Solana reaches 7,699 monthly active programs in September as wallet growth surges

Solana’s monthly active programs hit 7,699 in September, a figure that quietly tells a bigger story about the network’s expanding footprint. Data from Solscan shows that funded wallets on Solana surged to 16.10 million in September, representing a 38.5% increase from the prior month. Daily active addresses for stablecoins reached 888,000, a 269% jump year-over-year. What counts as an active program The 7,699 figure represents programs that recorded at least one successful interaction during September. Think of Solana programs as the network’s version of smart contracts: pieces of on-chain code that do things when users poke them. Out of approximately 42,470 to 42,633 total programs deployed on the network, only 3,118 carried an “active” label based on sustained user interaction. The breakdown by category reveals where the real action is happening. Arbitrage and sandwich bots led the pack with 877 programs. DeFi applications came in at 315, followed by cross-chain bridges at 288, gaming and casino projects at 222, and swap protocols at 168. Among the most active individual programs over the trailing 30 days were Pump.fun AMM and Jupiter Aggregator v6. Jupiter has long been Solana’s ...