Solana Just Celebrated Its Fifth Birthday, and a Recent Study Shows Highly Exaggerated USDT Volatility

Solana, the second-largest blockchain in the industry, just celebrated its fifth birthday. Its genesis block was mined on March 16, 2020.

Solana, the second-largest blockchain in the industry, just celebrated its fifth birthday on March 16, 2025. Its genesis block was mined on March 16, 2020.

In honor of this milestone, Web3 infrastructure firm Mercuryo decided to conduct a study on it. According to Mercuryo’s findings, USDT volatility on Solana’s transport layer is currently at an “extreme” level.

“Solana captivates the interest of crypto traders across the globe. As Solana celebrates its fifth birthday, our transaction data on Tether tokens on the Solana transport layer suggests an unparalleled level of trading activity amid an explosion of interest in trading opportunities on Solana that we’ve seen over the past 12 months,” claimed Greg Waisman, Co-founder and COO at Mercuryo.

Solana’s USDT volatility has already spiked five times in 2025 alone. The network’s daily USDT trade volumes fluctuated dramatically in the past two months.

This consisted of three spikes and two drops, both of which were significantly smaller than the spikes. Both drops were in the 60%- 70% range, while the increases ranged between 100% and a whopping 137%.

More specifically, Solana saw a 100% increase in USDT trading on January 13. A week later, this activity dropped by 63% and again surged by 129% on January 27. This level of unprecedented capital movements is often rare for any blockchain network.

Mercuryo claims that this volatility is caused by several factors, but the explosion of Solana meme coins is particularly important. Thanks to major meme coin launchpads like Pump.fun, Solana trade volumes have spiked in recent months, even surpassing Ethereum on a few occasions. This rising interest helps fuel intense activity and these wild swings.

Over the past five years, its network has processed more than 408 billion transactions and nearly $1 trillion worth of value on decentralized exchanges. While Solana has shown gradual growth since 2023, the volatility of capital inflow has been chaotic, to say the least.

Ultimately, this enhanced level of volatility shows that Solana has a lot of interest among crypto traders. The network has grown remarkably over the last five years, and it’s already poised to make major advancements in the near future.