The collapsing fee chart invited an explanation that higher costs may have chased traders back to Solana and taken Robinhood’s volume with them. Weekly data, however, shows a narrower retreat.
Robinhood’s decentralized exchanges handled about $13 billion in the seven days through Sept. 16, up 5% from the preceding week, according to CoinDesk calculations using DeFiLlama, while stablecoin supply slipped just 1% to around $1 billion, with about $930 million of that sitting in decentralized-finance applications.
The businesses built on the chain kept earning far more than the chain itself, taking about $8 million in fees over the latest 24 hours and retaining $1.5 million as revenue per data tracked by DeFiLlama, against the network’s $230,000.
What traders are saying
Pseudonymous trader Unipcs, who is ranked first by all-time profit on FOMO, a trading platform that tracks memecoin traders’ performance publicly, held his positions through the reversal and said the expensive stretch never entered his thinking.
“The earlier higher gas fees did not affect me or any trencher I know,” he told CoinDesk in a Telegram message. “People don’t care about that as long as they can make money on the chain.” Trencher, in crypto parlance, is someone who trades newly launched tokens in the earliest hours after they appear, when prices move fastest.
