The Solana (SOL) token has risen in price by 50% over the past 4 days, soaring to the eighth place of the CoinGecko rating by capitalization.
On Monday, August 30, SOL set a new historical record value above $114.
Over the past month, the cryptocurrency has increased in price by 250%, since the beginning of the year - by more than 70 times.
On Monday morning, Solana exceeded the round $100 mark for the first time. In the late afternoon, the token overcame $110.
The last wave of growth of Solana began on August 27 after the announcement of the developers of the digital coin. On the project's Twitter page, a message appeared about the update, which will take place on August 31 and will introduce a new function in the Solana blockchain called "Ignition". The developers have not provided any more information about the update, however, according to Cointelegraph, "Ignition" may introduce a mechanism for burning tokens.
Token burning is the destruction of a certain number of tokens to reduce their number in circulation. This method is used to combat inflation and increase the value of cryptocurrency. All coin burning operations are recorded in the blockchain as transactions, so anyone can verify that the coins were destroyed.
Institutional interest is pushing the Solana rate to new highs. Significant capital is being invested in the ecosystem and the Solana platform is in the early stages of development. The project has a large community — over 84 thousand people in Telegram, and more than 250 projects have been launched on its blockchain.
Solana is a blockchain designed to support scalable decentralized applications (dApps). It has a maximum throughput of more than 50 thousand operations per second, while its main competitor Ethereum currently has a limit of no more than 30 transactions.
Nevertheless, despite the technological advantages, it is still premature to talk about the superiority of Solana over Ethereum. Critics point out that Solana is still working in the test network mode, which means that all services on its blockchain, including DeFi, are subject to failures.