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Price · USD$91.94
Market cap$54.26B
Volume · 24h$2.76B
Change · 24h-3.21%

SOL / USD

Price history

Updated 3 Nov, 03:14 UTC

27 Oct 2026 – 3 Nov 2026

Token supply
Circulating
590,206,274 SOL
Total
636,883,272 SOL
Newsroom · last 7 days3Published in this category
Newsroom archive43All dates · unprotected stories
Tracked releases · 180 days20Selected public repositories only
Latest newsroom story30 Oct 2026Publication date · UTC

THE BRIEFING

Solana, at a glance.

THE DEFI FOOTPRINT

Capital tracked on Solana

$5.44BTotal value locked · USD
$6.57BDaily observations · USD
4 OctRange low: $5.34B2 Nov

TVL is separate from token price and market capitalization. Observed · 03 Nov 2026, 03:15 UTC.

THE CHRONOLOGY

What happened. What came next.

198 matching entries · Page 10 of 10

Newsroom15:23 UTC · Published

False CZ Surfing Rumor Sparks Meme Token Surge

A fabricated story claiming Changpeng Zhao went missing in a Dubai surfing accident on May 24, 2026 triggered a wave of low-value meme tokens across Solana and BNB Chain. The episode showed how quickly misinformation can become on-chain activity, turning a false…

Newsroom15:16 UTC · Published

Solana Begins Alpenglow Validator Testing Ahead of Major Consensus Overhaul

The Solana network began community validator testing of the Alpenglow upgrade, formally SIMD-0236, moving one of the chain’s most consequential consensus changes into live validation environments. Validators approved the proposal in September 2025 with 98% support, giving the upgrade a strong governance…

Newsroom01:15 UTC · Published

Solana Developer Growth Challenges Ethereum as Usage Surges

According to a Syndica report, Solana is drawing more new developers than Ethereum and has expanded its share of active builders from 6% in 2020 to 23% by 2026. The shift comes alongside surge-level network usage on Solana, which processed 25.3 billion…

Newsroom18:48 UTC · Published

Solana’s enterprise SDK aims to cut integration friction

Solana has introduced its Solana Developer Platform (SDP), an API-first framework launched to make on-chain payments and token issuance easier for institutional users. The platform is designed to replace fragmented infrastructure with standardized modules that banks, payment providers and other enterprise teams…

Newsroom16:46 UTC · Published

Solana Mobile begins SKR token airdrop to Seeker phone users

Solana Mobile began distributing SKR tokens to Seeker smartphone users and eligible developers on January 21, 2026, releasing roughly 1.96 billion SKR in an initial airdrop. The program is positioned as a decentralization and incentive-alignment initiative for the mobile Web3 stack, aiming…

Newsroom14:18 UTC · Published

Solana Mobile to Airdrop 1.8B SKR Tokens to Users, 141M to Devs

Solana Mobile is set to distribute an initial launch tranche of 2,000,000,000 SKR tokens from a 10,000,000,000 total supply, with claiming and staking opening on January 21, 2026. The intent is to bootstrap participation across its mobile Web3 stack by putting tokens…

Newsroom14:11 UTC · Published

XRP And Solana Volatility In 2025 Was Twice As Bumpy As Bitcoin’s

In 2025, XRP and Solana posted realized volatility roughly double Bitcoin’s, keeping liquidity gaps visible even as large ETF inflows arrived. The practical takeaway for trading desks, corporate treasuries, and institutional counterparties was straightforward: institutional adoption did not automatically translate into altcoin-style…

Newsroom22:42 UTC · Published

Helium expands to Brazil amid DePIN push; ‘Mambo WiFi’ tie unconfirmed

Helium’s expansion into https://thechainobserver.com/tag/brazil/Brazil is framed as part of a broader DePIN rollout rather than a named “Mambo WiFi” partnership, for which public evidence is lacking. The company’s Latin America strategy centers on Helium Plus and on-chain scaling designed to make large-scale…

Newsroom21:35 UTC · Published

Record Outflow Hits Solana ETFs as 21Shares’ TSOL Bleeds $42M

Solana ETFs recorded a record outflow while 21Shares’ TSOL ETF posted a $42 million net loss, signaling rapid capital withdrawal from Solana-linked exchange-traded products. This sharp movement reflects accelerated redemption pressure across Solana-focused investment vehicles amid limited access to granular flow data.…

All published, unprotected stories in this project’s category are available through these pages. Official publications cover the last 180 days of our tracked sources. Publication entries use publication dates. Market entries use the source observation time, with one record per UTC day.

BENEATH THE HEADLINES

The observations, in context.

DeFi total value locked

$5.44B
$6.57BDaily observations · USD
4 OctRange low: $5.34B2 Nov

Observed · 02 Nov 2026, 15:15 UTC. Price and protocol coverage can affect USD totals.

BUILD & SHIP

Published project updates.

Software publications from the repositories we track. Release counts do not measure developer numbers, commit activity or project quality. Publication dates are not activation dates.

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READ THE CONTEXT

About this dossier.

Solana · SOL

This dossier follows the project through our published coverage and the observations available for its verified identity. It updates as new information enters our collections.

Assets, networks and protocols are different entities. We do not assign a host network’s activity to every token issued on it.

Last observed in the daily selection: 03 Nov 2026 00:07 UTC. Leaving the top 50 does not remove this dossier or its news archive.

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Identity references supplied by CoinMarketCap · checked 31 Oct 2026. Repository publications cover only our selected sources.

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