A solana price prediction is only worth your time when something on the chain actually changes, and this week something did.  On September 23, Solana pushed Alpenglow onto public testnet, cutting transaction finality from 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds, per crypto.news, with SOL already up about 25% in a month, per KuCoin. That pairing, a live upgrade and a month of gains, frames everything below.