Solana (SOL) Price: Can the Alpenglow Upgrade Turn Around a 10% Weekly Drop?

TLDR Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade is scheduled for October 21 and targets transaction finality of about 150 milliseconds. SOL trades near $107.80, up 0.3% in 24 hours, but is down more than 10.5% over seven days. Alpenglow replaces TowerBFT with Votor, which removes validator vote transactions from blocks. SkyAI sold 1 million SOL worth $107 million and still holds another 1 million SOL, according to Lookonchain. The daily chart shows SOL broke below a rising channel, with support near $100. Solana’s SOL price is holding near $108 as the network prepares for its Alpenglow upgrade.

Source: CoinCentral