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Solana price today is $100.35, -1.47% in the last 24 hours. Live chart, key levels, a simple technical read and the latest Solana news below.
Solana is holding above its 200-day moving average, so the bigger trend is still positive, but price is below the 50-day average, which shows the short-term trend is mixed.
The daily RSI is 36, showing weak momentum.
Funding is normal at -0.002% per 8 hours, so leverage does not look stretched.
For today, the first resistance is near $104.05 and the first support is near $100.56. A daily close above resistance or below support would show the next direction.
Classic daily pivot levels for SOL, calculated from the last completed daily candle.
Automatic summary from daily candles, updated every few minutes. Not financial advice.
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Solana (SOL) is trading at $100.35 on Binance futures, down 1.47% in the last 24 hours. The 24-hour range is $99.16 to $103.89.
Our technical read for Solana today is neutral. Solana is holding above its 200-day moving average, so the bigger trend is still positive, but price is below the 50-day average, which shows the short-term trend is mixed. This is an automatic technical summary, not financial advice.
Based on the last daily candle, resistance is near $104.05 and $105.71, and support is near $100.56 and $98.73. The daily pivot is $102.22.
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Mirae Asset Securities' Hong Kong unit issued six-month notes on the Solana blockchain under its $3 billion program. The move extends blockchain-based distribution to institutional investors. It may signal growing use of tokenized financial products that traders could follow.
Google has released its Multi-Party Compute system to a small group of users in private preview. Several major financial institutions are testing it, and Alphabet already uses it to protect its own Ethereum and Solana holdings. For traders, stronger custody security could make large institutions more comfortable holding crypto over time.
Jordi Visser, a former Morgan Stanley and Weiss executive, believes AI agents are increasing demand for crypto. He is also widening his holdings beyond Bitcoin, Ether and Solana. For traders, this is a view that crypto could outperform AI stocks, though it is one investor's opinion.
Solana researchers must now permanently burn 1 SOL for each bug submission. The change followed a monthlong contest that drew 809 reports, most of which AI is believed to have generated or written. For traders, the permanent burn removes SOL from circulation, and the spam problem shows how AI is straining network security work.
Solana made its slots faster with a final 200ms reduction, but Bitquery data suggests bots still snipe memecoins quickly. Outside buying within about 1.3 seconds reached 53%, compared with 52% in earlier samples. For traders, faster chain timing alone may not protect new memecoin buyers from bots.
Hong Kong has named the Nasdaq-listed Solana Company a strategic enterprise. The firm says it plans to set up Solana validator operations in the city. For traders, this points to official interest in Solana-linked businesses, but it does not by itself confirm any change in the Solana price.
Firedancer's bug bounty makes hunters burn 1 SOL even when their report duplicates an earlier one. A spring contest did allow eligible duplicates to earn rewards, and a retrospective ties some repeated findings partly to slowing down review. The SOL burn is a small, direct cost tied to the token, so traders may want to track it.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $635.6 million leave on Thursday, their largest outflow of the month. That pushed October's net flows back to a loss of about $176 million, and Ethereum and Solana funds also saw money leave. Steady outflows can signal weaker demand for these products, which traders often watch closely.
Andreessen Horowitz, known as a16z, is broadening its investment focus beyond crypto. It joins other crypto investment firms that are looking at artificial intelligence and other tech themes. For traders, this may signal that some big crypto backers are spreading their money into new areas.
A Solana trading bot reportedly turned $12,000 into $1.4 billion in trading volume, while fake liquidity spread across Raydium. An October 22 DEXScreener snapshot showed about $579 million in liquidity next to only 22.6 USDC, which shows how misleading a pool's displayed value can be. Traders should check actual pool depth before trusting headline liquidity or volume numbers.
Solana activated its new Alpenglow consensus system on mainnet on Oct. 21, replacing the older TowerBFT design. The network targets finality in about 150 milliseconds, and confirmed and finalized states now become the same. For traders, faster finality could matter if it makes Solana activity settle more quickly.
Solana has completed its Alpenglow upgrade, a new voting system designed to settle transactions in about 150 milliseconds. Faster settlement could shorten waits for payments and deposits on the network. Users can keep their existing wallets.
Solana has gone live with its largest network change since 2020, a new voting system. It targets settlement in about 150 milliseconds, which could shorten waits for payments and deposits. Users can keep their existing wallets, so no switch is needed.
Solana has gone live with Alpenglow, a new consensus protocol that replaces TowerBFT. TowerBFT had run the network since its 2020 launch, and the switch was made on the live network. Traders in SOL may watch this major change closely.
Solana has launched Alpenglow on its mainnet, its first major consensus upgrade. The goal is to cut finality time by 99%, so transactions can settle almost instantly. Faster settlement could make Solana-based apps more responsive, which may draw more users to the network.
Solana is set to launch Alpenglow on Wednesday, its largest network overhaul since 2020. The upgrade replaces the voting system Solana has used since then and targets roughly 150-millisecond finality. The launch follows months of testing that included a failed migration and a rollback.
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