Solana Uptick: Meta AI Predicts Price Target of $220-$300 by 2026

The Solana network is poised for significant upgrades following the successful governance vote on Alpenglow. Meta AI predicts that this upgrade will unlock new capabilities and reshape the network, potentially leading to a price target of $220-$300 by the end of 2026.

The current blockspace issue, where vote transactions consume 75% of Solana's capacity, is set to be resolved with Alpenglow. This upgrade is expected to cut finality from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds and strip out unnecessary vote transactions entirely.

Firedancer, another key infrastructure catalyst, has already started producing blocks on mainnet and is running on over 20% of validators after 50k blocks. It aims to lift transaction per second (TPS) towards 1 million in tests.