How much is 1 SOL?
One SOL is worth $71.23 — the SOL-to-USD rate as of 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC, −2.41% over the past 24 hours. The figure on this page refreshes hourly from CoinMarketCap data.
BAKED FROM THE HOURLY RATE AS OF 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC · NOT A LIVE CALCULATOR
SOL vs. other Layer 1 coins
| Asset | 24H | 7D | 30D | 90D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solana SOL THIS PAGE | −2.41% | −4.48% | −11.90% | −15.45% |
| Bitcoin BTC | −0.75% | −2.84% | +1.68% | −20.55% |
| Ethereum ETH | −1.56% | −1.85% | +8.36% | −21.05% |
| BNB BNB | −1.89% | +1.55% | +3.22% | −6.82% |
AS OF 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC · DATA: COINMARKETCAP · DEEPER TINT = LARGER MOVE · 90D IS OUR LONGEST SNAPSHOT WINDOW
SOL price context
Solana's all-time high is $293.31, reached on January 19, 2025. At today's price of $71.23, SOL trades 75.7% below that peak. Its lowest recorded price was $0.5008 on May 11, 2020.
Over the past 30 days SOL has moved −11.90% and over the past 90 days −15.45%.
Circulating supply is 581,078,478 SOL , with no fixed maximum supply. SOL has no hard cap; inflation started at 8% annually and decreases ~15% per year toward a long-term floor of 1.5%, with staking rewards offsetting dilution for holders who stake. A large share of supply is staked, which keeps liquid float relatively tight.
Solana all-time high
The gap to the record
Getting back to $293.31 from here would take a 4.1× move — that multiple, not the percentage, is the honest way to read a drawdown. The figure above updates every hour as our price snapshot refreshes; the record itself is an editorial fact recorded from CoinGecko.
All-time low
Solana's recorded all-time low is $0.5008, on May 11, 2020 (CoinGecko). From that low to today's price is the other end of the same story — aggregators differ on launch-era data, so we name the source we cite.
Solana price history
Our sourced price record for Solana begins in 2021 — the coin may have traded earlier, but we list only years we can back with a citable source. Its all-time high is $293.31 (Jan 19, 2025), its recorded low $0.5008 (May 11, 2020), and it trades at $71.23 today. Every row below names where its figures come from.
Solana price by year
Rows from 2021 through 2023 are editorial records — each cites the source it was taken from. Rows from 2024 onward are computed from our licensed CoinMarketCap daily data; for those years, high and low are the highest and lowest daily closes in our series, not intraday extremes.
| Year | Open | High | Low | Close | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $40.50 | $260.00 | $20.18 | $169.88 | Coinbase (SOL-USD) |
| 2022 | $169.98 | $179.56 | $8.00 | $9.97 | Coinbase (SOL-USD) |
| 2023 | $9.96 | $125.97 | $9.68 | $101.69 | Coinbase (SOL-USD) |
| 2024 | $103.41 | $262.29 | $83.65 | $189.95 | Our CMC data |
| 2025 | $190.14 | $257.50 | $103.02 | $125.15 | Our CMC data |
| 2026YTD | $125.06 | $146.00 | $62.91 | $71.23 | Our CMC data |
What moves Solana's price
- On-chain activity share: Solana hosts a large fraction of crypto's retail trading (memecoins, consumer apps); DEX volume and active-address trends translate into fee burn and staking yield.
- ETF and institutional access: spot Solana ETF filings and launches extend the pattern set by Bitcoin and Ethereum products, and each regulatory milestone reprices SOL.
- Network reliability record: Solana's history of outages (largely resolved since early 2024) means uptime itself is a tradable narrative — incident-free quarters build the institutional case.
- Firedancer and client diversity: the second validator client, built by Jump, addresses the single-client risk that has been the main technical criticism of the network.
- FTX estate overhang: large locked-SOL holdings from the FTX bankruptcy sold at auction created scheduled unlock supply that the market tracks.
“Solana hosts a large fraction of crypto's retail trading (memecoins, consumer apps); DEX volume and active-address trends translate into fee burn and staking yield.”
About Solana
Solana launched in March 2020, founded by Anatoly Yakovenko of Solana Labs. Its architecture combines proof-of-stake with proof-of-history — a cryptographic clock that lets validators agree on transaction order without waiting on each other — which is how it achieves high throughput on one chain instead of pushing activity to layer-2s.
The network survived a near-death experience in the November 2022 FTX collapse (FTX and Alameda were its most visible backers) and rebuilt into the leading venue for retail on-chain activity, with an ecosystem spanning DeFi, DePIN projects, and consumer payments. Validator software is now maintained by Anza (a Solana Labs spin-off) as the Agave client, with Firedancer as an independent second client.
SOL tokenomics
SOL launched in 2020 with allocations to seed and venture investors, the team, and the Solana Foundation, plus public auction sales. Supply is disinflationary rather than capped: issuance began at 8% annually and declines toward a 1.5% floor, paid to stakers. Half of each transaction's base fee was historically burned; governance in 2025 shifted priority-fee economics toward validators (SIMD-96), a change that primarily affects validator revenue rather than total supply.
How to buy Solana
SOL trades on all major exchanges, including Coinbase, Kraken, and Binance. Holders can stake SOL by delegating to a validator from wallets like Phantom or Solflare without giving up custody, earning network inflation rewards in exchange.
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Solana FAQ
What makes Solana different from Ethereum?
Solana scales on a single chain using proof-of-history for fast ordering, targeting sub-second finality and sub-cent fees, while Ethereum scales through layer-2 rollups that settle back to the main chain. The trade-off is that Solana's approach demands much more powerful validator hardware.
How fast is Solana?
The network processes thousands of transactions per second in practice, with block times around 400 milliseconds and typical fees well under a cent — fast and cheap enough for order-book trading and consumer payments directly on-chain.
Does Solana still have outages?
Outages were a real problem from 2021 to early 2024, when a bug caused the last multi-hour halt. Since then the network has run without a full outage, and the independent Firedancer client is designed to remove the single-client risk behind several past incidents.
Can you stake SOL?
Yes — SOL holders delegate stake to validators directly from self-custody wallets, keeping control of their coins while earning inflation rewards. Most of the circulating supply is staked this way.
Who created Solana?
Anatoly Yakovenko, a former Qualcomm engineer, co-founded Solana Labs and published the proof-of-history whitepaper in 2017. The mainnet went live in March 2020.
What is Solana's all-time high?
Solana's all-time high is $293.31, reached on January 19, 2025 (source: CoinGecko).
How far is SOL from its all-time high?
As of 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC, SOL trades at $71.23 — 75.7% below its all-time high. Reaching the ATH again would require a 4.1× move. This figure refreshes hourly with our CoinMarketCap data.
What was Solana's lowest price ever?
Solana's recorded all-time low is $0.5008, on May 11, 2020 (source: CoinGecko). Aggregators can differ on launch-era data; we cite the source shown.
Will SOL reach a new all-time high?
We don't publish predictions. What can be said factually: SOL trades 75.7% below its all-time high, and this page tracks that gap with hourly-refreshed data.
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Price data: CoinMarketCap, refreshed hourly. Last updated: August 1, 2026, 19:21 UTC. Historical figures (all-time high/low) are recorded at page creation and reviewed periodically.
This page is factual information, not financial advice.