This yr was undoubtedly an excellent one for Solana (SOL), if we select any altcoin which is any cryptocurrency —moreover Bitcoin (BTC). Community exercise within the Solana ecosystem elevated by 83% final yr, and there are numerous causes for this, from the hype round meme cash to synthetic intelligence tasks, which additionally performed an necessary function within the first half of the yr, making the dynamics of Nvidia and SOL quotes extraordinarily related.
Within the final quarter of the yr, decentralized exchanges on Solana twice overtook opponents on Ethereum — for instance, on Nov. 22, the buying and selling quantity of the previous exceeded $100 billion.
There may be one factor facet through which the place Ethereum, because the altcoin king, nonetheless reigned over Solana, and that’s the launch of a spot Ethereum ETF — a software that was beforehand solely out there for Bitcoin. Whereas functions for the Solana ETF have been instantly made by issuers again within the spring, there may be nonetheless no such answer, and this yr will go with out one.
Solana 2025 prediction
Nonetheless, because it appears, 2025 could develop into the yr the market will lastly see an exchange-traded fund of the favored different cryptocurrency. At the least such a prediction was lately made by Nate Geraci, the president of ETF Retailer.
That is additionally the interval that almost all of crypto market members define for a Solana ETF, primarily based on the change of administration within the U.S., and specifically, the SEC.
The stakes are excessive as by no means earlier than for 2025, as aside from that, Geraci additionally highlighted the intriguing incontrovertible fact that the highest eight ETF launches of 2024 are actually all crypto-related, and embrace 4 spot Bitcoin ETFs, two spot Ethereum ETFs, and two ETFs on MicroStrategy shares, at present the second largest holder of Bitcoin. That is out of practically 740 new ETFs.
The demand for the continuation of crypto ETFs is certainly there, and the ball is now within the regulators’ court docket.