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Solana is a high-performance layer 1 blockchain for smart contracts and decentralized applications, built to keep every app and asset on one shared global state instead of splitting activity across rollups or shards. SOL, its native token, pays transaction fees, secures the network through staking and gives stakers a say in protocol governance. Solana matters because it is one of the few chains that tries to scale at the base layer, which makes it a common home for high-frequency trading, stablecoin payments and consumer apps that need fast, cheap transactions.
The official Solana website and Solana Docs cover the protocol in depth, and the original design is set out in the Solana whitepaper.
Solana was founded by Anatoly Yakovenko, with Raj Gokal as co-founder. Yakovenko's whitepaper, "Solana: A new architecture for a high performance blockchain", introduced Proof of History as a way to order events without constant node-to-node coordination. The network produced its first block on 16 March 2020, launching as "mainnet beta".
Key milestones since then:
The Switzerland-based Solana Foundation supports the ecosystem, while client software is built by independent teams such as Anza (Agave client) and Jump Crypto (Firedancer).
Solana combines several design components:
Proof of History (PoH) A verifiable sequence of hashes acts as a cryptographic clock, so validators agree on the order of events without exchanging timestamps for every message.
Proof of Stake consensus Validators stake SOL, vote on blocks and take turns as leader according to a schedule that is fixed for each epoch. Today votes run through TowerBFT; Alpenglow's Votor mechanism is designed to replace it with a two-stage voting procedure targeting finality of roughly 150 milliseconds.
Parallel execution (Sealevel) Transactions declare which accounts they read and write, so the runtime can execute non-conflicting transactions in parallel across CPU cores.
Leader forwarding (Gulf Stream) Transactions are forwarded to upcoming leaders before the current block is finished, which cuts confirmation latency and mempool pressure.
Fees are simple and predictable. The base fee is 5,000 lamports per signature (one lamport is 0.000000001 SOL), split 50% burned and 50% to the validator. An optional prioritization fee, priced per compute unit, goes 100% to the validator and helps transactions land during congestion.
SOL is used to:
Supply policy: SOL has no maximum supply. Inflation started at 8% a year with a 15% annual disinflation rate, heading to a long-term rate of 1.5%. SGP-0002, passed in 2026 with 67% support, raises the disinflation rate to 30% a year, so the 1.5% floor arrives sooner; the Solana Foundation projects about 18.9 million fewer SOL issued over six years. Half of every base fee is burned, which offsets part of new issuance.
Compared with Ethereum, which scales mainly through layer 2 rollups, Solana keeps execution on the base layer and accepts heavier validator hardware in exchange. Against Move-based chains like Sui and Aptos, Solana has a longer production history and a larger DeFi base, while those chains use newer object and resource models. Avalanche takes a different route with separate application-specific L1s.
Security comes from staked SOL: validators with more delegated stake get more leader slots and more voting weight, and a supermajority of stake must agree to finalize blocks. Client diversity (Agave, Firedancer and Frankendancer) reduces the chance that one software bug halts the network, which was the root cause of some past outages. The Slope wallet incident of August 2022, which drained about 9,231 wallets, was a wallet software flaw, not a protocol failure, but it shows why key management matters as much as consensus.
Solana is the main test of whether a single, monolithic chain can serve global-scale trading and payments. Its steady cut in slot times, a second independent client and the Alpenglow redesign make it one of the most actively engineered base layers in crypto.
SOL trades on most large centralized exchanges and on-chain through Solana DEXs and aggregators. Common pairs include SOL/USDT, SOL/USDC and SOL/USD, with availability depending on your region.
SOL spot markets are live on:
Check any address or transaction on Solana Explorer.
Track Solana live price, chart, market cap, and volume in real time. Practice mock trading and demo trading for Solana on CoinRithm before using real money.
Use a crypto paper trading account to demo trade Solana with real-time prices, AI trade feedback, and trading leagues. Test strategies, learn risk management, and build confidence before trading Solana with real money.
Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Solana is $108.55 with a 2.51% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $508,060,152 representing a 70.00% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Solana is $63,945,162,537, ranking #7 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Solana is $63,945,162,537, calculated using circulating supply because the maximum supply is unlimited.
Circulating: 589,106,516. Total: 635,659,366. Max: ∞.
In the last 24 hours, Solana traded between a low of $107.20 and a high of $113.34.
SOL/USDTTether USDT108.55 USDT
The Nasdaq-listed company now holds about 2.59 million SOL, but its weekly purchases keep shrinking.
StoneX lifts SECZ price target to $18 from $12, citing new revenue from the Securitize Stocks tokenized trading platform on Solana.
The fund will charge a 0.60% annual management fee, adding another option alongside ChinaAMC’s Solana ETF, which held $8.58 million at the end of August.
The proposed $3-per-security offer targets 95% of eligible shares and warrants, with an expected condition that SOL’s closing price remains above $100 during the offer period.
DFDV added 22,070 SOL last week, lifting holdings to 2.59 million SOL, as its CHAD preferred stock hit record highs despite a selloff.
Anchorage Digital Bank issues the OSL-branded stablecoin, which has about $1.29 billion in circulation. USDGO lending markets are planned next.
