Solana Coin price

🔥 Solana’s $100 Breakout Is Here — But the Bigger Story Is Just Starting Solana price has decisively broken above the $100 mark, extending its strongest monthly advance in years as institutional access, ETF activity and changing tokenomics converge around SOL. The breakout comes after months of resistance below the psychological level, putting the $110-$120 region firmly back on traders’ radar. 🔸 Schwab’s SOL Expansion Broadens the Institutional Access The latest move coincides with Charles Schwab’s decision to add Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink to Schwab Crypto in the coming months. The brokerage began rolling out direct Bitcoin and Ethereum trading in May, and the planned SOL addition expands its digital-asset offering to three of the largest cryptocurrencies outside BTC and ETH. The significance is the distribution channel: Solana is moving closer to investors who already operate within a traditional brokerage environment rather than requiring them to use a crypto-native exchange. ETF activity is providing a separate indication of institutional demand. U.S. Solana-linked products have recorded sustained inflows, while Bitwise’s BSOL staking ETF posted a record $126 million in daily trading volume on August 27, taking seven-day turnover to about $500 million. 🔸 Solana’s Supply Curve Is Becoming Part of the Investment Case The demand-side developments are being matched by a potentially important change to $SOL’s future supply. Solana validators have been voting on SGP-0002 and SGP-0003, proposals that would accelerate disinflation and increase the amount of transaction-related fees permanently removed from circulation. SGP-0002 would increase the annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%, bringing Solana toward its 1.5% terminal inflation rate considerably faster and reducing projected issuance by about 18.9 million SOL over six years. SGP-0003 would introduce a resource-based fee that is burned, with estimates suggesting daily SOL burns could rise from roughly 600-800 to around 7,500-9,000 SOL under current activity levels. $SOL

Solana’s proposal to double its annual disinflation rate has cleared a governance vote with 67% support, placing the network on course to reduce projected $SOL issuance by 18.9 million tokens over six years. Solana inflation proposal narrowly clears required vote Solana’s official governance dashboard showed that SGP-0002, called Double Disinflation, finished voting with 176.29 million SOL in favor, representing 67% of the participating stake. Another 66.19 million SOL, or 25.16%, opposed the proposal, while 20.63 million SOL, or 7.84%, abstained. Voting participation reached 60.7%, representing 433.49 million SOL and exceeding the one-third quorum required under Solana’s governance rules. Under the Solana governance process, a proposal passes when at least one-third of network stake participates and two-thirds of all participating stake votes in favor. Abstentions count toward both participation and the total used to calculate support, leaving SGP-0002 only slightly above the required 66.67%. The result provides a stake-weighted mandate to proceed with faster disinflation. It does not immediately reduce SOL issuance because an SGP establishes the network’s preferred direction, while a Solana Improvement Document specifies the technical changes required to carry it out. SIMD-0550, written by Helius contributors Lostin and 0xIchigo, would increase the rate at which SOL inflation declines each year from 15% to 30%. Rather than cutting the current inflation rate in half at once, the proposal would make inflation fall twice as fast from its level when the change becomes active. According to the SIMD-0550 specification, Solana would reach its existing terminal inflation rate of 1.5% in about 2.8 years, compared with 5.7 years under the current schedule. The authors estimate that the change would remove 18.9 million SOL from projected issuance over six years, or about 2.6% of the supply expected under the present schedule. Faster disinflation still requires a technical rollout Although the governance dashboard labels SGP-0002 as finalized, SIMD-0550 remained under “Review” in Solana Foundation’s improvement document repository at the time of writing. The document’s feature field also did not identify a completed implementation or an activation schedule. Before mainnet activation, validator clients must add and support a feature gate called double_disinflation_rate. The technical document says the feature would activate at an epoch boundary, with the faster schedule applying to rewards from the following epoch. Developers designed the change to keep issuance continuous at activation, according to SIMD-0550. Solana would re-anchor its inflation formula at the activation slot, preventing an immediate drop in the rate or a retroactive change to rewards already earned. Because inflation rewards affect Solana’s bank capitalization and bank hash, every validator client must calculate the new schedule in the same way. A difference between implementations could cause nodes to arrive at conflicting network states, making the proposal a consensus-level change rather than a simple adjustment to validator settings. The technical document said the feature gate must remain in client software permanently so nodes replaying Solana’s history can apply the correct inflation rate before and after activation. Rewards from completed epochs would remain unchanged. Solana previously considered SIMD-0228, which linked emissions to staking participation instead of following a fixed reduction schedule. The proposal failed to reach quorum in March 2025 after validators and other participants raised concerns about staking income, validator economics and the complexity of the model. SIMD-0550 uses a fixed schedule that does not respond to changes in staking participation. The authors said the design would preserve a predictable inflation path while avoiding a sudden reduction that could place immediate pressure on validator revenue. Resource-fee proposal fails to reach two-thirds support Alongside SGP-0002, Solana voters rejected SGP-0003, the Resource and Inclusion Fee proposal, despite 61.14% participation. The final tally showed 53.9% support, 18.92% opposition, and 27.18% abstentions. Support therefore fell almost 13 percentage points below the two-thirds threshold. SGP-0003 asked validators and delegators to support SIMD-0553, which would replace Solana’s flat base-fee model with a 2,500-lamport inclusion fee and a separate charge based on the resources requested by each transaction. Validators would receive the inclusion and priority fees, while the protocol would burn the full resource-based portion. Solana currently charges a base fee of 5,000 lamports per signature, split equally between burning and payment to the block-producing validator, according to the network’s documentation. Priority fees go entirely to validators. The SIMD-0553 fee model proposed three resource-fee stages. Using May 2026 network activity, its authors estimated daily burns of 1,500 to 1,800 SOL at the first stage, 3,750 to 4,500 SOL at the second, and 7,500 to 9,000 SOL at the final rate. Solana currently burns about 648 SOL per day through its flat fee. Even at the highest proposed rate, the document estimated that the added burn would equal about 0.5% of supply annually against an inflation rate of roughly 3.8%. SIMD-0553 therefore did not project that the fee model alone would make SOL a net-deflationary asset. Transaction costs would also have varied according to the requested network resources. The proposal estimated that a simple validator vote could cost 12.3% less, while one zero-priority Pump.fun swap used as an example could face an increase of 3,150%. Applications setting compute limits well above their actual needs would pay more because the fee would use requested resources rather than the amount ultimately consumed.

Bitcoin is hovering around $78,000-$79,000 today after briefly breaking above $80K. The market is taking a breather — and that's normal after a +23% weekly rally. Solana, on the other hand, is showing strength, trading around $100-$102 after a 5% gain yesterday. It's up over 35-40% from its mid-August levels around $74-$77 — a clear sign that SOL is leading the altcoin recovery. The Fear & Greed Index hit 74 earlier this week before cooling to 65 — still in "greed" territory, which means caution is wise, but sentiment is improving. My grid bot keeps running within its range, buying dips and selling rips. No emotions, just execution. Patience over hype — that's what works in this market.

Solana touched $103.50 yesterday but got rejected and pulled back to $97 today. Classic profit-taking after a 26% weekly rally — nothing unusual. Key levels to watch: reclaiming $100 with volume could open the door to $115. Losing $92–$97 support would shift focus back to $87. My grid bot keeps running within its range, buying dips and selling rips. No emotions, just execution. Patience over hype — that's what works in this market.$SOL