SOL Weekly Data Report — August 10–16, 2026

2026-08-18 · Weekly Data Report · SolDataLab Research Desk

Every figure below is a real, machine-fetched value: prices from DefiLlama's daily price series, volumes and fees from DefiLlama's overview endpoints, stablecoins from DefiLlama's stablecoin charts, all pulled on September 14, 2026. This is the baseline week of the series — my daily window begins August 10, so there are no week-over-week figures here, and none are estimated. Where a metric has no free, reliable source, it is omitted entirely. What remains is eight verified numbers that every later week on this site is measured against.

Market snapshot

A 94-cent week. The closes ran $76.21, $75.92, $76.22, $75.56, $76.20, $75.34, $75.28 — the narrowest range of the series, in a week when Bitcoin fell 2.8% and Ethereum 1.5%. SOL's −1.2% is the least-bad print of the complex: +1.6pp versus BTC, +0.2pp versus ETH. Relative strength in a down week is the one directional signal this tape offers, and it would become a trend.

Daily closes

DeFi

The pre-breakout baseline. $10.88B of weekly DEX volume and $4.82B of TVL — both the lowest prints of the five-week series, both stable through the flat tape. Within two weeks, DEX volume would run $19.8B (+81.5% from this base) and TVL $5.92B (+22.8%), with no down week between. When later reports reference 'the pre-breakout base,' these are the numbers it means.

Stablecoins

The starting mix before five weeks of rotation: USDT at $2.90B — its highest print of the series — against USDC at $6.70B, with the total at $15.76B. The weeks that followed would move the total only modestly ($16.46B by mid-September) while rotating the composition hard: USDT down to $2.54B, USDC up to $7.30B. Baselines are where trends become visible in hindsight, and this is the mix the rotation started from.

Fees

The series floor: $63.45M in weekly network fees, with Jito tips at $1.53M. The path from here — $83.1M, $98.8M, $84.4M, $108.3M across the following four weeks — is a 71% climb from this floor to the series high, and the floor itself runs at a $3.3B annualized pace. Even the quietest week in the dataset pays real bills.

What this report deliberately omits

Staking-rate history, weekly non-vote transaction counts, weekly perp volumes, and priority-fee averages are not in this report because no free, reliable source serves them as historical weekly series. The perps overview endpoint was down at fetch time; if it recovers, perp volume returns in a future edition. I would rather publish eight verified numbers than twenty estimated ones — and as the baseline week, this report is the template for that discipline.

The baseline's role in the series

A one-row table, stated without apology: this is the week the series computes from. The next four rows — $93.88, $105.59, $103.17, $101.75 closes; DEX from $10.9B to $19.8B; fees from $63.5M to $108.3M — all measure their changes against what this week established. The most useful thing a baseline can be is honest: no estimates, no backfilled WoW, no reconstructed history. Levels only, all verifiable.

Risk watch

• Range risk: a break below $75.28 (the Sunday close) would put the mid-$70s base in question
• Compression: 94 cents of range usually precedes expansion — direction unknown from this data alone
• USDT watch: the five-week-high print ($2.90B) is the level the coming rotation would erode from
• Fee floor: $63.5M is the level later weeks either defend (a base) or collapse through (a downtrend)

Three comparisons this baseline enables

A baseline's value is not in its own week - a 94-cent range and series-floor activity make that clear enough - but in the comparisons it later makes possible. Three of them, each of which a later report on this site relies on and each of which computes against this week's verified levels.

First, the volume claim. When later reports say DEX volume spiked 81.5% to $19.8B, the denominator is this week's $10.88B - machine-fetched, stored, and re-checkable. Without a fixed baseline, 'spiked' is an adjective; with one, it is arithmetic. The same holds for the $16.5-19.8B post-breakout band, whose floor is only 'roughly 50% above base' because the base is $10.9B.

Second, the fee claim. The series' climb from $63.45M to a $108.3M high - a 71% rise across five weeks - starts at this week's floor, which also establishes the chain's baseline economics: a $3.3B annualized pace in the quietest week of the dataset. Fee floors measure what a chain is; fee peaks measure what it does when excited. This week is where the floor is defined.

Third, the rotation claim. USDT's five-week-high print of $2.90B is the exact level the subsequent rotation eroded from - down to $2.54B by mid-September - while USDC's $6.70B start is the level it rotated to $7.30B from. The baseline does not just date the mix; it fixes the endpoints that make the rotation quantifiable. What this week cannot do is tell direction - that took the weeks after - and the report says so rather than guessing.

Verification paths for every number in this report

A baseline earns trust by being checkable, so here is the check, metric by metric - what the value is, where it comes from, and how a reader with a browser can reproduce it. This is the same provenance that powers the site's fetch pipeline, written out for the one week where every number is a level.

• Daily closes ($76.21 through $75.28): DefiLlama's daily price series for Solana - the once-daily samples this site's whole WoW arithmetic builds on.
• DEX volume $10.9B: DefiLlama's Solana DEX volume series, summed Monday 00:00 to Sunday 23:59 UTC.
• TVL $4.82B: DefiLlama's chain TVL page for Solana, read at the Sunday close.
• Fees $63.5M and Jito tips $1.53M: DefiLlama's fee series for Solana, same weekly window.
• Stablecoins ($15.76B total; USDT $2.90B, USDC $6.70B): DefiLlama's stablecoin charts for Solana, path-style series, read at the Sunday close.

Two conventions make the reproduction exact rather than approximate. First, the weekly window is Monday through Sunday UTC, not a rolling seven days - a rolling figure will differ slightly from the weekly sums here, which is the first FAQ's answer stated in advance. Second, stablecoin readings are taken at the week's final close, so intraweek swings do not enter the baseline. A reader who follows both conventions should land on these numbers exactly; a reader who does not will land near them, which is why the conventions are stated rather than assumed.

The residual gaps are equally explicit: staking-rate history, weekly non-vote transaction counts, and perp volumes have no reproduction path because no free reliable source serves them - which is why they are absent rather than approximated. A baseline with stated verification paths and stated gaps is the strongest form a first row can take.

Sources

Source: DefiLlama — chain TVLDefiLlama — DEX volumesDefiLlama — feesDefiLlama — stablecoinsCoinMarketCap — Solana

Tags: DeFiStablecoinNetwork