Solana’s monthly active programs top 8,400 in September, per onchain data

Solana just had a busy month on the developer side. Data shared on X shows the network’s monthly unique active programs climbed past 8,400 in September, a figure described as a new record. Programs are Solana’s version of smart contracts: the code behind every swap, bridge, bot and game on the chain. The numbers behind the build-out Funded wallets on Solana rose 38.5% month-over-month to 16.1 million. A funded wallet holds a balance, which separates it from the abandoned addresses that pad most user counts. Daily active stablecoin addresses reached 888,000, a 269% increase year-over-year. Monthly app revenue on Solana reached $180 million in September, a nine-month high. Daily revenue peaked at $7.935 million on September 12. That $180 million represented 32% of total blockchain app revenue for the month. Who is actually using all those programs The largest single category was arbitrage and sandwich bots, with 877 active programs. Behind the bots came DeFi applications at 315 programs, bridges at 288, gaming and casino programs at 222, and swap protocols at 168. Standout names included the Pump.fun AMM and Jupiter Aggregator v6. Not every dashboard counts the same way The headline ...