The Solana project and the overall cryptocurrency market had a rough week, with intensifying worries about U.S. trade policy and a fresh onslaught of liquidations.
Solana’s ecosystem appears to have a few bright spots, as certain activities—namely, those related to DeFi and NFTs—seem to have continued apace and even intensified during the downturn.
A sharp decline hit Solana, with the project’s assets dropping to as low as $204.62 at one point and even dipping the slightest into the $184 range.
Solana is down around 16% from last week and its total market capitalization now lies at $99.71 billion.
Solana’s total value locked, a critical measurement of DeFi activity, tumbled to $10.45 billion, while active daily users fell to 5.2 million.
Solana’s decentralized exchange trading volume has fallen flat, going down 34%, on the heels of a more extensive decline in the crypto sector.
Liquidations worth a staggering $2 billion affected Solana as the price plunged in the wake of so many forced sales.
Despite the market being so turbulent, Coinbase declared its intentions to launch futures trading on Solana.
Solana’s NFT sector captured 50% of total NFT user activity, whereas, the DeFi sector now has 9.5% of its total TVL locked in Solana.
In the Solana ecosystem, certain projects like Cropper and Sanctum made gains, indicating that some DeFi protocols still had very strong and positive upward price movements.