Friends who have been closely watching the market may have noticed that SOL is a bit uncomfortable on the 4-hour K-line. The price is stuck at $122.94, with a decline of only 0.58%, but the shape of that candlestick is telling a story — the trend is indeed starting to strain. The moving averages on the chart, the yellow and purple lines, are all trending downward, indicating a standard bearish alignment. In the short term, technical signals are not optimistic.

But an interesting thing is happening at this moment. Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana, recently released some predictions for 2026, and the first one is quite significant — the total market cap of stablecoins is expected to surpass $1 trillion. Think carefully about what this means. Stablecoins, in simple terms, are the connectors between the crypto world and traditional finance; they are the lifeblood of the entire ecosystem. If this scale truly reaches the trillion-dollar level, how large could the crypto market capacity become? As a leading public chain, Solana’s share of the pie can be imagined. More capital entering the market, more applications deploying, and ecosystem prosperity are just around the corner.

In addition to the outlook for stablecoins, the founder also depicted high-tech scenarios such as AI, robotics, and space exploration. These are not just castles in the air but are meant to tell us his view on the technological evolution over the next decade and the position of crypto assets within it. If this logic holds, then SOL’s current correction might actually be a reasonable pullback within an upward trend. The key is whether the progress of ecosystem development and the flow of funds can keep pace with these expectations.