What's stopping SOL from going mainstream and skyrocketing in price

[pawanjain]

Solana network is capable of handling all types of transactions and its slowly being adopted by institutions too.
But then what's stopping it from skyrocketing in price ? Right now, it's going for laid back rally just staying in the range around $75.
Is it because people are still worried about past network outages and centralization of validators ?
What do you guys think is the main blocker here for a real explosive breakout to new ATH for SOL ?
Is it the tokenomics or may be competition from ETH or just overall market sentiment holding it back ?

[Charles-Tim]

Solana was $8 in December 2022 when the bear market of that time was about to end, but Solana in this bear market was over $70 right now. Is that not good?

Cryptocurrencies are also in the bear market and you expect solana to increase when bitcoin is almost 50% below its all-time high? Most of these coins are following bitcoin price.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

What do you guys think is the main blocker here for a real explosive breakout to new ATH for SOL ?

Nothing is the blocker, the token is cooling off from last year price rally, SOL surged to a new all time high of $295 in the month of January last year and after which, the price fall to $96 before pumping to $253 again around September last year, most of those token has been on the dip since late months of 2025, and there's no way they won't fall when Bitcoin is also in the bearish season. What Sol is experiencing the bear season, probably the price will surge again during the next bull season of Bitcoin.

[IShishkin]

Solana network is capable of handling all types of transactions and its slowly being adopted by institutions too.
But then what's stopping it from skyrocketing in price ? Right now, it's going for laid back rally just staying in the range around $75.
Is it because people are still worried about past network outages and centralization of validators ?
What do you guys think is the main blocker here for a real explosive breakout to new ATH for SOL ?
Is it the tokenomics or may be competition from ETH or just overall market sentiment holding it back ?

Here is the reverse question:
How "capability of handling all types of transactions" and other things are stopping Solana from going back 8$ as it already happened in the past?

[o48o]

Solana network is capable of handling all types of transactions and its slowly being adopted by institutions too.
But then what's stopping it from skyrocketing in price ? Right now, it's going for laid back rally just staying in the range around $75.
Is it because people are still worried about past network outages and centralization of validators ?
What do you guys think is the main blocker here for a real explosive breakout to new ATH for SOL ?
Is it the tokenomics or may be competition from ETH or just overall market sentiment holding it back ?

We are in near bottom of a long bear market and you are asking what's the reason for SOL specifically?

There's nothing wrong with sol, it's just a part of bear market like majority of the altcoins.

And what do you mean by adoption exactly? What would that look like other then this? Because from where i am standing it looks like SOL is part of the top altcoins and 5th on the marketcap list if we exclude stablecoins.

[JeromeTash]

Maybe because the altcoin season, what we were all used to never happened this round?
Even the memecoin boom did not do so much to its price, as there were so many other alternative chains where memecoins could be created from, so the attention was not only on solonas but also on other chains

[DanWalker]

Solana network is capable of handling all types of transactions and its slowly being adopted by institutions too.
But then what's stopping it from skyrocketing in price ?
What do you guys think is the main blocker here for a real explosive breakout to new ATH for SOL ?

It's not a direct cause-and-effect.
There is no rule that the value of SOL holders will increase in the same proportion as network usage increases.


Solana_july_2026_update
Look at this, I can see that Solana's Real Economic Value last month was $19.1M.
But token-holder net income was negative at that time.



That is, there is a gap between the economic activity of the network and the economic capture of SOL. Again, the Solana community is debating among themselves about supply-side pressure. So if institution, stablecoin, RWA and apps grow but value capture goes the other way, then SOL price may remain sideways for a long time despite impressive network growth.

[Curious T]

According to you, what price do you expect it to be? Crypto is in a bear market, so you shouldn't expect prices of coins to be high. After all, it's demand that increases price, so how do you expect the price to increase when the demand is low? For a coin that has a circulation supply of 582 million, I think it's not doing too badly. I would complain when it gets to a bull season, and the price did not at least get to $150 at its peak. There is also a lot of competition among altcoins. With so many altcoins to choose from, demand is often spread among different coins, and this affects the price of the coins. I believe this is one reason that has made altcoins not perform as well as they did in the past.