Top Solana projects to watch in 2025
Solana is a layer 1 that offers high throughput and low fees for transactions.
Solana is known for its popularity among retail investors and traders, especially through memecoins.
In 2025, many Solana ecosystem projects are growing to support the increased retail and trading interest, especially the growth of DEXs like Jupiter, Meteora, and Raydium. Solana has also become the blockchain of choice for memecoin launches, including the TRUMP and PENGU memecoin.
The Solana ecosystem started 2025 on a high note and hit all-time highs on the back of the launch of President Trump's TRUMP memecoin. Despite the memecoin hype seemingly being dead, Solana easily retains its position as one of the hottest L1 blockchains just behind Ethereum.
Most importantly, Solana is the blockchain of choice for many NFT collections, including Pudgy Penguins, Azuki, and more to launch their own memecoins. We had another milestone late in 2024 with the Solana wallet application, Phantom, achieving second place in Apple's US App Store utility category. These achievements highlight the growth and popularity of Solana as a retail investor-focused blockchain, aided by Solana's low transaction fees and faster processing speed relative to many other smart contract blockchains. According to the network explorer, the Solana network processes at least 100 million transactions daily from an average of 500,000 active wallets and tons of decentralized applications and smart contract tokens.
Solana celebrates its fifth anniversary this year, with the long-awaited "Firedancer" performance upgrade expected to arrive later this year. Join us as we take you through the top projects to look out for in the year 2025.$SOL