According to CryptoSlate, citing a DefiLlama snapshot on November 10, the 7-day perpetual contract trading volume within the Solana category approached $9 billion, representing a 65.29% increase compared to the previous week, with GMTrade contributing approximately 77%. Data from the same dashboard over a 7-day comparison showed that spot decentralized exchange trading volume dropped by 5% to $9.9 billion, while stablecoin market capitalization decreased by 4.38% to $14.5 billion. The perpetual contract statistics exclude the trading volume of Pacifica, which is classified as off-chain; trading volume does not equal net new capital inflows or SOL buying pressure.