Solana price prediction at $122 before the Frankendancer shutdown: what it means for your staked SOL

Solana traded at around $122 on Friday afternoon, reclaiming the $120 level it had slipped below on Thursday. The question that will decide the coming weeks, however, is not in the chart but in an announcement from Jump Crypto: the validator client Frankendancer loses its support as soon as the consensus upgrade Alpenglow is switched on on mainnet. Anyone who has staked Solana therefore needs to know which software is running on the validator their own coins are delegated to. First the hard numbers on the price itself. According to CoinGecko data, SOL stood at $122.09 on October 2 at 2:41 p.m. German time, and the range over the preceding 24 hours ran from $116.75 to $123.55. Kraken showed $122.26 a few minutes later, Coinbase the same value and 108.71 euros. Market capitalisation came to roughly $71.9 billion, which is rank seven. Trading volume over 24 hours was worth about $4.6 billion. Jump Crypto ends Frankendancer support with the Alpenglow launch Frankendancer is a hybrid. The client combines the networking layer of Firedancer, developed by Jump Crypto, with the consensus code of Agave, the client maintained by Anza. That mixture has been running on mainnet since September 2...