Solana Price Prediction: Alpenglow Passes With 98% Validator Approval but SOL Still Sits 73% Below Peak While Pepeto Targets 100x to 300x

Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade passed governance with 98% validator approval, cutting transaction finality from 400 milliseconds to 150 milliseconds and eliminating validator voting fees, according to Phemex. The upgrade frees roughly 50% of network throughput previously consumed by on chain voting. Despite two game changing upgrades arriving in 2026, the solana price prediction faces the reality