Solana Price

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Above you can see the current Solana price in an interactive chart. By default it shows the last 24 hours, expressed as a percentage change. Cryptocurrency trading never stops. While stock exchanges such as the Nasdaq or the London Stock Exchange have fixed opening hours, Solana trades around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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SOL price in euro and dollar

The widget below shows additional information about the Solana price: performance over the past week and month, the current market capitalization and the highest and lowest price of the past 24 hours.

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Note: the price may differ slightly from the SOL rate shown at the top of the page. This is because two different data suppliers are used.

The history of the Solana price

Solana was conceived in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko, a former senior engineer at Qualcomm. Together with his colleague Greg Fitzgerald he founded Solana Labs with a clear goal: build a blockchain that is fast, cheap and scalable without compromising decentralization. The network officially launched in March 2020.

The technical foundation of Solana is a hybrid combination of two consensus mechanisms: Proof of History (PoH) and Proof of Stake (PoS). Proof of History embeds a cryptographic timestamp into transactions before they are processed, allowing validators to agree on the order of events without extensive back-and-forth communication. The result is a network capable of processing tens of thousands of transactions per second with sub-second finality. Transaction fees typically cost a fraction of a cent, making Solana accessible for high-frequency and micro-transaction use cases.

Solana’s first listing price was below one dollar. The network rapidly grew into one of Ethereum’s most serious competitors in the DeFi and NFT space. Its combination of speed and low costs attracted developers and users who were priced out of Ethereum during periods of high gas fees.

One challenge that has followed Solana through its history is network reliability. The blockchain has experienced multiple outages, raising questions about its stability. Despite this, the ecosystem continued to expand in depth and diversity.

2021

2021 was the breakthrough year for Solana. At the start of the year SOL was trading around $2, but the network grew explosively. The rise of NFT projects, DeFi protocols and platforms such as Raydium and Serum attracted massive capital and users. By November 2021 Solana reached a then all-time high of $259, driven by broad institutional interest and the general crypto bull market. The year ended at around $170.

2022

2022 was a brutal year for Solana, harder than for most other cryptocurrencies. The collapse of FTX and its sister company Alameda Research in November hit Solana particularly hard, as both held enormous amounts of SOL. Forced selling drove the price from around $80 at the start of the year to a low of $8 in December, a decline of more than 90%.

2023

2023 was the year of Solana’s comeback. The SOL value opened around $10 and climbed steadily as investors rediscovered the network. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March renewed interest in decentralized alternatives. Anticipation of spot Bitcoin ETF approvals in the US drove broader market sentiment higher in the second half of the year. Solana closed 2023 at around $84, a gain of over 740% on the year.

2024

2024 was a year of strong momentum for Solana, with a total annual gain of around 127%. The approval of the first spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US on January 10 was the major catalyst early in the year. Solana benefited from improved sentiment and reached new highs in the first quarter.

The ecosystem flourished throughout 2024. Pump.fun, a platform for launching memecoins, caused an explosion of on-chain activity. Solana grew into the most active blockchain for memecoin launches and at times processed more daily transactions than all other major networks combined.

The biggest move of the year came in November, when Donald Trump’s election triggered an explosive rally across the entire crypto sector. SOL reached a yearly high of over $237 in November. The year closed at around $190, a gain of more than 125%.

• January: SOL opened the year at $84 and closed at around $91, a gain of 8%. The approval of the first spot Bitcoin ETFs on January 10 gave the broader market a significant boost.
• February: A strong rally pushed the price from $91 to around $120, a gain of over 32%. Growing DeFi and NFT activity on the Solana network supported the move.
• March: The price continued climbing to around $190, a rise of 58%. Solana reached new yearly highs as market optimism remained elevated.
• April: A correction to around $155, a decline of 18%, followed the earlier gains. The Bitcoin halving also took place in April, which initially prompted profit-taking.
• May: A modest recovery to around $165, a gain of 6%. Market sentiment stabilized after the April correction.
• June: A pullback to around $145, a decline of 12%. The summer months brought more volatility and uncertainty.
• July: A strong rebound to around $183, a rise of 26%. On-chain activity picked up and sentiment improved.
• August: A sharp decline to around $135, a fall of 26%. Broader macroeconomic concerns weighed on the crypto market.
• September: A slight recovery to around $131. The market searched for stability after August’s turbulence.
• October: SOL rose from around $152 to $167, a gain of roughly 10%, benefiting from the traditionally strong Uptober month.
• November: The election of Donald Trump on November 5 triggered an explosive rally. SOL surged from around $160 to over $237, the strongest month of the year in absolute dollar terms.
• December: A correction to around $190 followed the November rally, a decline of roughly 20%. The year ended with an annual gain of over 125%.

2025

2025 was an extraordinary year for Solana, featuring a new all-time high in January followed by a series of sharp corrections and a strong mid-year recovery. The SOL price opened the year at $190 and on January 19 reached the absolute all-time high of $294.87. This record was partly driven by President Trump taking office and signing executive orders in support of the crypto sector from his first day.

The optimism was short-lived. Trade tensions sparked by new tariff measures from the Trump administration in February weighed heavily on risk assets. By the time the market bottomed in April, Solana had fallen more than 60% from its January peak. That correction was significantly deeper than Bitcoin’s roughly 10% drawdown over the same period, underlining the higher volatility of SOL compared to the largest cryptocurrency.

From April onward, a recovery took hold. The Solana ecosystem continued to grow, with the signing of the GENIUS Act in the US in July providing a legal framework for stablecoins, which was a major positive for the network. Pump.fun became the first application on Solana to generate over $1 billion in revenue. In September, Galaxy Digital tokenized its publicly listed shares on the Solana blockchain, the first time a major listed company moved its equity records onto a public ledger for near-instant settlement.

In the fourth quarter, sharp corrections eroded the summer’s gains. Profit-taking, sales from large holders and macroeconomic uncertainty pushed SOL lower through November and December. The year ended at around $125, well below the January peak. By late 2025, the first spot Solana ETFs in the US had launched, with products from Bitwise (BSOL) and Fidelity (FSOL). Total inflows into Solana ETFs exceeded $1 billion in early 2026.

US regulators, including the SEC and CFTC, issued joint guidance classifying Solana as a digital commodity, placing it alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum. This significantly reduced regulatory risk for SOL.

• January: SOL opened at $190, reached the all-time high of $294.87 on January 19 and closed the month at around $213, driven by Trump’s inauguration and executive orders supporting the crypto sector.
• February: A sharp correction. The price dropped from $213 to around $149, a decline of over 30%. Uncertainty around trade policy and profit-taking weighed on the market.
• March: The decline continued to around $124, a further drop of 17%. Global trade tensions continued to pressure risk assets.
• April: SOL briefly touched the year’s low of around $97, before recovering to close the month at approximately $150, a gain of 21%.
• May: The rally continued to around $165, a gain of 10%. Improved market sentiment and institutional buying supported the price.
• June: A slight pullback to around $148, a decline of 10%. The market consolidated after the strong recovery.
• July: An explosive move, with SOL briefly exceeding $200 before closing the month at around $178. The signing of the GENIUS Act gave the market a meaningful additional impulse.
• August: A correction to around $160, a decline of 10%. Profit-taking after the July rally.
• September: Solana briefly reached $250 before closing the month at around $230, a gain of 44% from August. Strong ecosystem developments and institutional demand drove the move.
• October: A sharp decline to around $168, a fall of 27%. Broad profit-taking and macroeconomic uncertainty pushed the price lower.
• November: The decline continued to around $138, a further drop of 18%. The momentum of early 2025 had fully faded.
• December: SOL closed the year at around $125, a modest additional decline of 9%. The year ended more than 57% below the all-time high of January, but still 48% above where 2024 had started.

2026

The new year brought further pressure. Solana opened 2026 at $125 and dropped to around $105 in January, a decline of 16% from December.

February delivered a hard blow. The same large-scale leverage liquidation event that hit the broader crypto market in early February pushed SOL to a 52-week low of around $68. A partial recovery followed, but a geopolitical escalation in the Middle East at the end of the month slowed the rebound. The month closed at around $80.

In March, a gradual recovery is underway. Solana has climbed back toward the $90 to $95 range from its February lows, though macroeconomic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions continue to cap the upside. The month is not yet complete.

• January: SOL fell from $125 to around $105, a decline of 16%. The broader market correction that began in the fourth quarter of 2025 continued.
• February: A severe correction driven by mass liquidations in the crypto market, compounded by geopolitical tensions at the month’s end. SOL touched a low of around $68 before closing the month at approximately $80.
• March: A cautious recovery is taking shape. SOL is currently trading in the $90 to $95 range. The month is not yet complete.

Solana historical prices

The table below shows the historical Solana prices in euros for the past week.

How is the Solana price determined?

Like all traded assets, the Solana price is determined by the balance between supply and demand. If more people want to buy than sell, the price rises. If sellers outweigh buyers, the price falls. Buyers and sellers across all major exchanges together form the market rate.

What makes Solana’s price dynamic particularly interesting is the direct link between network activity and demand for SOL. Every transaction on the network requires a small amount of SOL as a fee, and validators who secure the network stake SOL to earn rewards. When activity on the network spikes, for example during periods of intense memecoin trading or major DeFi activity, demand for SOL increases accordingly. This makes Solana’s price more directly tied to actual usage than many other cryptocurrencies.

Regulatory developments also play a significant role. The joint SEC and CFTC guidance classifying Solana as a digital commodity, combined with the approval of spot Solana ETFs, has substantially reduced the regulatory risk associated with SOL and opened the market to a much wider class of institutional investors.

The price shown on this website is an average across all major exchanges, which means it may differ slightly from the rate on any specific platform.

Solana price prediction

Nobody can predict the Solana price with certainty. What has changed meaningfully in recent years is the quality of the infrastructure surrounding the asset.

Solana has established itself as one of the most actively used blockchains in the world, supporting a thriving ecosystem of DeFi applications, NFTs, memecoins, tokenized equities and real-world asset protocols. Pump.fun’s milestone of generating over $1 billion in revenue demonstrates the platform’s capacity to attract and sustain high-value commercial activity.

The regulatory classification of SOL as a digital commodity by US authorities, combined with spot ETF approvals, has created conditions for institutional participation at a scale that was not possible before. Companies such as Forward Industries have adopted Solana-focused treasury strategies, holding large positions in SOL in a similar way to how Strategy approached Bitcoin.

The tokenization of publicly listed equity on Solana, pioneered by Galaxy Digital in 2025, represents a genuinely new category of use case, blurring the boundary between traditional finance and on-chain settlement.

At the same time, competition remains real. Ethereum and its Layer 2 ecosystem continue to attract significant developer activity. Solana has also historically experienced network outages that have raised questions about reliability at scale. Whether the network can sustain its growth while addressing these challenges will be a key factor in its long-term value.

One thing is certain: the Solana price will remain volatile. It can rise or fall quickly and sharply. Staking your SOL is one way to earn a yield while holding, but it does not protect against price movements. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Never invest more than you can afford to lose.

What do you need to take into account with the Solana price?

As 2025 made clear, a drop of more than 60% from an all-time high in the course of a single year is not unusual for Solana. The same year also produced a new record price. This level of volatility requires a strong stomach and a clear understanding of the risks involved.

A distinctive feature of Solana compared to Bitcoin is that its price is more directly connected to on-chain activity. If the network is booming and applications are attracting users, demand for SOL tends to follow. If the ecosystem slows down or suffers an outage, the price can come under pressure for reasons that have nothing to do with the broader crypto market. This makes Solana a more active investment to monitor than a simple store-of-value asset.

As always: never invest more money than you are willing to lose.

How to invest in Solana?

For more background on investing in cryptocurrency, explore our knowledge base. Take the time to read and compare the different platforms, understand the fees involved and make a decision that fits your own situation.

Our page explaining where you can buy Solana is a good starting point. Always check whether the exchange you choose is properly licensed. Platforms operating in Europe should hold a MiCA license, which ensures they meet regulatory requirements and that your funds are protected.