What is Solana?

Solana is a blockchain platform, often grouped with Bitcoin and Ethereum as a major cryptocurrency. The material tracks its market performance, comparisons to other major cryptocurrencies, and technical limitations relative to Ethereum.

• Oct 2025 - Brad Gerstner said that Solana, like Ethereum, was still under 4,000 transactions per second.
• Jun 2026 - Michael Howell included Solana in a basket of cryptos (60% Bitcoin, 30% Ethereum, 10% Solana) to analyze liquidity movements.
• Jul 2026 - Ryan Sean Adams said that Solana’s price was up about 15% versus 2% for Bitcoin and 3% for Ether.
• Jul 2026 - Ryan Sean Adams noted that a project chose not to launch first on Ethereum because block times are slow, preventing market makers from compliantly quoting needed prices.
• Jul 2026 - JTX said that on Solana, the average token hold time is less than a minute, with the upper end under 10 minutes.
• Jul 2026 - JTX said that Solana’s block size would increase from 60 million to 100 million within the next month.
• Jul 2026 - JTX noted that on some days, tokenized stock volume on Solana exceeded memecoin volume.