Solana SOL
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CM Profile: Solana
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about SOL, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.03% and 0.04%, on 9 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold SOL. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 9 OctoberNothing we measure moved much this week: exchange depth on Kraken, trading volume, reported supply and price are all within their usual range.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell SOL
Selling $100,000 of SOL into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coinbase SOL/USD | 0.03% | $99,966 | 2026-10-09 |
| Kraken SOL/USD | 0.04% | $99,964 | 2026-10-09 median of 26 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps SOL on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Solana is
Solana is a high-throughput blockchain launched in 2020 by Anatoly Yakovenko, built around a straightforward bet: instead of moving activity to secondary layers, make the base chain fast enough to handle it directly.
It combines proof of stake with a mechanism called proof of history, which timestamps transactions before consensus so validators spend less time agreeing on ordering. In practice this delivers very low fees and near-instant confirmation, which is why Solana became the home of high-frequency trading, NFT activity and memecoin speculation.
The cost of that design is concentration and fragility. Validators need powerful, expensive hardware, so there are fewer of them than on more modest chains. The network suffered repeated outages through 2021 and 2022, halting entirely for hours at a time — an unthinkable failure for Bitcoin or Ethereum. Stability has improved substantially since, but Solana's history is a genuine trade-off of decentralisation and resilience for speed, not a free win.
What Solana can do
Selling $100,000 on Coinbase lost 0.03% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 9 October 2026
SOL can be staked from your own wallet by delegating it to a validator. The validator never controls your coins. It keeps a commission from the rewards, and unstaking takes a few days.
Source: Solana: staking · checked 2 October 2026
SOL has no maximum. New SOL is issued on a schedule that began at 8% a year and falls 15% each year until it reaches 1.5%.
Source: Solana docs: inflation schedule · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
About the asset
Solana has no token contract — it is the native asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
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Solana data synced 77s ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell SOL.