Crypto
Solana price chart
This chart tracks SOL/USD: the dollar price of one SOL token, Solana's native asset, from Coinbase's order book.
SOL trades continuously across multiple exchanges. This chart reflects Coinbase specifically, not a blended market-wide price.
Solana / US Dollar chart
COINBASE:SOLUSDSpot price on the Coinbase exchange.
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At a glance
| Full name | Solana (SOL) |
|---|---|
| Ticker/pair | SOL/USD |
| TradingView symbol | COINBASE:SOLUSD |
| Instrument type | Spot pair on the Coinbase exchange |
| Reference market | Coinbase |
| Quotation currency | US dollar |
| Market schedule | Continuous, 24/7 including weekends |
| Coverage | Global SOL spot market, as reflected on Coinbase |
| Status | Spot (not a futures, ETF or CFD) |
| Data delay | Coinbase's feed is typically real-time on TradingView, but prices differ slightly between exchanges |
What is Solana / US Dollar?
Solana is a blockchain built for high throughput and low fees, combining proof-of-stake consensus with a timestamping technique called proof of history to order transactions quickly.
SOL pays transaction fees, gets staked with validators to secure the network, and is used across Solana's ecosystem of decentralised finance and consumer applications.
How to read this chart
A rising line means SOL is gaining value against the dollar; falling means the opposite. Trading is continuous, with no weekly close unlike traditional exchange-listed markets.
Solana's network has had outages and performance issues over its history, sometimes alongside sharp price moves. Treat network reliability as separate from price trend. Prices also vary between exchanges, and SOL has been more volatile than many other assets.
What moves it?
- Network activity and outages
- On-chain transaction volume and the network's uptime record directly shape confidence in Solana as infrastructure.
- Validator economics
- Staking yields, and how concentrated or spread out validators are, affect both security perceptions and token supply dynamics.
- Ecosystem token launches
- New applications and token launches on Solana, including bursts of activity around decentralised exchanges, can drive demand for SOL as the base asset.
- Competitive positioning
- Solana is often benchmarked against other high-throughput blockchains; relative performance and developer adoption feed into sentiment toward SOL.
- Broader crypto risk sentiment
- Like other major tokens, SOL tends to move with overall crypto-market risk appetite alongside bitcoin and ether.
Why people watch it
Firms building on Solana, holding SOL for network participation, or serving its ecosystem track this price for planning and risk purposes. Others watch it as a gauge of interest in high-throughput blockchain infrastructure generally.
This page is informational and does not constitute investment advice.
Solana vs Ethereum
Solana and Ethereum are both general-purpose smart-contract platforms with different architectures: Solana prioritises high throughput and low costs on a single base layer, while Ethereum leans on separate layer-2 networks to scale.
Comparing SOL/USD with ETH/USD gives a rough sense of relative market confidence in these two approaches to blockchain scalability.
Frequently asked questions
What is proof of history?
A timestamping technique Solana uses alongside proof-of-stake to help order transactions quickly, part of its high-throughput design.
Has Solana had network outages?
Yes. Solana has had a number of publicly documented outages and periods of degraded performance since launch, separate from its token price.
Why does this page use Coinbase rather than another exchange?
Coinbase offers a widely used, publicly accessible SOL/USD feed on TradingView. Other exchanges may show slightly different prices due to fragmented liquidity.
Is SOL supply fixed?
No. SOL follows an inflationary issuance schedule designed to decline over time, subject to network governance, rather than a hard cap.
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Sources
Written and maintained by the StandardsDesk editorial team. Last reviewed 2026-08-06. The text here is deliberately evergreen: it is not rewritten every time the market moves, and no price or level is quoted anywhere outside the chart itself.
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