Is this bear market the right time to accumulate and position for the next bull run???
First, let’s talk about why I am optimistic about SOL’s fundamentals. The main reason SOL can achieve dozens of times gains in this bull market is that it has accurately tapped into the attention economy and the emotional consumption needs of this generation. In the future, it’s unlikely that everyone will get involved in complex DeFi financials; instead, Meme, social, and lightweight applications will emerge one after another. As humans become less anxious about survival itself and are more willing to spend on emotions, memes, identity, and a sense of participation, blockchain just happens to provide a financial engine for “a meme.” Currently, the best platform to support this is Solana. Technically, the SOL chain is designed for short, frequent, and fast transactions. High TPS, low Gas fees, and prioritized concurrency make the transaction experience closer to Web2. High-frequency small transactions are almost effortless, which is a necessity for Meme projects. More importantly, SOL has already gained a cultural first-mover advantage—there are people in the community constantly creating memes, spreading, and participating. Once this atmosphere forms, it’s hard to replicate. The rise of AI will actually strengthen this. The more AI replaces human production, the more time people will have to create, spread, and speculate. The fertile ground for memes will only grow. Of course, we can’t just look at SOL’s strengths; its risks must also be acknowledged: it is indeed more centralized. High node entry barriers, demanding hardware requirements, validation power concentrated in a few nodes and service providers; risks of centralization exist in clients, RPC, and the ordering layer. This is the price Solana pays for performance. If the infrastructure fails, the impact could affect the entire chain. In summary, I believe that in this bear market, SOL can still be accumulated in phases for the next bull run. When the price returns to around 50, it’s a good range for dollar-cost averaging. I don’t expect SOL to drop to single digits like in the 2022 bear market. The next bull market will likely feature another Meme + emotional-driven rally, and Solana will definitely not be absent.
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Is this bear market the right time to accumulate and position for the next bull run???
First, let’s talk about why I am optimistic about SOL’s fundamentals.
The main reason SOL can achieve dozens of times gains in this bull market is that it has accurately tapped into the attention economy and the emotional consumption needs of this generation.
In the future, it’s unlikely that everyone will get involved in complex DeFi financials; instead, Meme, social, and lightweight applications will emerge one after another. As humans become less anxious about survival itself and are more willing to spend on emotions, memes, identity, and a sense of participation, blockchain just happens to provide a financial engine for “a meme.”
Currently, the best platform to support this is Solana.
Technically, the SOL chain is designed for short, frequent, and fast transactions.
High TPS, low Gas fees, and prioritized concurrency make the transaction experience closer to Web2. High-frequency small transactions are almost effortless, which is a necessity for Meme projects. More importantly, SOL has already gained a cultural first-mover advantage—there are people in the community constantly creating memes, spreading, and participating. Once this atmosphere forms, it’s hard to replicate.
The rise of AI will actually strengthen this.
The more AI replaces human production, the more time people will have to create, spread, and speculate. The fertile ground for memes will only grow.
Of course, we can’t just look at SOL’s strengths; its risks must also be acknowledged: it is indeed more centralized.
High node entry barriers, demanding hardware requirements, validation power concentrated in a few nodes and service providers; risks of centralization exist in clients, RPC, and the ordering layer. This is the price Solana pays for performance. If the infrastructure fails, the impact could affect the entire chain.
In summary, I believe that in this bear market, SOL can still be accumulated in phases for the next bull run. When the price returns to around 50, it’s a good range for dollar-cost averaging. I don’t expect SOL to drop to single digits like in the 2022 bear market.
The next bull market will likely feature another Meme + emotional-driven rally,
and Solana will definitely not be absent.