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Solana's developer experience should help it win the next cycle, because the chain with the most developers wins. The Anchor framework made writing Solana programs accessible to web developers, documentation has improved massively, and hackathons consistently draw thousands of builders. Developers go where building is easiest, and right now that is Solana. x.comÂ
Solana's real long-term edge is speed and low cost, not memecoins. DeFi protocols on Solana process more transactions a day than most layer-2 networks combined, Jupiter is one of crypto's most-used decentralized exchanges, and Marinade and Jito are building a staking ecosystem that works. Memecoins brought the attention, but the infrastructure keeps the builders. x.comÂ
Solana keeps grinding higher because it is the fastest chain in the space, with real usage, real volume and builders shipping constantly while the rest of the market argues over narratives. The chart projects a 37% next move. x.comÂ
Solana remains bullish through a mini onchain bear season because it keeps producing real innovation and novel products from really smart developers. Onchain activity is just as weak on Robinhood's chain and BNB, but once it picks back up, Solana's products and coins should rerate. x.comÂ
Solana has lost its moats: speed and retail mindshare carried it this cycle, and every narrative it was meant to own now has a stronger competitor. Memecoin attention is spreading to Robinhood, BNB and Base, Robinhood is coming for tokenized stocks, and Hyperliquid owns perps. Solana's perps did $8.9B last week, which Hyperliquid often does in a day. As more volume settles in its $15.5B of stablecoins, SOL matters less beyond gas. Pump.fun has sold about 4.8M SOL and expanded beyond Solana. … Show more
Solana is harder to fade because StonkFun's launchpad generated over $20 million in revenue in the last 30 days. SOL price action should follow. x.comÂ
Solana's financial activity is scaling through stablecoin volume and institutional tokenized funds. It reportedly processed $5 trillion in stablecoin volume in 2026, while JPMorgan Asset Management launched two tokenized money-market funds on Solana for qualified US investors through Morgan Money. x.com x.comÂ
Pump.fun monetizes by selling SOL to buy PUMP, favoring PUMP over Solana's native token. Over the long term, the two should flip, primarily because SOL is expected to fall to $12. x.comÂ
Solana is now a much larger coin and has already had its big growth phase, so Bitcoin should recover first. Solana moves about 1.35x as much as Bitcoin, so a 1.5x Bitcoin move implies roughly $195-$200, not the $234 level at Bitcoin's $125K high. Solana should still reclaim its old high later this cycle. x.com x.comÂ
Solana's recurring role as the starting and return point for on-chain seasons keeps its ecosystem at the center of crypto activity. Adam_Tehc's chart shows Solana at 77.8% of trading-terminal volume, consistent with that persistent pull. x.comÂ
Solana is struggling to sell blockspace, a commodity racing to zero, while heavily diluting holders. At this year's rate, fees come to about $300M against roughly $2.4B of newly minted SOL, and fees are down about 79% year over year amid competition from Ethereum, Base, Hyperliquid, Near and others. SOL is not money either, so neither a profitable-chain nor a monetary-premium bull case holds. Nasdaq earns 17x what Solana does while buying back about twice as much and issuing no shares. x.com … Show more
Solana's on-chain growth should soon show up in its price. Per @gemtoast, Solana has handled over 50% of daily crypto transactions for months and recently did about twice the rest combined. x.comÂ
