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#7 by market cap
SolanaSOL
PRICE
▲+0.24%24h$0.00000000
LIVE· as of 03:37 UTC
Market Cap$0Rank #7
24h Volume$03.49% of mcap
FDV$08% supply locked
Circ. Supply0No max supply
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Solana
$80.55
$46.81B
EACH SOL WOULD BE WORTH
$2,182.23
$80.55 TODAY$2,182.23 AT TARGET
$1,000 invested$27,091.62
$10,000 invested$270,916.21
$100,000 invested$2,709,162.15
$79.77
$82.17
24 Hours+0.24%
7 Days+12.73%
30 Days+26.27%
1 Year-45.30%
All-Time HighAll-Time High: the highest price ever reached
$293.31
Jan 19, 2025
All-Time LowAll-Time Low: the lowest price ever reached
$0.5008
May 11, 2020
Project BriefEditorial
G.MARKETSHigh-throughput Layer 1 built for scale.
A monolithic proof-of-stake blockchain optimized for high transaction throughput and low fees, with a focus on consumer-facing applications and DeFi.
- Founded
- March 2020 (mainnet beta)
- Team
- Founded by Anatoly Yakovenko (ex-Qualcomm); Solana Labs leads protocol development alongside the Solana Foundation
- Category
- Layer 1 · High Throughput
Solana launched its mainnet beta in 2020 with a radically different design from Ethereum: a single high-throughput chain capable of processing tens of thousands of transactions per second, secured by a proof-of-stake consensus model paired with a verifiable delay function called Proof of History.
The chain has emerged as the dominant venue for memecoins, consumer dApps, and high-frequency DeFi due to fees that typically run a fraction of a cent. Major DEXes (Jupiter, Raydium), NFT marketplaces, and stablecoin issuers all maintain primary deployments on Solana.
The ecosystem includes Firedancer, an independent validator client from Jump Crypto designed to improve network resilience and decentralization. Phantom and Solflare are the dominant consumer wallets. The Saga and Seeker mobile devices represent the team’s bet on consumer crypto hardware.
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Smart Contract PlatformSolana EcosystemLayer 1 (L1)FTX HoldingsMulticoin Capital PortfolioProof of Stake (PoS)
Solana is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain designed for mass adoption by providing a fast, secure, and low-cost environment for decentralized applications. It distinguishes itself by scaling globally without the use of complex sharding or multiple layers, instead maintaining a single, unified ledger to avoid liquidity fragmentation. This architecture allows it to process thousands of transactions per second with sub-second finality, often at a cost of less than a penny per transaction. The network operates on a unique hybrid model that combines Proof of Stake with an innovation called Proof of History, which functions as a decentralized clock to timestamp transactions.