The author highlights significant growth in Solana gaming, specifically noting that Fast Poker is processing millions of transactions and increasing its unique user base. The post also mentions a "comeback" for the decentralized exchange Drift and references Hyperliquid as a competitor in the perpetuals space. Technical improvements to Solana infrastructure, such as Private Ephemeral Rollups (PER) and the v0.11.4 release, are cited as supporting this increased network activity.