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

[programmer3666]

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.

I actually bought SOL on spot trading worth $1k at $73.40 since the last week of July. I am not stressing about the current price because I strongly believe it will pump before the year runs out. I have that confidence. The market is clearly not favorable to any coins right now . Bitcoin is annoyingly down by some wide percentage and coins like SOL is down as well, they are just obeying the law of gravity for now. Once the bullrun return SOL will surely rally high. The project has strong fundamentals, It is just a matter of time and I will be patient till then.

[Odusko]

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.

Taking cognisance of the price of solana in the last bear market of $8 and also punting the current price $70 aso which showns %775 increase from 2022 to 2026 this is an indication of how promising solana market value will be in the future, the demand from the network infrastructure will always Keep the value in the increasing capacity since alot of institutional investors will look in the way of the solo network to build their infrastructure on solo chain.

[o48o]

All of you are just focusing on the bear market and while that is not wrong but we have to look at the individual appreciation too.
We can't just say that just because its a bear market all the coins are bound to keep going lower.

Yes we can. And fundamentals mean squat when people buying and selling it are purely speculative investors / traders.

BTC and ETH have had their relief rallies in the bear market as well but that has not happened with SOL yet.
While the bear market is definitely one of the major reasons, I guess SOL should have at least appreciated a little in BTC pair.

Dude, what does this even mean? You you mean corrections? We are talking about altcoin bear markets where altcoins are more or less reacting to 4 year cycle. Can you show me from this chart when eth had a bullrun "relief" despite of the bear cycle?



Why don't we add sol to it while we are at it

[pawanjain]

Dude, what does this even mean? You you mean corrections? We are talking about altcoin bear markets where altcoins are more or less reacting to 4 year cycle. Can you show me from this chart when eth had a bullrun "relief" despite of the bear cycle?

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Why don't we add sol to it while we are at it

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This is the chart for BTC, ETH and SOL in last 1 year. If you look carefully, we can see that initially SOL was performing really well around October but then later it kept on declining.
Even after declining it still was competent enough but then later when BTC and ETH had some relief near April - May, SOL was still underperforming.
I am just saying that other than the bear market, there are some more factors which has made SOL underperform than it's competitors.