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Solana (SOL) price and market data
Layer 1 network · Proof of Stake
Short answer: Solana is a high-throughput smart contract blockchain built around a cryptographic clock called proof of history. The panel below loads its live price, market cap, volume, supply, and 24h/7d/30d performance from named public sources with the as-of time printed on it. The sections after it explain what Solana is and how it works, without quoting prices that would go stale.
What is Solana?
Solana is a high-throughput smart contract blockchain built around a single global chain rather than layers or shards. Its core technique, proof of history, is a cryptographic clock that timestamps events in sequence before validators vote on them. Because ordering is established in advance, the network can process many transactions in parallel and settle them in well under a second at fees far below one cent.
SOL pays those fees and secures the network through staking. Solana's speed made it a popular venue for trading, consumer applications, and stablecoin payments. The same design history includes several network outages in its earlier years, a record worth weighing against its performance claims.
How Solana works
- Proof of history sequences transactions with verifiable timestamps, reducing the back-and-forth validators need to agree on order.
- Validators stake SOL and vote on blocks; the Sealevel runtime runs non-conflicting smart contracts in parallel across many cores.
- New SOL is issued as staking rewards on a disinflationary schedule that started at 8 percent annually and declines toward a 1.5 percent long-term rate.
- Half of each transaction's base fee is burned, a small deflationary offset to issuance.
The risk, in plain terms
SOL has had severe drawdowns, and Solana's validator hardware requirements concentrate block production more than its validator count suggests.
Every figure on this page comes from the named public source printed beside it. If a feed fails, the panel says so instead of presenting old numbers as live. Read the methodology for how CryptosEyes sources market data, and the disclaimer before acting on anything you read here.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the current price of Solana?
The live panel at the top of this page shows the latest SOL price in US dollars, loaded in your browser from the CoinGecko public market API with the CoinPaprika public API as fallback. It refreshes about every two minutes while the page is open and prints its source and as-of time beside the figures. An aggregator price is a market-wide average across exchanges; a single exchange can quote slightly higher or lower at the same moment.
How is Solana's market cap calculated?
Market capitalization is the current price multiplied by the circulating supply, the amount of SOL in public hands as reported by the data source. Where the source publishes total and maximum supply, this page shows those beside the circulating figure so the gap is visible. Market cap values the circulating coins at today's price; it is not the amount of money anyone has invested in the asset, and it moves whenever either the price or the reported supply changes.
Is SOL a good investment?
CryptosEyes does not make that call for any asset. This page publishes market data with named sources and explains how Solana works, so you can judge it against your own research. The risk to understand first: SOL has had severe drawdowns, and Solana's validator hardware requirements concentrate block production more than its validator count suggests.
Market data only, not investment advice. Back to all crypto prices or Weekly Movers.