{"id":34450,"date":"2023-12-24T06:52:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T10:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/?p=34450"},"modified":"2023-12-24T06:52:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T10:52:51","slug":"solana-surges-above-117-as-meme-coin-craze-extends-market-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/2023\/12\/24\/solana-surges-above-117-as-meme-coin-craze-extends-market-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana Surges Above $117 As Meme Coin Craze Extends Market Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The native cryptocurrency of Solana continued a spectacular climb that has already lasted three weeks by breaking beyond the $110 mark on Sunday morning. This is a strong demonstration of resilience.<\/p>\n<p>The price of SOL has surged, reaching a level not seen since the night before Terra collapsed a year and a half ago. This coincides with a substantial uptick in meme coin activity in the cryptocurrency space, which is helping to increase the platform\u2019s acceptance and appeal.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Solana Surges: 400% Rally Sparks Crypto Renaissance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The remarkable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tekedia.com\/banks-like-jp-morgan-and-citibank-are-investing-billions-of-dollars-in-blockchain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rise of Solana<\/a> over the last six months has been nothing short of spectacular, as the cryptocurrency has seen an incredible 400% rally.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, Coingecko data indicates that SOL is holding a fluctuating position in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$110\u2013$117 price range<\/a>, up 21% over the past seven days and sustaining a strong 60% increase over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason for the current increase in Solana\u2019s value is the industry\u2019s general rebound in cryptocurrency. A considerable rise in market capitalization and a revival of market sentiment have characterized the whole digital asset space\u2019s upward trend.<\/p>\n<p>The market capitalization of the token as a whole has increased by an astounding 40 percent, which suggests that investors are once again feeling confident and interested in the digital asset field.<\/p>\n<p>Th<a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/chain\/Solana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">e total value of tokens locked on Solana<\/a> applications also increased concurrently, reaching levels last seen in July 2022 with a rally to $1.3 billion from $400 million in November.<\/p>\n<p>SOL\u2019s year-to-date gains have reportedly increased to over 830% thanks to these factors, with the majority of the growth occurring in the last two months alone. The network\u2019s TVL was last at this height in October 2022.<\/p>\n\n<h2><strong>Solana: On-Chain Triumph, $120 Target<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The price action on Sunday brought an end to weeks of frenetic trade that had propelled the Solana blockchain to the top of the list for on-chain activity, at least momentarily. DefiLlama reports that decentralized exchanges located in Solana are getting close to Uniswap\u2019s trading volumes, which amount to billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a notable increase in demand for the network thus far this month. The chain\u2019s daily count of active addresses reached a year-to-date high of 1.26 million on December 18, according to an evaluation of network activity.<\/p>\n\n<p>As interest in Solana grows, attracting developers and investors alike, the blockchain\u2019s thriving ecosystem and its function as a hub for speculation should soon boost SOL into the much-coveted $120 level.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of increased activity in the Solana ecosystem and increased speculative interest in the cryptocurrency market provides a convincing story for the continuous increase in SOL\u2019s value.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image from Shutterstock<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p>The native cryptocurrency of Solana continued a spectacular climb that has already lasted three weeks by breaking beyond the $110 mark on Sunday morning. This is a strong demonstration of resilience.<\/p>\n<p>The price of SOL has surged, reaching a level not seen since the night before Terra collapsed a year and a half ago. This coincides with a substantial uptick in meme coin activity in the cryptocurrency space, which is helping to increase the platform\u2019s acceptance and appeal.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Solana Surges: 400% Rally Sparks Crypto Renaissance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The remarkable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tekedia.com\/banks-like-jp-morgan-and-citibank-are-investing-billions-of-dollars-in-blockchain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rise of Solana<\/a> over the last six months has been nothing short of spectacular, as the cryptocurrency has seen an incredible 400% rally.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, Coingecko data indicates that SOL is holding a fluctuating position in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$110\u2013$117 price range<\/a>, up 21% over the past seven days and sustaining a strong 60% increase over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason for the current increase in Solana\u2019s value is the industry\u2019s general rebound in cryptocurrency. A considerable rise in market capitalization and a revival of market sentiment have characterized the whole digital asset space\u2019s upward trend.<\/p>\n<p>The market capitalization of the token as a whole has increased by an astounding 40 percent, which suggests that investors are once again feeling confident and interested in the digital asset field.<\/p>\n<p>Th<a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/chain\/Solana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">e total value of tokens locked on Solana<\/a> applications also increased concurrently, reaching levels last seen in July 2022 with a rally to $1.3 billion from $400 million in November.<\/p>\n<p>SOL\u2019s year-to-date gains have reportedly increased to over 830% thanks to these factors, with the majority of the growth occurring in the last two months alone. The network\u2019s TVL was last at this height in October 2022.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Solana: On-Chain Triumph, $120 Target<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The price action on Sunday brought an end to weeks of frenetic trade that had propelled the Solana blockchain to the top of the list for on-chain activity, at least momentarily. DefiLlama reports that decentralized exchanges located in Solana are getting close to Uniswap\u2019s trading volumes, which amount to billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a notable increase in demand for the network thus far this month. The chain\u2019s daily count of active addresses reached a year-to-date high of 1.26 million on December 18, according to an evaluation of network activity.<\/p>\n<p>As interest in Solana grows, attracting developers and investors alike, the blockchain\u2019s thriving ecosystem and its function as a hub for speculation should soon boost SOL into the much-coveted $120 level.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of increased activity in the Solana ecosystem and increased speculative interest in the cryptocurrency market provides a convincing story for the continuous increase in SOL\u2019s value.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image from Shutterstock<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34453,"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34450\/revisions\/34453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}