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Solana is tightening near $76 as traders watch for a breakout from long-term resistance after months of weakness. While one chart points to a potential move toward $170 and beyond, another argues $SOL has already formed its cycle bottom and could eventually climb above $1,000.

Bitcoin soared to $68,310.0 (+5.46%), Ethereum broke through the psychological $2,000 mark, and Solana climbed 6.50% to $81.994, triggering a massive $1.22 billion cascade of short-position liquidations across the crypto market in just one hour

Crypto-linked stocks also joined the rally, with BMNR, MSTR, CRCL and COIN shares all posting double-digit gains in intra-day trade. Prabhjote Gill·Stocktwits Published Aug 19, 2026   |   12:17 PM EDT

Solana spent years being defined by memecoin volume, and $3.73B in tokenized real-world assets is starting to change that label. ChatGPT AI predicts that the shift carries price higher, and the price prediction targets $150 to $190 by the end of 2026, with $165 as a realistic base case.

Solana (SOL) has become the first major public, permissionless blockchain to carry Moody’s Ratings credit assessments in a machine-readable format. The milestone comes through a new integration between Moody’s Ratings and Alphaledger, a tokenization platform built for institutional fixed-income assets, announced Wednesday

Add to Google Preferred Sources Cash App, the mobile payments platform owned by Block, has partnered with crypto payments infrastructure provider MoonPay to expand its digital asset offerings beyond bitcoin and USDC. Eligible U.S. users can now use their Cash App balances to purchase ether, Solana, XRP, and USDT through MoonPay’s checkout system, and fund…

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has floated the idea of expanding $SOL’s supply, paying for a company with incremental tokens, then using the acquired business’s revenue to buy and burn $SOL. The posts sketch a tokenomic cycle, but leave its issuance and acquisition mechanics undefined.

Currencies38594 Market Cap$ 2.27T-0.23% 24h Spot Volume$ 19.31B-1.49% DominanceBTC56.56%+0.19%ETH10.11%+0.91% ETH Gas0.04 Gwei Altcoins NewsWeb3 Aug 18, 2026 7min read bySimeon forBlockchainReporter

Bitcoin held near $64,250 on Wednesday, up marginally on the day and 1% on the week, while a global selloff in chip stocks left crypto largely untouched.

The CLARITY Act, a US crypto market-structure bill, has only a 10% chance of passing before the November midterm elections, The Block reported.