Solana is the most used chain by retail by far.
That’s why it’s different from BTC, ETH, or L1s driven by institutional flows.
But here’s the problem: retail doesn’t just buy and hold SOL. They use it. They transact.
Which means the real value of Solana is not just SOL price it’s the flow of transactions happening every day.
And every single one of those transactions - memecoins, NFTs, games, DEX trades, launches is getting extracted:
Hidden fees
MEV
Layered middlemen
House rake
Predatory token models
It’s mass value leakage.
→ Retail brings in $
→ Retail drives onchain volume
→ Middlemen platforms extract the majority of that value
→ Very little flows back into SOL value or SOL holders
And the worst part: this extraction is compounding.
Look at Pump fun: $700M+ in fees extracted from retail now a $4B token on Solana rails.
None of that grows SOL value.
The more successful Solana becomes in retail adoption, the more extraction accelerates unless the model changes.
This is exactly what we’re building with @GlydeGG
Protocol level infrastructure where flow is monetized by users, not extracted from them.
Where locked TVL indexes the value back to the chain not away from it.
Because if we don’t change this Solana can win the UX war and still bleed value to platforms sitting on top of it.