Solana Tops 2025 Blockchain Mindshare Again as Lead Narrows
CoinGecko's web-traffic study signals a reallocation of crypto attention toward emerging ecosystems alongside memecoin themes.
Overview
- Solana led ecosystem-focused interest with 26.79% in 2025, followed by Base at 13.94% and Ethereum at 13.43%.
- Its share fell about 12 percentage points from 2024, a slide that coincided with Solana dropping out of the year's top five narratives as AI agents and Made in USA gained ground.
- Sui recorded the largest rise in mindshare, up 6.9 points to 11.77%, while BNB Chain climbed 4.9 points to 9.05% helped by Binance Alpha's May launch.
- Memecoins remained the most popular overarching narrative, drawing roughly 25.02% of investor interest in 2025.
- New top‑10 entrants included XRP Ledger, Bittensor, and Hyperliquid, based on CoinGecko's non-botted global traffic from Jan 1 to Dec 14 across 62 ecosystems, with the top 20 accounting for 95.60% of interest.