Solana (Sol) quotes at $ 240, a level not seen since February 2025. Institutional investment is one of the reasons explaining the good moment of sun. The solana cryptocurrency (Sol) reached a new financial milestone: for the first time, its market capitalization exceeded 130,000 million dollars. In the following graphic provided by CoinmarketCap you can see how the capitalization of the Solana market throughout its history has grown:
Historical graphic of the market capitalization of Solana (Sol). Source: Coinmarketcap. The market capitalization of a cryptocurrency represents the total value of all its coins in existence And it is calculated by multiplying the current price by the total amount available in the market, as Cryptnoticia explained. It is a key metric that reflects the position of an asset and the size within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. This is important to clarify it, since some readers might ask why Sol marks an AT in market capitalization, although it does not reach new maximums in the price of each unit. Currently, Solana It is negotiated at $ 240, 18% below its historical maximum of $ 294reached in January 2025. The lag is explained by the inflation of the currency: Sol emits new units at an accelerated pace and without a maximum limit (unlike, for example, Bitcoin whose supply will never exceed 21 million units). This can be seen in the following graph provided by Trading Different, where the black line represents the price of sun, while the blue line shows the sustained growth of the supply of currencies, which already exceeds 500 million coins in circulation. This increase shows the inflationary model of the network.
Solana’s supply has shown sustained growth throughout its history. Source: Trading Different. The truth is that Sol is positioning himself as one of the main protagonists of this upward cycle, mainly for the growing institutional fever for the asset. Currently, 13 companies that quote on the stock market have accumulated 8.9 million sun, the equivalent of $ 2,130 million, a volume that grew 7% in the last month.
