With the price of Solana (SOL) soaring as high as 7.8% Year-to-Date (YTD), analysts’ expectations are soaring, with projections as high as $750.
Resounding his bullish stance on Solana, Chris Burniske, a former analyst with Ark Invest, is optimistic that though Solana has impressed the market with a 408.96% growth in the past six months, its best days are ahead.
Solana has pared off some of its gains at the time of writing, dropping by 3.62% to $111.54. This bearish correction, which has shifted the coin’s market capitalization to $49,133,624,376, has not completely deterred SOL investors, with the trading volume jumping 3.93% to $2,252,624,397.
The Chris Burniske Projection
In his recent post on X, Chris Burniske gave a nod to a projection from an X user, Farid, who placed the price target for SOL at $750. While this price target is a far cry from where the coin is at the moment, Chris Burniske noted that the target seems standard.
Below projection is $SOL & $AVAX to ~3x previous ATH, $TIA as a first cycle wonder to $100B+ FD NV – seems standard to me 🫡 https://t.co/27RwtelSkX
— Chris Burniske (@cburniske) February 16, 2024
He noted that in the case of Solana especially, the target represents approximately 3x of the All-Time High (ATH) pegged at $260.06 that the coin recorded back in November 2021.
Many market analysts and firms like VanEck have previously weighed in on the price of Solana with more ambitious price targets in view. The premise hinges on the current projection into the growth of Solana and the revolutionary technology powering the ecosystem.
Solana is also an ambitious blockchain with innovations that are beyond the scope of its peers. It was the first Web3 entity to launch a Mobile Phone dubbed Saga, and it has a good record of adoption across the board.
Solana and Market Sentiment
Solana has a lot of promising updates within its ecosystem at this time, including the rapid embrace of its upgraded Chapter 2 Mobile Phone per the Preorder count hitting the 100,000 benchmark.
Despite this, its growth at this time may be attributed more to the spot Bitcoin ETF intrigue driving the price of BTC and the horde of altcoins alongside. Solana’s growth is particularly intriguing, seeing it had to battle an outage earlier this year.
Solana’s developers and community members are unrelenting in creating Dapps, memecoins, and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) that can further drive inclusion.
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