Recently, the Solana network experienced its 11
th outage in the past 2 years, causing a stir in the crypto community. This network outage lasted nearly 5 hours, raising concerns about the stability of Solana blockchain platform
[1].
However, contrary to my prediction, investor confidence in the SOL token still does not seem to be affected too much. Even many of my friends are still looking for investment opportunities in SOL with the expectation that this currency will continue to grow in the new growth cycle.
I tried thinking of a few reasons why investors are still optimistic about SOL:
- Potential technology: despite many downtimes, Solana is very fast ~ 65k tps[2]. Technology is a powerful tool for marketing.
- Diverse ecosystem: Solana has many dApps in most fields of DeFi, NFT, GameFi, so it attracts many users[3]. Transaction fees on Solana are very low so everyone can participate and use the network easily.
- Support from large investors: Solana is backed by many large investment funds, Solana's brand is guaranteed[4].
- SOL price is at a low zone compared to the old ATH of 256 USD.
It's easy to understand that with strong reasons like these, investors will continue to trust and invest in SOL tokens, despite the network's uncertain quality. I'm really interested in the optimistic sentiment of investors in the crypto market: crypto operates on the blockchain, but even though the blockchain has problems, token prices continue to grow.
If you are SOL token investore, I'd like to know your views on Solana and SOL:
- Did the Solana incident impact your decision to invest in SOL?
- Are you really bothered by the failure of the Solana blockchain?
- Do you believe that in the uptrend in 2025, the SOL token price will still grow and will not be negatively impacted by Solana blockchain outages?
References:[1]
Solana outage was caused by infinite loop bug previously seen on devnet[2]
Solana (SOL): Scaling Crypto to the Masses[3]
Solana ecosystem[4]
Dealroom: SolanaSOL was one of my top investments in cryptocurrencies but the frequent network halts impacted me a lot.
My perspective is that a blockchain should never be halted at least not that frequent.
This is the reason why I sold my SOL and invested it in bitcoin and ETH.
At the same time, Solana is very potential because of the developments on it's blockchain and so it's not a bad idea to hold some of it in your portfolio.
In near future, I will try to hold at least few SOL so that I don't miss the boat.