Altcoins News
By Dan Saada
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Agave 4.2 and What It Actually Changes. Agave 4.2 did two big things at once. Storage costs dropped 90%, and transaction sizes expanded by…
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Price Levels Traders Are Watching. The chart setup is pretty interesting right now. Breaking past $90 wasn't trivial — that level had…
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What the Upgrade Means for Developers and Builders. The storage cost cut is probably the most underappreciated part of the Agave 4.2 rollout.
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Solana just got a lot cheaper to build on. The network slashed storage costs by 90% — from $0.16 down to $0.016 — following the activation of Agave 4.
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That's not just optimism. The price closed at $92.09 on the day, a 5.08% gain, after clearing $90 for the first time since May. The daily trading range ran from $87.55 to $93.38.
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Speed is also moving. Slot times are being cut from 400ms down to a target of 200ms. And there's a second upgrade coming — Alpenglow — which aims for a finality time of roughly…
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It's worth being clear about what finality time means here. At 150ms, Solana would be settling transactions faster than most people can blink.
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The chart setup is pretty interesting right now. Breaking past $90 wasn't trivial — that level had been a wall since May, and clearing it with volume matters.
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The $78 level is especially important. Solana's 100-day exponential moving average sits right there, and the price has struggled to reclaim it cleanly this month.
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The RSI is at 81.86. That's overbought. Not wildly so, but enough that a cooling period is probably coming at some point.
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More context: Bitcoin ETFs Surge with $606 Million as Price Breaks $76K Barrier
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Context matters here too. Solana peaked above $250 last September, then spent months grinding lower, hitting around $67 earlier this year.
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Some projects that were previously shelved or scaled back because of cost constraints now have a reason to revisit their plans.
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The expanded transaction size is the other piece. Bigger transactions mean more complex operations can happen in a single block.
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Whether all of this translates into sustained price performance depends on execution. Alpenglow still needs to ship. The 200ms slot time target still needs to hit.
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