Solana Meme Coins Are Eyeing a Comeback as Trading Volumes Surge

After months of decline, Solana meme coins are regaining bullish momentum. Daily trade volumes are increasing dramatically, and most of the leading tokens are posting notable price gains.

The increasing network activity is also helping Solana to recover after a 12-month low. Most recently, pump-and-dump schemes and tariff chaos rocked the meme coin sector, but speculative assets are regaining momentum as macroeconomic fears start to cool down.

Are Solana Meme Coins On the Rise Again？

Solana meme coins have been a popular sector of the crypto ecosystem, but a few controversies have taken bites out of the market in recent months.

In addition to pump-and-dumps and the Argentinian LIBRA scandal damaging these assets reputations, tariff-related chaos helped draw investors away from these meme assets. Despite this, however, volume is picking back up:

“Meme trading platform Axioms daily trading volume exceeded $100 million for the first time on April 14, accounting for about 50% of the market share of Solana Meme trading platform. The number of trading users reached 26,800, a record high,” claimed Colin Wu.

Axiom may represent half of the trading for these assets, but it isn‘t the only site with heightened volumes. Pump.fun recently launched Pumpswap, a new decentralized exchange that quickly captured 14% of Solana’s DEX market.

Trading volumes are spiking on PumpSwap, with daily trading volume surging by 50% on Tuesday, April 15.

PumpSwap Trading Volume. Source: DeFiLlama

Data from DefiLlama shows that DEX trading on Solana is starting to recover after a massive drop in March. In other words, Solana meme coins‘ growth isn’t isolated to either of these platforms either.

These stats have a long way to go before they recover their all-time high from January, but these signs of regrowth are still very promising.

Additionally, individual Solana meme coins are making huge strides in price performance. In the last week, eight of the ten largest assets in this category posted double-digit gains.

One of the two losers this week was TRUMP, which has been adversely impacted by tariff chaos and the latest token unlock. Nonetheless, it managed to achieve a 4.5% price jump. Most of the top ten had gains of over 20% during this period.

Solana Meme Coins Post Big Gains. Source: CoinGecko

This increased network activity is also reflected in Solanas price. Last week, it began recovering from a 12-month low and has since rocketed up with 20% price gains.

For now, it seems like Solana meme coins are eyeing a real comeback, at least for the short term. However, another macroeconomic shock could see these risk assets reacting more severely than the wider market.