Compare Hydration and Solana on TVL, fees, revenue and activity to understand how these projects stack up.
$53.1M
Hydration is a modular Layer-1 blockchain focused on scaling on-chain liquidity for DeFi protocols. It combines high-throughput consensus with integrated liquidity layers, allowing apps to access deep cross-market liquidity pools with minimal slippage. Its architecture supports both native assets and bridged tokens for unified, capital-efficient trading and lending.
Solana combines Proof‑of‑History, Turbine block propagation and Gulf Stream forwarding to achieve throughput exceeding 50 000 TPS with 400 ms block times. The 2024 Firedancer client written in C++ reduced validator CPU requirements and added parallel pipeline execution. Solana Pay and the Saga phone SDK illustrate the project’s push toward consumer‑grade web3 applications.