If You Invested $1,000 in Solana in 2020
If you invested $1,000 in SOL, the coin of the Solana network, at the close on 10 April 2020, it was worth $110,992 at the close on 12 October 2026. Over five years $1,000 shrank to $691, and over one year to $534.
What your money in Solana became
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Each line divides Yahoo Finance’s SOL-USD daily close (UTC) on 12 October 2026 by the close on the start date. Coin Metrics’ daily reference prices give results within about 1.3% of each one. The multiples are frozen and ignore fees, taxes and inflation.
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If you invested $1,000 in SOL, the coin of the Solana network, at the close on 10 April 2020, it was worth $110,992 at the close on 12 October 2026.
That headline sits on top of a 96.3% crash in 2022, deeper than ether’s 94.0% fall in 2018. And anyone who bought in the last five years was behind on 12 October 2026.
Why 2020? Both of our price sources, Yahoo Finance and Coin Metrics, start their daily SOL history on 10 April 2020. There is no ten-year number to give.
| Put in $1,000 on | Solana on 12 Oct 2026 | Bitcoin on 12 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 2025 (1 year) | $534 | $710 |
| 12 Oct 2021 (5 years) | $691 | $1,459 |
| 10 Apr 2020 (since the first close) | $110,992 | $11,909 |
How it is calculated for SOL
One division gives the answer. SOL closed at $0.951 on 10 April 2020 and $105.56 on 12 October 2026, on Yahoo’s daily closes. The ratio is 110.99, so $1,000 became $110,992.
Coin Metrics agrees to within a fraction of a percent. Its reference prices for the same two days give $111,258.
The calendar runs every day. Crypto has no weekends off, so the five-year start is 12 October 2021, the one-year start 12 October 2025, and there are 2,377 daily closes in the window.
As a yearly rate the result is about 106% a year, which says less than it seems: nearly all of the gain came in 2021, and the stake has gone backward for long stretches since.
From $272,260 to $10,149: the 96.3% fall
On 6 November 2021 SOL closed at $258.93. The 2020 stake was worth $272,260.
By 29 December 2022 SOL closed at $9.65. The stake was worth $10,149. That is a 96.3% fall in under fourteen months, and Coin Metrics’ prices give the same 96.3%.
A 96.3% fall needs a gain of about 2,583% to get back. SOL made it: on 18 January 2025 it closed at $261.87, above the 2021 high, 1,169 days later. On that day the 2020 stake was worth $275,347, its highest close.
Then it started over. From that January 2025 high SOL fell 76.3% to $62.19 on 6 June 2026. On 12 October 2026 it was still below the high, 632 days on.
A worked example from October 2021
Say you put $300 into SOL at the close on 12 October 2021, at $152.74.
Fourteen months later it was worth about $19. That is $9.65 ÷ $152.74 = 0.063, times $300, at the 29 December 2022 low.
By 12 October 2026 the close was $105.56. Divide: $105.56 ÷ $152.74 = 0.69. Your $300 had become about $207, still a loss five years later. Any amount typed into the calculator’s 5-year line scales by that same 0.69.
Where you bought decided everything
The same coin over the same end date gave wildly different results:
| Bought $1,000 on | Close then | Worth on 12 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Apr 2020 (first close) | $0.951 | $110,992 |
| 6 Nov 2021 (2021 high) | $258.93 | $408 |
| 29 Dec 2022 (low) | $9.65 | $10,937 |
| 18 Jan 2025 (highest close) | $261.87 | $403 |
| 12 Oct 2025 (1 year ago) | $197.51 | $534 |
The 2021 high buyer saw $1,000 fall to $37 at the December 2022 low. The low buyer got almost 11 times their money. Nobody could have known in advance which day was which.
The April anniversaries show the swings too. The 2020 stake was worth $28,223 in April 2021, $117,493 in April 2022, $21,957 in April 2023, $182,363 in April 2024, $118,609 in April 2025 and $89,194 in April 2026.
The original data: 2,377 SOL closes
All figures come from 2,377 daily SOL closes, 10 April 2020 to 12 October 2026, downloaded from Yahoo Finance on 13 October 2026 and matched against Coin Metrics’ daily reference price for the same dates. On the median day the two differ by about 0.14%.
The daily file, with both prices, the value of $1,000 and the percent below the last high, is published as the Solana $1,000 data file.
The chart shows how far below its previous high close SOL sat on each day. Zero on the scale marks a new high close. A reading of -50% means half the value since the last high was gone.
The floor of the chart is the 2022 crash. SOL closed more than 90% below its 2021 high on 338 days, from 8 November 2022 to 19 October 2023. The right side is the second fall, which had not ended by October 2026.
When it fails: a start no buyer could plan
The start date is a gift. 10 April 2020 is the first close in the data, when SOL was under a dollar. No real buyer could plan on that; most people who bought SOL bought it after it was famous, at prices far higher.
The coins that did not come back are missing. Many altcoins that fell 90% in 2022 never recovered and are not on any page like this. Writing about the survivor is survivorship bias.
Holding through a 96.3% fall is close to impossible. The headline assumes you watched $272,260 become $10,149 and did nothing.
Fees, spreads, staking rewards and taxes are left out. Some holders earned staking rewards on SOL; this page counts price only.
The past is not a forecast. None of this says what SOL will do next, or whether to buy it.
Related pages on Solana and recoveries
The Solana page explains what the network does and why SOL exists. For any fall, the drawdown recovery calculator gives the gain needed to get back.
If you want to see what buying a fixed amount every month would have done through these swings, the crypto DCA calculator runs that test.
A coin that can rise a hundredfold can also fall 96%, and this one did both. Hold only an amount whose loss you could shrug off. Write down before you buy how much of a fall you will sit through.
— Michael Whitman
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