Solana's app fee share stayed flat at roughly 91-95% over the past year, no steady climb up or down. It was 93.4% in Oct 2025, dipped to a low of 91.0% in Mar 2026, then hit 94.7% in Sep 2026.
Chain fees (network) vs app fees (apps on Solana), DefiLlama data, Oct 2025 - Sep 2026, both charts attached.
Top app fee categories (12mo avg share of category total):
- DEXs 35.2%
- Launchpads 15.0%
- Liquid staking 11.5%
- Trading apps 10.2%
- Derivatives 5.7%
Moves worth noting:
- Launchpads rose from 10.0% to 20.3%
- DEXs dipped near 30% in spring/summer, back to 43.0% by Sep 2026
- Liquid staking fell from 15.0% to 5.6%
- Derivatives fell from 10.4% to 3.1%
Category shares are approximate: the underlying rows overlap, so category sums run 9-25% above the chain-level app-fee total.
On the 85% claim floating around: that Blockworks chart tracks revenue, not fees, with Solana's own share near 15-20% recently vs DefiLlama's chain-fee share of roughly 5-9%. Different definitions, but same direction, apps take the large majority.
Data as of 2026-10-12.