Raydium, a popular decentralized exchange (DEX) built on Solana, has bought back $196.3 million in tokens of its native currency, http://www.statutecdesign.co.uk/love-raydium-stuff-still-owning-native-token-repurchases-196-3-million-worth/ This repurchasing of tokens included 71 million of its tokens or 26.4 percent of the total circulating supply. With such a large decrease in supply it is typically a sign of protocol confidence, and can shear token value in the long run. A 2023 study in the Journal of Financial Economics noted that stock buybacks likely produce a 5-10 percent price appreciations, and the same may be true of crypto, such as $RAY. Unique Fee Model Fuels Sustainable Growth The buyback program is funded by a unique fee structure whereby, 12 percent of trading fees are set aside, to purchase token repurchases. It is unlike many other crypto projects, and those are highly dependent on venture capital financing or the initial coin offerings. Trading revenue not only adds value to the Raydium tokenomics, but also enables the platform to be self-sustaining and positioned to generate incessant value over time. Besides, the exchange has both the Concentrated Liquidity Market Maker (CLMM) and Constant Product Market Maker (CPMM) pools, which provide efficient liquidity provider and maximize the revenue stream of the liquidity pool. Solana’s Infrastructure Enhances Raydium’s Potential Powering Raydium with Solana blockchain, near-instant block speed of up to 65,000 TPS is available as opposed to 15-30 TPS on Ethereum. During 2024 alone, the Raydium platform facilitated over 10 billion in trading volumes proving the growing levels of trust in Solana-based DeFi tools. The buyback highlights one of the moves in how DeFi protocols are leaving long term-sustainability. The buyback by Raydium is part of a larger trend that led to successful performance of projects that adopt buybacks. According to the SolanaFloor, the average YTD returns of this type of project during 2025 were -0.48%, which is much higher than the decline on the non-buyback projects of -47.15%. Community mood has also been quite positive with thousands of interactions with the post by Anatoly Yakovenko and many interpreting this as a positive sign on the protocol and DeFi on Solana.