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Points of Focus:
- SOL recovered from a low of $72 on August 7 and traded at $75-$77 during the week.
- MoneyGram Ramps became available on Solana, with Rift as the first wallet integration.
- Jupiter released Lend v2, which allows the same capital to earn both loan interest and trading fees.
During the week of August 6-13, Solana paired technical price recovery with concrete product launches in payments and DeFi.
Network reliability reached a record high, but liquidity metrics and regulated product assets remained elevated.
The price movement occurred against growing stablecoin supply, renewed ETF inflows in a single session, and new on and offramp infrastructure.
Solana (SOL) price analysis
SOL was under pressure for the first part of the week of Aug. 6-13. The token traded near $73 early in the week, reaching its bottom of $72 on August 7. It recovered almost 7% from that low, reaching an intraday high of $77.36 on Aug. 10 before settling in the mid-$70s. On Aug. 13, it stabilized around $76.
The increase lifted SOL out of a five-week declining channel that had held down pricing since early July. The main resistance was concentrated between $78 and $80.
MoneyGram Ramps goes live on Solana
MoneyGram announced on August 11 that MoneyGram Ramps is now available on Solana. Through MoneyGram’s network, the API provides wallets, exchanges, and developers with direct access to cash-to-crypto and crypto-to-cash services. Rift became the first Solana wallet to integrate the service.
MoneyGram Ramps is located within the payments module of the Solana Developer Platform. The launch builds on MoneyGram’s previous work on other chains and adds a considerable fiat access point for Solana apps at a time when the network’s stablecoin supply is already $16.7B.
BREAKING: @MoneyGram Ramps is live on Solana.
60M+ customers, nearly 500,000 retail locations, 170+ countries. One of the world's largest payments networks is now a single API away for every builder on Solana. pic.twitter.com/TSOhIpBjvz
— Solana (@solana) August 11, 2026
Solana DeFi yield products expand
On August 10, Jupiter released Lend v2, expanding Solana DeFi yield products. The update allows borrowed positions and deposits to function as trading liquidity, providing the same capital to earn a share of swap fees and lending interest. Assets are automatically paired into correlated pools (stablecoins or SOL vs liquid staked SOL) using optional Smart Collateral and Smart Debt features.
According to DefiLlama data, Jupiter Lend had $1.6 million in fees and almost $1.9 million in deposits over the previous 30 days. Nearly $823M was in active loans.
Separately, Solstice Finance introduced strcUSX, a Solana structured product based on the economics of Strategy’s Nasdaq-listed STRC preferred stock. Users deposit Solstice’s USX token and get either a senior tranche or a junior tranche.
What makes them different is that the senior tranche, or SR-strcUSX, targets approximately 7% APY with a focus on income, while the junior tranche, or JR-strcUSX, targets more than 20% APY while absorbing initial losses. STRC currently pays a 12% annualized cash dividend on a semi-monthly basis, subject to board decisions.
Solana network reliability and liquidity
As of Aug. 12, Solana had gone 30 months without a network-wide outage. Notably, the latest big pause was on February 6, 2024. The streak includes periods of high usage and days with over 200M transactions.
According to Artemis data, stablecoin supply on Solana has increased by almost 11 times over the last three years, reaching $16.7 billion. In July, the network processed over $500 billion in gross stablecoin transfers. The real-world asset (RWA) value of Solana stayed above $3.7 billion after rising above $3.81 billion earlier this month.
🚨BREAKING: @Solana has maintained 100% uptime for 30 consecutive months without network downtime. pic.twitter.com/h9hRxcntE1
— SolanaFloor (@SolanaFloor) August 10, 2026
Solana marketplace and ecosystem activity
On Aug. 6, Rarible debuted a Solana marketplace, with Claynosaurz as its first featured collection. Access to a larger collection was labled as ‘Coming Soon.’ The move signals Rarible’s return to Solana following previous support in 2022.
The level of network activity remained elevated. Solana had already exceeded 1 billion weekly non-vote transactions, and app revenue in July was $82.9 million, which is the biggest monthly total since February, according to Lightspeed data. Tokenized equity volume and futures activity remained one of the network’s top sectors.
The market capitalization stayed around $40 billion. According to Santiment and SoSoValue data, US spot Solana ETFs saw net inflows of $8.8M on Aug. 10, the highest amount since May 12. The total net assets were close to $870 million.
This week, Solana made progress in terms of both infrastructure reliability and product breadth. Fiat on and offramps, new yield mechanisms, and persistent liquidity metrics arrived as the price rebounded from its recent low, but it still faced strong resistance near $77.
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