Solana hits 15% of major US exchange trade count, Fidelity report finds

A new Fidelity Digital Assets note says Solana briefly topped the NYSE in weekly trade executions, but warns that scale alone won't guarantee success Solana now handles a slice of trading activity that would have sounded absurd a few years ago. According to a new Fidelity Digital Assets report, the blockchain averaged 15% of the weekly trade count on major US exchanges in 2026. In 2022, that figure was 0.3%. The research note, titled “Solana’s Competitive Advantage in On-Chain Trading,” was published on November 6, 2026, and authored by Max Wadington. Its most eye-catching claim: in late 2026, Solana briefly surpassed the New York Stock Exchange in weekly trade executions. The numbers behind the comparison Fidelity’s headline metric is trade count. Weekly trades on Solana reached approximately 95.9 million in 2026, according to the report. Traditional exchanges, by comparison, averaged about 656.8 million trades per week. That progress reflects an approximately 100-times increase in Solana’s weekly trade counts over the period Fidelity studied. The momentum extends beyond spot trading. Monthly trading volume for tokenized assets on Solana climbed from approximately $0.1 billion in ...