Metaplex March Round-Up 2026

March Highlights

• 014 Agent Registry - New onchain registry for agent identity and discovery powered by Metaplex Core.

• Core Asset Creation - March marked the highest month of Core asset creation since its inception two years ago with 458K assets minted.

• Metaplex Agent Kit - Enables developers and agent creators to light up any agent runtime with a Solana wallet, x402 APIs, and the onchain identity needed for agent-to-agent commerce.

• Metaplex Summit - A hand selected group of 25 of the top players in the Korean market come together to discuss bringing K-culture onchain.

• $MPLX Buyback -  $154k of February's protocol revenue used to buy back 5.0M $MPLX for the DAO (0.5% of the total supply / 0.9% of outstanding supply)

• Protocol Revenue - $282k in protocol revenue

Protocol Activity

In March, Metaplex generated $282k in protocol revenue including $196k from Token Metadata (69%), $60K from Core (21%) and $19K from Genesis (7%).

In March, 197K Token Metadata assets were created, including 196K fungible tokens (99%). 

New Core mints grew over 10% MoM to 458K, the highest month in Core’s history.

In March, approximately 277K unique wallets signed transactions with Metaplex, the highest level since November 2025.

Metaplex Platform

MIP-014: Metaplex Agent Registry

In March, the 014 Agent Registry was launched providing the onchain passport for agent identity and A2A commerce. Built on Metaplex Core, the 014 Agent Registry enables agents to tap into existing NFT infrastructure on Solana. Each agent comes standard with its own wallet, capable of signing transactions and making payments with the x402 protocol, all without exposing private keys and remaining secure. Launched alongside 14 of the leading agent projects on Solana including NoahAI, MoltID and many others, the registry has quickly become the de facto agent registry on Solana. These agents are also automatically indexed throughout the Solana ecosystem via the DAS API’s native support for Metaplex Core. In addition to generating protocol revenue with each new onchain agent registered through the creation of a new Core NFT, each transaction executed by these wallets/agents also results in an additional protocol fee tied to the Execute instruction. These developments pave the way for agent-to-agent commerce on Solana and lay the rails for agentic finance, where value creating agents can capitalize themselves through issuing tokens in order to pay for compute and inference.

The Metaplex Agent Kit

Alongside the 014 Agent Registry, The Metaplex Agent Kit was announced, enabling developers and agent creators to light up any agent runtime with a solana wallet, x402 APIs, and the onchain identity needed for agent-to-agent commerce. The Agent Kit is a comprehensive suite of tools including skills, agent minting, registering agents, reading agent data, creating agent tokens and running the agents. As the agentic tidal wave continues to push through the industry, users have all of the tools, documentation and skills necessary to create, monetize and realize an endless variety of AI agents, all orchestrated on top of Metaplex standards and protocols.

Metaplex App

Following the February launch of the Metaplex App, a suite of new features rolled out steadily including:

• Existing token support - all existing tokens on Solana using Token Metadata are now tradable and discoverable in the app

• Trending tokens for expedited discovery 

• A comprehensive data suite and trading chart/swap

• Socials & Twitter Verification

Metaplex DAO

Metaplex Protocol Revenue & $MPLX Buybacks

March’s buybacks reached 5.0M $MPLX as $154k of February's protocol revenue went towards buybacks for the DAO (0.5% of the total supply / 0.9% of outstanding supply). Each month, 50% of prior month’s protocol revenue is allocated to $MPLX buybacks for the DAO. 

March protocol fees reached $282k USD (3,219 SOL), 50% of these fees will be used to buy back $MPLX for the DAO throughout April.

With cumulative protocol revenue exceeding 48 million (326,960 SOL) to-date, Metaplex continues to scale while the DAO remains a key driver of governance, development, and ecosystem growth.

Metaplex Rewards Campaign

In March, the Torque Rewards Campaign continued, incentivizing a variety of activities in the Metaplex App. Rewards for the Season 1 Leaderboard Campaign went live, sending out $MPLX across 216 winners.

Partnership and Community Highlights

The First Metaplex Summit in Korea

The beginning of March marked an important global milestone as Metaplex hosted the first ever Metaplex Summit in Korea, gathering a curated group of the most influential and impactful players in the Korean market sponsored by Solana Foundation, K Wave Media, Tashi and Honors Asset Management. In this invitation-only event with 25 of the top leading Korean financial institutions, investment firms, crypto protocols, legal experts, and media, there was one agenda: Korean IP tokenization on Solana.

Korean IP Tokenization: The Gaon Project - Led by K Wave Media, The Gaon Project is a new initiative to tokenize Korean IP through RWAs built around K-pop, K-drama, film, and animation, connecting global fandoms with internet native capital formation. The organizations will collaborate on integrating Metaplex’s tokenization platform with K Wave Media’s cultural IP portfolio to develop new models linking globally influential content with digital assets, global fan communities and internet-native capital formation.

014 Agent Registry Launch Partners - The Metaplex 104 Agent Registry launched with 14 of the top partners in the industry including Solana Foundation, Magic Eden, MoltID, Neuko, Noah AI, SendAI, Fairscale, Idolly, Tashi Protocol, SeekerClaw, Lucid Chain, SAID, Kamiyoai and Quantu. This overwhelming support and integration from the top Agentic platforms in the ecosystem positioned the Metaplex 014 Agent Registry as the leading agent registry on Solana with hundreds of onchain agents being registered monthly.

Trendsdotfun Hackathon - Sponsored by Metaplex, developers were instructed to deploy agents onchain using Metaplex Core, and leverage the Metaplex agent kit to explore agent-to-agent use cases and token launches tied to agents.

Ecosystem

March saw continued growth across applications, creator platforms, and developer communities building with Metaplex. From AI-driven asset creation to large-scale commerce platforms launching on Solana, momentum continued across the broader ecosystem.

• Xona - Announced their registration under 014 Agent Registry.

• Magic Eden - Integrated seamless trading of Metaplex Agents on their NFT marketplace.

• MoltID - MoltID agents went live in 014 Agent Registry.

• ClawdMint - Completed their migration to the 014 Agent Registry.

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