THIS POST IS FOR $SOL HOLDERS. We’ve seen this before: – $BTC pumped → ETF + institutional inflow – $ETH pumped → ETF + institutional inflow Now? → $SOL & $LTC (Next ETF approve) Since then I’ve been thinking about @solana a lot. It might seem quiet these days, but I just loaded my $SOL bag again. The real question is: are we underestimating how much $SOL has already won? Because if you step back, $SOL isn’t in a speculative phase anymore. It’s already doing: – More daily txs than every other chain combined with avg of 4M – $550M/month in real onchain demand – More DEX volume than Ethereum – They’ve got 7,600+ new devs in a year – A mobile stack scaling globally – A booming MEV economy via Jito – RWAs, DeFi, AI… all gaining traction on Solana first – 15+ months of uninterrupted uptime – And still charges less than a penny per tx That’s production-grade infra, and it’s not just retail either. Institutions are creeping in: – CME listed Solana futures – VanEck, Franklin, Galaxy filed for SOL ETFs – BlackRock’s tokenized funds are deploying on Solana – Even R3 (the enterprise infra giant) is moving infra over To add to the context, Polymarket gives it a 91% chance of ETF approval in 2025. You might fade a scarcity setup that’s easy to miss. – SOL burns fees, reducing supply over time – and as on-chain demand rises, so does the burn rate – pair that with long-term staking + institutional cold storage → You get the setup: rising demand, tightening float, and a price chart that might just snap If you told someone in 2022, post-FTX + SOL at $10, that this would happen in 18 months, they’d laugh. But it did quietly so now I’m asking myself: what happens if a spot ETF gets approved? What happens if Firedancer ships 1M TPS in Q4? I’m not saying $SOL is guaranteed to hit $500. But it doesn’t need to be a meme to run that far. It just needs to keep doing what it’s already doing. Fast, stable, adopted, and now… legitimized. Feels like the market still hasn’t priced in how real that is, this is one of those trades you don’t overthink.