Data published by DefiLlama on October 4, 2026, shows a stark divide in blockchain activity: of 558 networks monitored by the platform, 514 generated less than $1,000 in transaction fees over a 24-hour period, while only seven chains surpassed $100,000 in the same window.
The breakdown is more extreme at the lower end. Of the 558 networks tracked, 443 recorded fee revenue under $10, and 399 registered exactly $0 in fees for the day. DefiLlama's figures indicate that 92.5% of the monitored networks are effectively inactive, generating negligible or no on-chain revenue.
Solana Leads a Narrow Top Tier
At the opposite end of the spectrum, Solana topped the fee rankings with $1.09 million in daily transaction fees. Tron followed with $922,900, and BNB Chain recorded $793,900. Ethereum ranked fourth with $435,000 in fees, and Bitcoin placed fifth with $325,600.
Rounding out the group of networks that exceeded the $100,000 threshold were Base, with $114,800 in daily fees, and Robinhood Chain, with $100,900. Beyond these seven chains, no other network in DefiLlama's dataset reached six-figure daily fee revenue.
Bitcoin's Fee Share Remains Marginal
For Bitcoin specifically, the fee figures sit against a backdrop of structurally low transaction fee dependency. Following the most recent halving, block emission stands at 3.125 BTC per block. During periods of low network congestion, transaction fees account for approximately 0.60% of the total block reward, meaning more than 99% of miner revenue continues to rely on the fixed subsidy and the market price of bitcoin rather than fee income.
That dynamic places Bitcoin's miner economics in a different category from networks such as Solana or Tron, where transaction fees captured on the day of the snapshot represented a larger share of total daily network revenue relative to their respective reward structures.
A Fragmented Landscape
The scale of the gap between the top seven networks and the remaining 551 underscores how fee-generating activity across the broader blockchain landscape remains concentrated among a small number of chains. With close to 93% of monitored networks producing little to no fee revenue on the day captured by DefiLlama, the data points to a market where usage, at least as measured by transaction fees, is far from evenly distributed across the hundreds of chains now being tracked.
