Solana trades near $77 ahead of its Alpenglow upgrade. Will SOL close above $80 before Aug 14?
100% of users predicted YES — the community missed this one. 1 predictions cast.
Solana's SOL token failed to close above $80 in the days leading up to Aug. 14, 2026, trading in a range roughly between $75 and $77 as the network prepared for its Alpenglow protocol upgrade. Price trackers showed SOL at approximately $76.41 on Aug. 13, 2026, with an intraday range of $75.35 to $77.07.
The token's price stayed subdued even as Solana prepared to roll out Alpenglow, a major protocol upgrade intended to cut transaction finality from about 12 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds, in stages between August and October 2026; a routing fault also caused a portion of staked SOL to go delinquent around Aug. 12, adding to near-term uncertainty around the token.
The community's "yes" probability of 100% did not match the actual outcome: SOL did not close above $80 before Aug. 14, meaning the market was highly confident in an outcome that failed to materialize.