June 15th, 2026
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Metaplex Arena - A new trading surface for Metaplex-launched tokens went live in the Web App, giving users one place to discover new pairs and track what’s graduating.
Solana Accelerate - Metaplex Foundation showed up at Solana Accelerate to share about the future of AI and TCGs powered by Metaplex.
$MPLX Buyback - The Metaplex DAO bought back 3.3M $MPLX (0.3% of total supply / 0.6% of outstanding supply).
Protocol Revenue - $172k in protocol revenue.
In May, Metaplex generated $172K in protocol revenue including $125K from Token Metadata (73%), $35K from Core (20%), and $12K from Genesis and Other (7%).
In May, 144K Token Metadata assets were created, including 104K fungible tokens (72%).
New Core mints reached 273K.
In May, approximately 120K unique wallets signed transactions with Metaplex, up from 114K in April.
On May 19th, Metaplex introduced the Arena, a new trading surface for Metaplex-launched tokens. The Arena gives users a live view across New Tokens, About to Graduate, and Graduated markets, making it easier to track launch pools and bonding curves from one place.
The launch also came with a rebuilt Metaplex homepage focused on discovery and trading. Instead of treating issuance and discovery as separate surfaces, the App now gives users a clearer path from finding what is trending to trading what was launched through Metaplex. After April expanded launch mechanics with Agent Tokens and bonding curves, the new homepage and the Arena made those markets easier to follow in real time.
Metaplex continued to build out the agent stack in May. The agent onboarding guide moved front and center in the Metaplex Agent Kit docs, giving agents a path to register onchain, tap into ecosystem-wide NFT infrastructure as Core assets, and launch official agent tokens.
Developers can also now fork a working Metaplex agent template and spin up an onchain agent in minutes. The template includes SIWS wallet auth, onchain identity through the 014 Agent Registry, Mastra + Umi, and a companion chat frontend for testing and debugging locally. It also ships with prebuilt tools for balances, transfers, swaps, token launches, and treasury actions, turning the Agent Kit from a conceptual stack into a usable starting point for builders.
Core Agents also moved closer to native payment rails as x402 added support for Core Agents, bringing onchain payments while preserving the benefits of tokenizing agents as Core assets: a functional wallet without exposing private keys, identity and discoverability through the 014 Registry, and access to NFT infrastructure across the Solana ecosystem.
Metaplex tokens also received a dramatic compute-cost improvement, lowering execution overhead for token flows and making the token launch stack more efficient for builders and apps operating at scale.
May’s buybacks reached 3.3M $MPLX as $84k of April's protocol revenue went towards buybacks for the DAO (0.3% of the total supply / 0.6% of outstanding supply). Each month, 50% of prior month’s protocol revenue is allocated to $MPLX buybacks for the DAO.
May protocol fees reached $172K USD (1,985 SOL), 50% of which will be used to buy back $MPLX for the DAO throughout June.
As of June 11th, the Metaplex DAO holds 296M $MPLX (29.6% of total supply) and has deployed an additional 40mm tokens (4.0% of total supply) as protocol owned liquidity (POL).
In May, the initial Agent Rewards campaign concluded. Throughout Season 1, $50K worth of $MPLX was distributed to top agent token launches and traders. Rewards were split across agents launching official Agent Tokens and users trading or holding them, reinforcing the agent token market after April's initial launch.
As of June 11th, Metaplex Foundation holds 169M $MPLX (16.9% of total supply) in treasury wallets, with an additional 18mm tokens (1.8% of total supply) deployed in passive Kamino LP positions.
Collector Crypt continued to show how Metaplex asset standards can power consumer-scale collectibles. In May, Metaplex highlighted that Collector Crypt has created more than 130K Metaplex assets to date, while also powering their $CARDS launch with Metaplex Genesis.
Later in the month, ComicBook's vending machine brought iconic comics and Pokemon cards onchain as Metaplex assets. With ComicBook reaching 44M monthly readers, the launch gave Metaplex a clear consumer collectibles proof point: familiar IP and physical-collectible behavior moving into self-custody, tradable Solana assets.
Collector Crypt's APIs also opened to power gachas across Solana, with cards tokenized through various Metaplex Asset standards.
DAEMON announced a partnership with Metaplex to build Metaplex AgentOps, a simple way to create, register, run, and manage onchain agents. This extends the 014 Registry and Agent Kit story into operational tooling for teams that want to run agents, not just mint identity or launch tokens.
Metaplex showed up at Solana Accelerate with AI, stablecoins, and TCGs dominating the conversation.
Head of BD & Partnerships, Clay Helms took the stage on AI Day to talk about the future of the agentic economy on Metaplex.
BD & Partnerships Manager, Nicholas Strange spoke at Consumer Day showcasing Metaplex Web App as the best place to discover, trade, and launch tokens on Solana.
The takeaway from Accelerate was clear: Metaplex infrastructure sat underneath almost all of the narratives that mattered most, including AI agents, tokenized collectibles, stablecoin payment rails, and internet-native capital formation.
May saw continued activity across agent platforms, collectibles, data infrastructure, and launch experiments building around Metaplex.
Collector Crypt - Collector Crypt opened APIs for Solana gachas, with cards tokenized using Metaplex Core, pNFTs, Token Metadata, and Bubblegum v2.
Hyre - Hyre showed a no-code path for creating AI agents and tokenizing them through Metaplex, positioning the protocol as infrastructure for agentic commerce without requiring builders to write code.
DAEMON - DAEMON announced Metaplex AgentOps, bringing agent creation, registration, runtime, and management into a dedicated operational layer for onchain agents.
Roaster - Roaster went live on mainnet with Seeker SZN, adding another agent-adjacent launch and rewards surface in the broader ecosystem powered by Metaplex.
TopLedger - TopLedger APIs went live with Solana DeFi intelligence and agent-ready MCP tools across lending, staking, yield, LPs, perps, governance, rewards, and DEX PnL.
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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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Metaplex, the tokenization protocol used for 99% of token and NFT issuance on Solana, announced today the release of the Metaplex App, allowing anyone to discover, trade and launch tokens using Metaplex protocols.
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