Solana Protocol Feature

    Solana Protocol Feature

    Choose a defi protocol from the following list and create a dashboard with the new Flipside layout that can refresh once a day highlighting at least 4 metrics of your choosing that helps show the "health" of the protocol and what is happening on it. Note any noticeable trends or current events for the protocol. Highlight how liquidity is flowing in and out of the protocol and which pools are popular.

    Methodology

    We are looking to see the health of the Orca DEX to do this we will look at the following metrics:

    • daily DEX swaps by token
    • daily DEX user by token
    • Top 10 Orca pools
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    What is Solana?

    Solana is a public blockchain platform with smart contract functionality. Its native cryptocurrency is SOL. Solana offers low fees and fast transaction times. Solana smart contracts are written in Rust rather than solinity. sonal is one of the fast blockchains with the lowest transaction fees.

    What is Orca?

    Orca (ORCA) is a Solana token that governs the Orca decentralized exchange. Orca aims to enable low-fee, near-instant token swaps using an automated market maker (AMM) model. On the exchange, users supply tokens to “liquidity pools” and algorithms set market prices based on supply and demand.

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    Observations

    The top 4 assets that are being swapped on Orca are USDC, WSOL, GST, and GMT. These four assets make up over 80% of the swaps on Orca in total. There was a huge spike in Orca use in May and June of this year. Since then the number of daily swaps have dropped drastically, and is now at the same level that it was in January of this year.

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    Conclusion

    There have been nearly 1,000,000 wallets using Orcas over its lifetime. The top wallets have made between 0.5 Million and 1.5 Million swaps on Orca over their lifetime. There was a huge runup in Orca users from March 2022 to the end of May 2022, and since then the active swappers on the platform have dropped from 150,000 a day to 1,500 a day. The top 4 assets that are being swapped on Orca are USDC, WSOL, GST, and GMT. These four assets make up over 80% of the swaps on Orca in total. There was a huge spike in Orca use in May and June of this year. Since then the number of daily swaps have dropped drastically, and is now at the same level that it was in January of this year.

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