad pump.fun saw its seventh-highest day of earnings, netting $1.65 million in fees.
Photon, a Telegram trading bot for Solana memecoins, came in as the seventh highest earning product, generating its fifth highest day of fees on record at $2.36 million.
The record fees for several Solana protocols come amid a frenzy of speculation on memecoins and a major price move for the native Solana token SOL
$240.30 itself, which pushed to $242 — its highest since November 2021.
A memecoin based on a squirrel called Peanut (PNUT) rallied over 2700% in the last fortnight to reach a peak value of $2.4 billion on Nov. 14, as Elon Musk shilled the token several times on X alongside the launch of the Department of Government Efficiency.
The largest Solana memecoin Dogwifhat WIF$3.60 was listed on the United States crypto exchange Coinbase on Nov. 15, sending it briefly to a new six-month high of $4.19 on the same day.
The Department of Government Efficiency is a new United States government agency under President-elect Donald Trump that bears the same abbreviated name as the ticker of the memecoin Dogecoin (DOGE), which also saw a significant rally over the last seven days — climbing more than 140% in the last two weeks.
Solana pushes above $240 despite supply inflation
SOL is currently trading at $234, a mere 8.5% move away from reclaiming its all-time high price of $259.
Notably, Solana is trading at a market capitalization of $112 billion, 44% higher than its $77 billion market cap at its previous all-time high on Nov. 6, 2021.
The increase in market cap comes from overall growth in the number of Solana tokens being issued as a part of its inflation schedule, which rewards stakers for their efforts with newly minted SOL tokens.
At the time of publication, Solana’s inflation rate is running at 4.9% and decreases at a rate of 15% per year, per SolanaCompass data.
