Solana (SOL) Takes 36% of Tokenized Commodities DEX Volume, Overtaking Robinhood Chain

Solana Captures 36% of Tokenized Commodities Flow

Solana (SOL) has overtaken Robinhood Chain to become the busiest network for tokenized commodities on decentralized exchanges. Fresh analytics data shows the chain now commands 36% of spot trading volume in the category, well clear of Robinhood Chain's 26% — a sharp reversal for a network that held barely 1% three weeks ago. Canton ranks third at 19%, Ethereum follows at 13% and BNB Chain at 4%, while Hypercore sits around 1%; Base, Polygon, Avalanche and Monad show little measurable presence. The broader Solana ecosystem has taken the lead in a market Ethereum had almost entirely owned throughout the previous year. Tokenized commodities are on-chain representations of physical assets such as gold, silver and oil, letting traders gain price exposure without handling the underlying metal or barrel. The standings remain volatile. Tracking shows Ethereum rarely dipped below 80% of daily tokenized commodity trading volume until July; BNB Chain then seized a large slice in August, at times exceeding half of daily turnover, before Robinhood Chain led from late August into mid-September. Solana is only the third network to hold the top spot in roughly ten weeks, and with daily volumes still small, a single new listing could reshuffle the table again. SOL's surge tracks a wave of product launches on the network. Dominion Market brought tokenized silver on-chain through its SILV token; GM Trade rolled out perpetual futures on gold, silver and oil; and the lending protocol Kamino began accepting PAXG, a tokenized gold asset, as collateral. Most of the resulting flow routes through Raydium. The Kamino integration may carry the most long-term weight: giving PAXG holders a collateral use for their tokenized gold on Solana creates a reason to keep it there rather than redeploy it elsewhere — which could sustain decentralized application (dApp) activity on the network even if the volume crown changes hands again.

Solana Foundation Hires Ex-Binance CMO

The commercial push is being staffed in parallel. On September 24, the Solana Foundation announced two senior hires: Rachel Conlan joins as Chief Strategy Officer, and Jamal Raees becomes general manager of payments. Conlan served as global chief marketing officer at Binance, a role she took up in September 2023, and previously held executive positions at OKX, CAA Sports and Havas. In the new role she leads strategy across institutional partnerships, ecosystem growth and go-to-market execution, with a mandate to accelerate adoption among enterprises and financial institutions. Raees comes from Polygon Labs, where he headed the United States payments division, and earlier worked at Bridge and Wyre; he will coordinate with payment companies, enterprises and ecosystem teams to expand Solana's footprint as global payments infrastructure. The foundation's announcement welcoming two new leaders confirms both appointments. The hires arrive as the foundation argues that financial activity on the network is graduating from pilots to production: Solana-based payments, along with the tokenization of treasuries, funds and equities, are moving into live deployment, and the new leadership is meant to harden the payments and enterprise stack accordingly. That institutional thesis builds on earlier tokenization wins on the chain, including Securitize's Solana (SOL) tokenized stock, which jumped 15% after an SEC innovation exemption. Institutional channels are widening in step: ARK Invest recently added 5,589 shares of the 3iQ Solana (SOL) staking ETF, extending the chain's reach into regulated fund wrappers. For the foundation, pairing a growth-focused executive with a payments specialist signals where it sees the next wave of demand: enterprise settlement rather than retail speculation. The technical roadmap backs the same direction. Alpenglow, the next consensus upgrade, aims to cut block finality to roughly 150 milliseconds — meaning settlement could be confirmed almost instantly, a property the foundation says matters for point-of-sale payment scenarios. As of a September 25 check, the Alpenglow consensus upgrade is enabled on testnet, though it has not yet gone live on mainnet, so the finality claim remains unproven in production. Readers tracking the market in real time can follow live spot and futures prices on Bitget.

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Ethereum's $4.7B Asset Lead in Focus

Volume leadership and executive hires point the same way: Solana is staking claims on the tokenized real-world-asset market before it owns much of it. The primary record makes the gap explicit: as of September 25, on-chain data shows Solana hosting $26.8 million in tokenized commodities, just 0.55% of the market, against Ethereum's $4.7 billion, roughly 95% of all assets in the category. BNB Chain, at $87 million, and Arbitrum, at $85.8 million, each hold more than triple Solana's stock. Yet flow is shifting faster than stock: Solana's commodity assets rose 1.09% over the past 30 days while Ethereum's fell 4.72% and BNB Chain's dropped 7.83%. Our read at COINOTAG: the volume crown is durable only if Solana converts trading flow into asset migration from Ethereum's $4.7 billion pool — and momentum, plus fresh executive firepower, is currently trending its way.