Lily Liu: Solana is becoming the infrastructure of internet finance and will continue to grow rapidly in the next five years

Solana Foundation President Lily Liu (@solanafndn) spoke at the 2025 Shanghai International Blockchain Week and the 11th Global Blockchain Summit, stating that Solana's vision is to build a high-speed blockchain network for the global financial system and become the infrastructure for internet finance. Lily noted that the Solana ecosystem has achieved rapid growth across all three layers: network, application, and asset layers. Currently, daily transaction volume exceeds two to three times the combined total of all other public chains, and on-chain application revenue leads the industry. In 2024, Solana's application revenue reached $3.3 billion, with $8.9 billion in funding raised, attracting over 7,500 new developers and exceeding 2,000 applications. She revealed that the Solana mainnet has been online for five years, with a stable transaction throughput exceeding 1,000 (excluding voting), transaction fees of only $0.0005, and performance comparable to Visa and Nasdaq. Going forward, Solana will continue to promote the "tokenization of everything, marketization of everything," enabling the circulation of traditional and on-chain assets within a unified architecture. Lily stated that Solana will continue to strengthen its support for the Chinese-speaking ecosystem, focusing on payment, Decentralized Payments (DPIN), and AI. She emphasized, "If Bitcoin is digital gold, Solana is the internet's native financial infrastructure."