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Metaplex June Round-Up 2026

July 15th, 2026

June Highlights

  • $MPLX - $MPLX expanded to the Korean market with listings on Upbit and Bithumb.

  • Metaplex Core - Core NFT mints reached 660K (+142% MoM), the highest month since inception.

  • Metaplex Onchain Activity - New Metaplex tokens created and monthly unique signers all grew MoM as Solana onchain activity picked up.

  • Protocol Revenue - Monthly revenue reached $201k (+17% MoM), the highest level since Mar’26.

  • $MPLX Buyback - The Metaplex DAO bought back 3.6M $MPLX (0.4% of total supply / 0.7% of outstanding supply), bringing the DAO’s total holdings to 328mm MPLX (33% of total supply)

Protocol Activity

In June, Metaplex generated $201K in protocol revenue, up 16.8% from May, including $117K from Token Metadata (58%), $69K from Core (34%), and $15K from Genesis and Other (8%).

In June, 166K Token Metadata assets were created, up 15% MoM, including 129K fungible tokens (78%).

New Core mints reached 660K, up 142% from May and the highest month in history.

In June, approximately 136K unique wallets signed transactions with Metaplex, up from 120K in May (+13% MoM).

Metaplex Platform

Agent Profiles And Discovery

Metaplex continued building out the 014 Agent Registry, moving beyond the identity layer toward a discoverable surface for agent services. On June 10th, Metaplex introduced Agent Profiles, giving users one place to evaluate an agent's overview, services, onchain identity, and associated token. The redesigned agents page lets users search and filter agents based on whether they have services or a tradable token, making the registry easier to browse and act on from the Metaplex App. March and April established the onchain registry and agent-token launch path; June made the next step more practical by giving users and builders a way to find agents, understand what they do, engage their services, and follow their token or asset from one place.

DAS Agent Indexing

On June 25th, Metaplex announced new DAS support for onchain agents with help from RPC partners Triton, Helius, QuickNode, and Alchemy. DAS can now identify registered agents, surface an agent's primary token, and reverse lookup agents by primary token or asset signer PDA.

The agent signer lookup is especially important for the 014 stack. The asset signer PDA is the operational wallet an agent uses to sign transactions through MPL Core's execute instruction. Indexing that relationship gives wallets, explorers, apps, and agent platforms a cleaner way to trace activity back to the registered Core asset rather than treating agent wallets as anonymous accounts.

Core Groups

Core continued to improve as the most powerful standard on Solana by introducing a new categorization feature "Groups". For creators, Core Groups provide a clean way to organize related Core assets, collections, and groups together, including releases that combine 1/1 NFTs and editions. This closes a familiar workflow gap for creators migrating from legacy Token Metadata collections while preserving Core's cost and composability advantages.

For agents, Core Groups also introduce a non-custodial taxonomy layer. Projects can group agents by affiliation without requiring those agents to give up custody or transfer update authority to a collection authority. That gives agent platforms a better way to represent teams, networks, and fleets while keeping each agent self-sovereign and owner-managed.

Watchlists

The Metaplex App also added watchlists for tokens and agents in June. Users can add any token or agent to a watchlist and track them in one place, reinforcing the same broader product direction as Agent Profiles and Arena: discovery, monitoring, and trading should live closer together.

RWAs and Tokenized Securities R&D

Metaplex Foundation advanced new infrastructure for issuing and managing RWAs with native compliance functionality enforced onchain. These programs are now live on devnet.

Metaplex DAO

Metaplex Protocol Revenue & $MPLX Buybacks

June’s buybacks reached 3.6M $MPLX as $100k of May's protocol revenue went towards buybacks for the DAO (0.4% of the total supply / 0.7% of outstanding supply). Each month, 50% of prior month’s protocol revenue is allocated to $MPLX buybacks for the DAO.

June protocol fees reached $201K USD (2,865 SOL), 50% of which will be used to buy back $MPLX for the DAO throughout June.

As of July 13th, the Metaplex DAO directly holds 300M $MPLX (30% of total supply) and has deployed an additional 28mm tokens (2.8% of total supply) as protocol owned liquidity (POL).

Metaplex Foundation

As of July 13th, Metaplex Foundation holds 168M $MPLX (16.8% of total supply) in treasury wallets, with an additional 14mm tokens (1.4% of total supply) deployed in passive Kamino LP positions.

Partnership and Community Highlights

Upbit and Bithumb Listings

$MPLX was listed on Upbit (USDT, BTC) and Bithumb (KRW), marking a major step forward in expanding global access to Metaplex. These listings on South Korea's two largest exchanges follow an extensive push into the Korean ecosystem through community marketing activations and live events. Metaplex will continue to bring tokenization on Solana to Korea with the next major activation coming at Korea Blockchain Week.

Collector Crypt, Candy Digital, Core, And TCG Assets

Collector Crypt remained one of the strongest consumer collectibles proof points in June. Metaplex highlighted that after powering the $CARDS launch and all current Collector Crypt assets with Metaplex standards, Collector Crypt would continue building with Core. The message was simple: Core is becoming the asset standard behind physical-collectible behavior on Solana, from cards and gachas to broader tokenized collectibles markets.

Rosentica: One Arena extended that story into 2 game-like TCG utility. One Arena lets users battle with their TCG collections and win real cards, with each asset powered by Collector Crypt and Metaplex standards. Instead of treating collectibles as static assets, the experience turns them into playable, reward-bearing objects. 

Candy Digital kicked off its migration to Metaplex Core, establishing Core as the NFT standard for some of the world’s biggest IP, including MLB and WWE. The migration began in June and was the primary driver of Core mints for the month, with more than one million NFTs expected to migrate as the rollout continues through July and August.

Agent Infrastructure Integrations

June was a big month for integrations as the registry reached adoption across the ecosystem. 333 of the first avatars from trythreews were added to the 014 Agent Registry, giving browser-native 3D agents onchain identity and reputation. With their powerful recent partnership announcements with IBM, Alibaba Cloud and others, Threews is set to bring Metaplex Assets to some of the most well known and trusted brands in the world.

Clawpump also brought agentic tokenization live with Metaplex, using the Genesis Protocol and Agent Registry so agents can deploy themselves onchain and launch official tokens to fund themselves. This is the cleanest expression of the agentic capital markets story: an agent can have identity, a wallet, a profile, and a token launch path tied directly to its Core asset.

Ecosystem

June saw continued activity across agents, creator tooling, token launches, collectibles, and app surfaces building around Metaplex.

  • trythreews - Added 333 of its first avatars to the 014 Agent Registry, bringing onchain identity and reputation to browser-native 3D agents.

  • Clawpump - Integrated Metaplex Genesis and the Agent Registry so agents can deploy themselves onchain and launch official Agent Tokens.

  • Open Covenant - Built on the 014 Agent Registry so Covenant agents can prove who they are and what they did through Metaplex-powered onchain identity.

  • Hatcher - Announced a Metaplex integration for onchain agent identity, public profiles, custom agent avatars, and metadata.

  • Voight - Began integrating with the Metaplex Agent Registry to bring hundreds of observable AI agents onchain with real-time monitoring on Solana.

  • mallow - Brought Core Groups live for organizing Core Master Editions and 1/1s as a single series, based on its prior Metaplex DAO proposal.

  • Collector Crypt / Rosentica - Extended Metaplex-powered collectibles into TCG gameplay through Rosentica: One Arena, where users can play with their collections and win real cards.

  • Eitherway - Highlighted support for Core NFTs, compressed NFTs, Candy Machine, Genesis token launches, and Token Metadata fungible tokens from one creation surface. 

  • aigntfun - Joined the expanding roster of projects building around the Metaplex Agent Registry.

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Last, thanks to TopLedger for their data support on this month’s round-up. They provide real-time monitoring of Metaplex activity and usage to the ecosystem. For additional Metaplex onchain metrics, please refer to the following link.

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