Solana (SOL) Price Prediction 2025, 2026 – 2034
After nearly disappearing from the crypto map in the wake of FTX’s collapse in 2022, Solana has roared back to become one of the most important blockchains for Web3. Utilizing a unique proof-of-history layer, Solana manages to validate hundreds of thousands of transactions per second and seems to have finally solved its problem with frequent outages.
As of December 19, 2025 Solana price is trading at $126.85, which is on the way to its all-time high of $294.16. Here is some quick data on the current Solana performance:
In this Solana price prediction, we dive into Solana’s price history and uncover what has happened before, before looking to the protocol and the future to make SOL price predictions for each year between 2025 and 2034.
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Solana Price Prediction Overview
| Coin Name | Solana (SOL) |
|---|---|
| Solana Price | $126.85 |
| Solana ATH | $294.16 (January 19, 2025) |
| Solana Price Change 24h | ▲ 6.9100% |
| Solana Price Change 7d | ▼ -3.88% |
| Solana Market Cap | $74.67B |
| Circulating Supply | 588.68M |
- 2017: Solana was first conceptualized and utilizes a unique proof-of-history concept which allows it to increase transaction throughput to up to 700,000 transactions per second.
- 2020: The network was launched, with a first recorded price of $0.9511. Despite its technical claims, Solana has had multiple network outages each year since its inception—however, the price impact of these is negligible.
- 2022: $SOL was declining as a result of multiple outages, bearish market conditions, and the collapse of FTX and Alameda Research, which were closely tied to Solana.
- 2023: After being declared dead by many at the end of 2022, SOL staged a miraculous comeback, rising from under $10 at the start of the year to finish the year at $109.55—a gain of 997%. Solana’s winning streak continued into 2024, with $SOL hitting a price of over $256 in November.
- 2025: Solana hit its all-time high (ATH) of $294.16 on January 19, 2025 amid Trump’s election and inauguration.
Our Solana price prediction expects SOL to hit new ATHs of No price prediction available for the specified year. in 2025 on the back of the Bitcoin Halving effect. Solana could also hit an ATH of $190.01 in 2030 and trade at an average price of $166.66 at the end of the decade.
Solana Price Predictions 2025-2034
The table below summarizes our Solana price predictions for each year between now and 2035.
| Year | Potential Low (ROI) | Average Price (ROI) | Potential High (ROI) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $131.36 (3.55%) | $135.87 (7.11%) | $140.37 (10.66%) |
| 2027 | $135.53 (6.85%) | $144.51 (13.92%) | $153.77 (21.22%) |
| 2028 | $139.34 (9.85%) | $152.62 (20.32%) | $166.72 (31.43%) |
| 2029 | $142.73 (12.52%) | $160.05 (26.18%) | $178.91 (41.04%) |
| 2030 | $145.67 (14.84%) | $166.66 (31.38%) | $190.01 (49.79%) |
| 2031 | $148.13 (16.78%) | $172.31 (35.83%) | $199.68 (57.42%) |
| 2032 | $150.08 (18.31%) | $176.86 (39.43%) | $207.65 (63.69%) |
| 2033 | $151.50 (19.43%) | $180.24 (42.09%) | $213.64 (68.42%) |
| 2034 | $152.37 (20.12%) | $182.35 (43.75%) | $217.46 (71.43%) |
| 2035 | $152.67 (20.36%) | $183.14 (44.37%) | $218.97 (72.62%) |
In the sections below we dive deeper into our Solana price prediction for each year remaining in this decade and detail the reasons as to why we’ve come to the conclusion we have for each year.
Solana Price Prediction For 2025
- 2025 Potential High: No price prediction available for the specified year.
- 2025 Average Price: No price prediction available for the specified year.
- 2025 Potential Low: No price prediction available for the specified year.
In 2025, the key catalyst has been regulation. In July, U.S. regulators approved Solana ETFs, opening the door for retirement platforms, funds, and structured products to add SOL exposure. New capital channels typically lift liquidity and tighten spreads, and the announcement put Solana back on institutional roadmaps and retail watchlists.
On-chain progress is the second pillar in 2025. Scalability work, early zk-rollup components, and cross-chain bridges are improving throughput and reliability. DeFi protocols, NFT markets, gaming titles, and consumer apps continue to integrate with one another. Partnerships — including oracle links such as Chainlink — expand data sources and deepen liquidity across venues.
Solana Price Prediction For 2026
- 2026 Potential High: $133.34
- 2026 Average Price: $131.18
- 2026 Potential Low: $129.01
If the Bitcoin Halving induces highs in 2025, then 2026 is the year when there is expected to be a fallout from that event. This fallout will, however, be cushioned by a globally improving regulatory landscape for cryptocurrencies that are receiving increasing institutional adoption. Solana’s close connections to companies will help it weather the Halving fallout storm better than others.
This will especially be true as Solana has its first year ever without suffering a major outage, as the now diverse network of blockchain clients helps to keep the network operational when one of the clients suffers an outage.
Solana Price Prediction For 2030
- 2030 Potential High: $190.01
- 2030 Average Price: $166.66
- 2030 Potential Low: $145.67
If 2029 is the year that we see new all-time highs from the Bitcoin Halving then 2030 is going to be the year where, as before, the fallout from these highs comes in. However, with cryptocurrencies now wholly mainstream the losses are much lower than for previous Halving events, and this one mainly helps to consolidate prices.
Historical Performance of Solana
The Solana mainnet was launched on March 17th, 2020, and the first price data for Solana on CoinMarketCap comes from April 10th, 2020, where the token was worth $0.9511.
From here it declined, hit its all-time low of $0.5052 on May 11th, and traded between $0.50 and $0.70 until July. In July, SOL started climbing, reaching above $1 for the first time. As interest in the token and network continued to grow SOL continued to climb peaking at a yearly high of $4.4217 at the end of August, before bottoming out at $1.3251 at the end of the year.
2021: The Rise of Solana
The crypto market rallied into 2021 and Solana followed suit, climbing from $1.8456 at the start of the year, to peak at $49.50 at the start of May, just as Bitcoin was touching $60k for the first time. Nevertheless, this was a 2,582% increase and an impressive 11x increase on its high of last year.
SOL then settled into a trading range between $25 and $50 until the middle of August, when it started to climb the charts. It stalled in early September as the first partial outage hit the network, but continued to hit a high of $187.61, before retracing to $132, a decline that included Solana’s first major outage on September 14th, lasting 17 hours.
SOL bounced off this price and almost doubled in value between then and early November, as it hit its then all-time high of $260.06 on November 6th—just as the rest of the crypto market was also peaking. From here the price of SOL declined in line with the rest of the crypto market, finishing the year at $178.53.
2022 – 2023: Solana’s Roller Coaster
Early 2022 hurt. In January, Solana logged six major and three minor outages (96.43% uptime). Price held near $80 through February and March, popped above $132 late March, then slid. By early June, SOL broke $40 and briefly found support around $30. Not exactly a confidence boost.
November was worse. After Binance said it would liquidate FTT on November 6, FTX unraveled. FTX and Alameda backed Solana and held over 10% of SOL’s supply, so sellers rushed for the exits. SOL dropped more than 60% in four days, steadied near $13, and ended 2022 just under $10—down 94.4% for the year.
2023 flipped the tone. On-chain use held up and, by the end of January, SOL had gained 161%. Through the first half, $20 acted as support, and the price mostly ranged from $20-$25. A 19-hour outage in February landed with little price impact. Stability wasn’t pretty, but it was progress.
Regulation bit in June. SEC suits against major exchanges labeled SOL a security, and the price fell 33% below $15. The bounce started in July above $25, then momentum built after a false Bitcoin ETF headline in mid-October. BONK lit a meme-coin wave on Solana. SOL finished 2023 near $109.55, up 997%.
2024: The Season of Meme Coins and Political Movements
With SOL now back in the top 10, the coin was more subject to the ebb and flow of the wider market than ever and followed the market through its speculative motions as Bitcoin ETF approval came.
It struggled against the psychological barrier of $100 for a while and, to no consequence, suffered a 5 hour outage on February 6th—it actually gained 24% in the 8 days after this event, climbing above $100 for the first time in 2024.
At the Breakpoint 2024 Conference, held in September 2024 in Singapore, Solana showed great advancements within the network. These announcements included the Firedancer project capable of processing 1 million transactions per second and highlighted increased institutional investments, DeFi partnerships, and cross-chain technology developments. These events showed Solana’s potential leadership in blockchain scalability and global expansion, making its community feel more motivated. By the end of the same month, these factors pushed $SOL’s price to around $156.
Donald Trump’s win in the U.S. Presidential Election in early November 2024 and his promises of a crypto-friendly administration also impacted Solana’s price. The new administration’s promises regarding policies supportive of the digital asset ecosystem made investors highly optimistic. Following this event, $SOL reached $237 by the end of the month and finished the year at $189.26.
Current State of Solana
Solana in 2025 stays fast and low-cost, with high throughput and low latency. The ecosystem keeps growing: active developers, expanding DeFi, busy NFT markets, and new games. Upgrades focus on scale, security, and interoperability—early zk-rollup work and stronger bridges—so apps run smoother and connect across chains.
The network hosts hundreds of dApps, relevant DEXs, stablecoins, and Chainlink integrations. Regulation looks more supportive, and ETF discussions add confidence. Trading stays active, and SOL often ranks near the top by market value, frequently above $200. Challenges remain—traffic spikes and competition from Ethereum L2s and Avalanche—but upgrades keep easing bottlenecks and supporting growth.
Below we’ve collated some stats to show the current state of Solana and its market position.
- 656 dApps, ranking it #8 (DappRadar)
- $10.96 billion in TVL, ranking it 2nd with 8.9% of all DeFi TVL (DeFiLlama)
- 3,860 active developers, ranking it in 4th (Developer Report)
- $6.4 billion in NFT sales, ranking it #2 (CryptoSlam)
- 67% of available SOL staked (Coinbase)
- Around 21 months since last network outage (Solana Labs)
Market Position and Performance
After its decrease of -31.72% in the last year, Solana sits in 6th place and is getting closer to BNB. The price of SOL is currently $126.85. As can be seen from the chart below, its rise earlier this year mirrored the rise of Bitcoin – showing how linked the two tokens are as we head into a possible bull market in 2025.
What is Solana and What is it Used For?
Solana is an open source, third generation, layer 1 blockchain designed for mass adoption by being energy efficient, fast, and inexpensive to use. It uses a proof-of-stake consensus model, which is topped with a proof-of-history model to increase the speed of transaction validation and offer users sub-second finality.
The Solana network supports an ecosystem of smart contract based dApps, along with tokens and NFTs, and can, theoretically, process over 700,000 transactions per second.
The Solana blockchain was first conceived with the launch of the first version of the Solana whitepaper in 2017, authored by Anatoly Yakavenko. In it, he describes how a reliable clock can significantly simplify the synchronization of a decentralized network, enabling an increase in throughput that is then only limited by the network’s bandwidth.
Solana evolved through various iterations and displayed its transaction processing potential on multiple testnets before hosting an ICO in March 2020, and then launching mainnet in the same month. It is developed by the Solana Labs company and ecosystem growth is overseen by the Solana Foundation.
How Solana Works: Proof-of-Stake and Proof-of-History
Solana was designed as a layer 1 that does not require scaling solutions like the layer 2s relied on by other blockchains—specifically its main competitor Ethereum.
Like Ethereum and many other top layer 1 blockchain projects, Solana uses a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus model to provide security for the network. Here, validators stake tokens to be eligible to validate blocks, and their stake is slashed if they are found to be a bad actor.
What Solana does differently from others, is to add a proof-of-history (PoH) layer on top of this, implementing a cryptographically repeatable clock into the protocol, which then allows validators to cryptographically timestamp each event (transaction) and, consequently, add verifiable passage of time to the network.
For a distributed system like a decentralized blockchain, this addition of verifiable time allows for nodes in the network to independently verify a transaction’s validity without the need to rely on communicating with the other nodes in the network, as it knows that each other node would give the same answer to the transaction as it would.
This implementation of time removes the concept of software performance as a bottleneck and allows transaction throughput to scale proportional to bandwidth—it is in this manner that the figure of 700,000 transactions per second was reached, achievable when using a 1 gigabit connection.
In addition to this cryptographic clock, Solana also uses validator clusters, which can be given specific purposes in the network, to divide up tasks and help to scale the blockchain.
Solana and the Blockchain Trilemma
The blockchain trilemma was first talked about by Vitalik Buterin, and states that a public blockchain has three core features: security, scalability, and decentralization. But in order to increase two of them the other must be sacrificed.
Solana, in its goal of increasing throughput to improve the user experience, has sacrificed decentralization, by requiring high-level computing resources to run a validator—some estimates put it at $20,000 worth of equipment, before you even get to buying the SOL needed for staking.
Solana Staking and Transaction Fees
Solana validators must stake tokens to run validator services, with this stake being slashed if they are found to be a bad actor. Users can delegate their stake to a validator to boost that validator’s chance of getting selected to validate blocks. In return, the delegator receives a share of the newly released SOL.
Like on Ethereum, native staking is illiquid, meaning that, once staked, these tokens are locked and cannot be used. To resolve this problem, as on Ethereum, multiple Solana liquid staking protocols now exist to allow users to stake their tokens and earn rewards.
Transaction fees on Solana are incredibly low, costing an average $0.00025 at the time of writing. Transaction fees have a minimum base fee, 0.000005 SOL, that is then increased by a computation fee, which is relative to what the sender wants to do on the network, for example, using a smart contract requires a computation fee but just send SOL will be charged the base fee.
Those staking SOL to a validator receive a portion of the number of new SOL tokens generated for that block. The number of tokens received is calculated on the network’s current inflation rate, the number of SOL staked on the network, and their chosen validator’s uptime and fee.
Solana’s Network Shutdowns
As shown in the price history section above, Solana has had multiple major downtime incidents, 6 in total, combined with numerous partial outages that have affected block production or other elements of the network. The most recent outage, in February 2024, was caused by a bug identified back in April 2022.
These have led many to criticize the network for its unreliability and its centralized nature, with these events shining the light more brightly on this aspect of the chain with each occurrence. However, as noted, these seem to have an negligible effect on the price of SOL.
Venture Capital and Developing on Solana
Solana’s popularity persists despite these outages, and this is, in part, due to the fact that it is heavily backed by large venture capital firms. 48% of the network’s tokens were set aside for these investors.
Another reason why Solana potentially persists in its popularity despite these outages is the fact that developers can write smart contracts in the popular Rust, C, and C+ programming languages, allowing for the creation of a range of smart contracts.
Such accessibility makes Solana a draw for developers and a large number of hackathons, with large prizes and pre-seed funding potential help to continually draw developers to the network.
What is Solana’s Native SOL Used For?
SOL is the native currency of the Solana blockchain and is required for interacting with the network. The SOL coin has multiple use cases:
- Paying network transactions fees
- Staking to run a validator
- Delegating to a validator to earn rewards
- The main token pair in Solana DeFi
- Used to buy Solana NFTs
On-chain governance is a feature that has been proposed for Solana, and as utility for the SOL coin, however, this is yet to be implemented in any meaningful way, and the final say still rests with Solana Labs.
Factors Influencing Solana’s Price
Those wondering “Will Solana go up” must take multiple factors inside and outside the Solana ecosystem into account when looking to answer this question. Here we’ve summarized the major factors affecting the SOL price, and any Solana price predictions that are important to consider when deciding if Solana is a good investment.
🌎 Wider Market
Cryptocurrencies are their own asset class and what affects one is likely to affect another. There is also no cryptocurrency that wields a greater influence than Bitcoin, and movements in Bitcoin’s price are likely to define market momentum for a long time to come.
🧑⚖️ Regulations
SOL is currently labeled as a security by the SEC, and this will affect its ability to attract institutional usage in the USA, and maybe other countries. There is also the regulation of the overall crypto market that needs to be taken into account, with very few countries having a framework for these unique assets to operate in. As these frameworks are implemented prices will react accordingly, with moves and their direction dependent on how favorable these regulations are.
🔌 Outages
While the most recent network outages haven’t affected the Solana price, their continued occurrence, especially after the implementation of multiple validator clients on the network, could signal that the PoH concept is not viable. It could also deter institutions and businesses from relying on it due to its unreliable nature.
🖥️ Demand for Decentralization
The Solana blockchain is quite centralized, with a high validator setup cost—stretching into tens of thousands before you’ve even bought the necessary SOL, purportedly 45,000+ SOL. As time moves forward, and blockchains become more mainstream, the public could favor decentralized solutions that are independent of the institutions that have failed them in the past—not a good thing for Solana.
🗺️ Solana’s Roadmap and Developments
There is no definitive roadmap for Solana, and this makes it difficult for investors to get excited about new developments before they happen. However, as developments are announced and then rolled out we can expect the market to react accordingly.
Solana Price Predictions by Other Experts and Analysts
With Solana’s increasing popularity, as a result of its resurrection in 2023, many analysts have stepped forward and offered their Solana price predictions for others. Here we’ve collated a wide array of these together to provide diversity as you read through our Solana price prediction.
Jake Gagain’s Solana Prediction
On X (Twitter) the cryptocurrency content creator and investor Jake Gagain predicts that Solana will hit highs of $750 in the next bull run.
Tyler Hill’s Solana Prediction
As a guest on the My Financial Friend YouTube channel, Tyler Hill, from Tyler Hill Investing predicts that Solana will hit $669 in this bull run but states that $2,230 is technically not off the cards as it is the top of a Fibonacci retracement.
The Wolf of Crypto Street’s Solana Prediction
On the X social media platform, the Wolf of Crypto Street predicts that Solana will hit a high of $500 in 2025.
VanEck’s Solana Prediction
The VanEck investment management firm provided a report on the future of digital assets based on a base, bull, and bear scenario. This report predicts lows of $9.81 by 2030 in the most bearish scenario, and highs of $3,211 by 2030 in the most bullish scenario.
Bottom Line for Solana Price Prediction
Solana faced some serious setbacks in 2022, but its great revival in 2023 and continued success through 2025 have demonstrated its resilience. By this time of writing, the network remains in the top 10 most important currencies, supported by advancements like the Firedancer project and a rise in token launches.
Despite challenges such as periodic network outages, the SEC labeling SOL as a security, and concerns over centralization, users continue to be attracted to Solana’s low fees and fast transactions. Solana’s close connection with big companies means it could fare very well once crypto regulations start taking shape around the globe.
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References
- Solana Promises “Detailed Post-Mortem” After 17-Hour Outage (Bloomberg)
- US SEC crackdown on Coinbase, Binance puts crypto exchanges on notice (Reuter)
- SEC Identifies 16 Crypto Tokens as Securities in Kraken Lawsuit (Bitcoin)
- Bitcoin Jumps to $30K, Then Dumps, as False Spot ETF Approval Report Circulates (CoinDesk)
- Solana Back Up Following Major 5-Hour Outage (CoinDesk)
- Solana Whitepaper (Solana)
- Liquid Staking TVL Rankings (DeFiLlama)
- Solana outage caused by a previously identified bug, devs say (Blockworks)
- Solana Uptime (Solana)
- Solana Analytics (SolScan)
- Top Blockchains (DappRadar)
- Total Value Locked All Chains (DeFiLlama)
- Explore Developer Data (DeveloperReport)
- Blockchains by NFT Sales Volume (CryptoSlam)
- Solana’s Regulatory Momentum and ETF Potential: Timing the Catalyst-Driven Alpha in 2025 (AInvest)
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