The SOL price in reais with the time the quote was taken, a two-way converter, and an honest account of the speed, the cost and the outages.
Solana (SOL): R$ 546,4200, +6,46%.
Solana is a blockchain built around a single goal: handling a great many transactions quickly and for almost nothing. It confirms blocks in well under a second and charges fractions of a centavo, using a scheme its founders call proof of history — an internal clock validators agree on in advance, so they do not have to negotiate the order of every transaction as they go. That design decides what the network gets used for: trading that would be pointless if each order cost several reais, payments, and applications where a one-cent fee is the difference between viable and absurd. Keeping up demands expensive machines, so there are far fewer independent validators than on older networks.
That speed has had a cost the marketing rarely mentions: the network has stopped completely. There were halts in September 2021, in early 2022, in February 2023 and again in February 2024, lasting from a few hours to close to a day, caused mostly by floods of automated transactions or by bugs in the single software implementation every validator was running — which is why a second, independent client has been under development since. The price carries its own scar: Solana was heavily backed by FTX and Alameda, and when they collapsed in November 2022 SOL fell more than 90% from its 2021 high, to under ten dollars, before recovering over the years that followed.
The value at the top comes from CoinGecko, an average across exchanges, stored by a job that runs every half hour, with the moment of the quote beside it. The exchange you use will show something else: its own spread, its trading fee, and a withdrawal fee on top. Two further honest points. Ownership is concentrated — the foundation, early investors and the FTX bankruptcy estate all held large blocks, with release schedules that put coins on the market regardless of the price. And much of the activity behind the impressive throughput numbers is speculation on tokens created in minutes and worthless days later.
From CoinGecko, which averages the price across many exchanges, saved here by a job that runs every 30 minutes; the date and time of that quote are printed under the value. Press "Refresh rate" and your browser fetches the current one directly and rewrites the page. SOL trades every day, weekends included.
Because this is an average reference and an exchange sets its own prices. It quotes a buying and a selling price with a spread between them, charges a trading fee, and charges again to withdraw. A difference of a couple of per cent is normal, and larger on a small order.
Yes, more than once. Halts in September 2021, in early 2022, in February 2023 and in February 2024 took the network offline for hours at a time, the longest close to a day, each needing validators to coordinate a restart. The causes were mainly overload from automated transactions and bugs in the one client implementation everyone ran. There has been no comparable halt since, and a second independent client is being built to remove that single point of failure.
Because the design trades decentralisation for throughput. Solana processes transactions in parallel and expects validators to run high-specification hardware on fast connections, which keeps the cost per transaction near zero. The bill is fewer validators and a heavier dependence on everything working. In a rush, priority fees can still climb well above the nominal cost.
You can delegate coins to a validator and take a share of the rewards, and exchanges offer this in a single click. It is not free money: the reward comes largely from newly issued coins, which dilutes everyone who is not staking; delegated coins go through an unbonding period; and staking through a company makes you that company's creditor.
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