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Solana’s lending markets reached $3.6 billion in total value locked as of December 2025.
According to a <a href="https://blog.redstone.finance/2025/09/29/solana-rwa/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>report by RedStone, the figure represents a 33% year-over-year increase from $2.7 billion in December 2024.
The network maintained 100% uptime for 12 consecutive months while delivering transaction finality in approximately 400 milliseconds.
Solana recorded $35.9 billion in peak daily decentralized exchange volume during the period.
What Happened
Kamino Lend reported $3.5 billion in TVL following its May 2025 upgrade, which introduced a Market Layer and curator-managed Vault Layer.
Jupiter Lend launched in August 2025 and reached $1.65 billion in TVL within months.
The platform offers isolated vaults with rehypothecation capabilities and high loan-to-value ratios.
Drift Protocol’s v3 upgrade combined derivatives trading with integrated lending functions.
The platform achieved sub-400 millisecond execution for most market orders.
Loopscale operates an order-book lending platform with $124.9 million in TVL and $40 million in active loans.
Individual protocol TVLs can sum higher than total network lending TVL because borrowed capital flowing between protocols creates double-counting.
Gauntlet oversees more than $140 million across Kamino and Drift vaults as curator and risk manager.
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Why It Matters
The next wave of growth centers on tokenized real-world assets and institutional capital deployment.
Major issuers have launched or expanded tokenized products on Solana.
These include Securitize, BlackRock‘s BUIDL fund, VanEck’s VBILL, Apollo’s ACRED, Ondo, and Backed Finance.
Keel, an on-chain capital allocator linked to Sky Protocol, outlined a deployment roadmap of up to $2.5 billion.
The funds will flow across lending markets, stablecoin liquidity, and tokenized real-world assets.
RedStone noted these developments reflect increasing institutional participant involvement.
Institutions operate through curated vaults, structured allocations, and tokenized asset products across the Solana ecosystem.
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Source: yellow.com