This Miserable Altcoin Refuses To Die: Solana’s Bizarre Q3 Comeback?

Perhaps, dear reader, you have heard the name Solana whispered at the musty tables of your uncle’s dacha—a token, radiantly hopeful, trembling on the edge of importance, like the neighbor’s unfortunate violinist son before a family recital. Such is the talk: the price pantomimes hesitation, moving neither up nor down, like a cat pondering whether to leap from the fence.

Solana’s Tired Waltz Within a Dreary Rectangle

Not long ago—fifteen percent ago if you listen to the optimists—Solana gathered its price coat, dusted off $140, and declared, “I will return.” For months it had flirted with neglect at $95, old Bitcoin and Ethereum wagging their fingers sternly from their own table. Yet now, emboldened by market recovery (or a lucky cosmic sneeze), it squirmed towards $140, as if meeting an old love at the fish market.

At the height of its fever, Solana reached $293, but has since fallen down the stairs—landing 63% below, clutching its shin and muttering oaths. Yet, our little protagonist rose again, clambering up through $120 and $130 until, one week ago, it hammered repeatedly at $140, only to be shooed away.

A market observer, pensive and possibly bored, noted Solana had been pacing sideways in its cage—$145 to $157, like a dog hoping the door will suddenly open. Should it break free, some say it may soar upward, or at least wander into the neighbor’s yard. Downward, though, the path is strewn with the $136 support, and below that, the dark woods of $100-$120—a place no altcoin likes to admit it visits.

But, as the analyst Ali Martinez declared, Solana scribbles the “cup and handle” pattern—a technical formation favored by the poetic and desperate. A rally may follow, or just another round of coffee and staring wistfully out the window. ☕️

Bullish Breakout or Just More Waiting? 🤔

Alex from AMCrypto, who hasn’t lost hope and probably never will, assures us the downtrend has “ended” because Solana escaped a seven-day “falling wedge” (we assume this is a positive thing; charts and wedges being what they are). Maybe we imagine Solana as a small mouse, darting out from under the cheese wedge, aiming for the crumbs at $170-$180, or perhaps the cheese wheel itself, a new all-time-high somewhere in Q3 or Q4.

Consider, too, the immense “utility” of this plucky altcoin. Why, it surpassed all layer 1s and layer 2s in DEX volume! Companies, flush with optimism or something stronger, are even raising money to scoop up more Solana—the sort of sensible strategy one follows after a third vodka.

The $150 level, says trader Lluciano_BTC, is “a strong hold.” This is true in the same sense an old estate with a leaky roof and creaking floorboards can be a stronghold—sound until the next rainstorm. With the uptrend “just getting started,” who’s to say whether the resistance at $170 is the promised land or merely another gust of winter wind?

As things currently stand—pending further disappointment or elation—Solana struts at $149, up a staggering 1.1%. In some quarters this is called progress. In others, Tuesday.

Solana's exhausting journey
Another chart, more hope

And so, we wait—half-expecting a rally, half-expecting a letter from our aunt about her rheumatism, but mostly expecting nothing at all. Such is the way of things. 🚬

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2025-04-30 14:12