Arcam has set its sights on Solana’s thriving DEX market, announcing the launch of decentralized trading capabilities exclusively integrated with the Solana ecosystem.
Arcam will now incorporate decentralized trading into Intel’s platform. As it stands, it operates not only as a standalone DEX, but also as a hybrid that provides information integrated with the actual execution of Solana tokens.
arkhams New features Users can now discover, filter, and most importantly, trade Solana tokens with high frequency and low latency without leaving the Arkham platform.
Arkham evolves from CEX to DEX
Arcam is currently making a concerted effort to expand its DeFi capabilities by allowing users to trade directly on the platform.
Arkham originally expanded into the trading realm with the launch of Arkham Exchange in late 2024. The platform offered CEX services such as Spot and Purps. However, I struggled with the low volume.
Earlier this year, rumors started circulating that the exchange would be shut down, but instead of shutting down, the platform pivoted and switched to decentralization.
Proponents of returning to Arkham to separate it from other regular DEXs that don’t offer as much information. They also praised the decision to test on Solana first, as the ecosystem with its high throughput and buzzing DeFi scene is the perfect sandbox for experimentation.
Solana’s DEX market is thriving
The Solana DeFi scene and DEX market are active, but most of that activity is currently driven by memecoin trading.
According to data from Defillama, Solana is currently rank As far as 24-hour spot DEX trading volume is concerned, it ranks third among all blockchain chains after Ethereum and Base, with $921 million traded in the past day alone.
The network jumped to No. 1 in seven days and is close to $46 billion for the month. Orca, Raydium, Manifest Trade, Meteora, and Pump led the activity on the network.
A thriving DeFi scene is also attracting developers, and Solana reportedly has a share of all active developers. crowding In contrast, Ethereum’s share dropped significantly from 82% to 31%.
Solana currently attracts the most hobbyist developers, with its share increasing to 28% in 2025, 4% more than Ethereum and 12% more than Base.
In the same year, Solana had the most new developers at 4,100, followed by Ethereum at 3,700 and Base at about 2,500. All three ecosystems together accounted for 61% of all new developers in 2025.
This growth impacted Solana’s product shipment rate. According to reports, the Solana dApp store currently hosts over 700 applications, and more are most likely on the way if the Solana Foundation has anything to say about it.
In March of this year, the Foundation launched the Solana developer platform, a unified interface aimed at simplifying development for businesses and institutions. We already have early adopters such as Mastercard, Worldpay and Western Union, demonstrating the increasing involvement of institutions in the ecosystem.
