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Solana Price Enters Ichimoku Cloud as $150 Target Comes Into Focus

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Solana Price Enters Ichimoku Cloud as $150 Target Comes Into Focus

Solana (SOL) blockchain, along with its ecosystem, led the strong rebound in the crypto market over the past 24 hours. For instance, the memecoin market jumped by almost 10%, with Solana price dominating in this short rally.

The native altcoin’s price followed suit, reclaiming the $90 level. This was a huge breakthrough following over a month of sideways trading.

While most signals, including buying pressure, are pointing toward a bullish recovery, can SOL crypto reclaim the $150 mark?

Solana Price Prediction: Is $150 the Next Target for SOL?

The daily chart showed that after more than a month of consolidation, the Solana price was trading above this limit. At press time, SOL crypto was trading at $92, having entered the Ichimoku Cloud. It has acted as price resistance since late last year.

This encroachment into the indicator’s cloud meant that SOL was gaining strength as it also traded above a sideways market.

Bulls eyed the $150 zone. However, they expected to clear the cloud’s top at $110 first. Hence, the $110 zone seemed to be the most likely target amid the ongoing breakout.

Solana price action chart | Source: TradingView
Solana price action chart | Source: TradingView

Still looking at Solana price outlook from a bigger perspective supported the bullish behavior. According to the weekly chart, SOL was defending the $80 to $90 zone. In previous instances where this level was above or held, Solana price surpassed the $240 zone.

Solana price action chart | Source: TradingView
Solana price action chart | Source: TradingView

Given these projections, it was optimistic to set $110 and $150 as immediate targets if current conditions persist. The $240 zone remained the bigger target, maybe for the next two quarters of the year.

Otherwise, SOL crypto prices may revert to their consolidation. But why was this not harder in the current scenario?

Buying Pressure on SOL Crypto Futures Market: Where’s Capital Coming From?

Buying pressure on SOL crypto was climbing in the futures market. CryptoQuant’s verified author CW highlighted this surge in his data.

On the 15-minute futures contracts chart, the Open Interest (OI) was climbing alongside the Solana price, confirming this buying interest. The OI reading was over $10 million.

Additionally, the Net Positions data showed that bulls had outperformed bears, with the buys taking the lead. There were 800K more Solana crypto buys than sells, as the combined net longs and net shorts indicated.

SOL crypto futures net positions data | Source: CW/X
SOL crypto futures net positions data | Source: CW/X

This capital came from institutions, whales, and retail on the Solana blockchain. For instance, Wintermute, a market maker, added more positions to its wallet holdings, with Solana among those increased.

Its SOL holdings totaled $86.94 million. Despite a floating profit of $987K, the portfolio was still down $47.53 million. Moreover, Solana digital assets investment products recorded positive inflows of $9 million in the past 7 days.

This became the sixth consecutive week of inflows as the year-to-date (YTD) total surpassed $181 million. This meant that its capital inflows were coming from different products on the Solana blockchain.

Flows by asset data | Source: CoinShares
Flows by asset data | Source: CoinShares

Solana ranked second only to Bitcoin, surpassing Ethereum, XRP, and Chainlink. CoinShares noted its adoption growth continues without slowing. These developments meant more revenue from fees. But how was Solana’s adoption growing?

Solana Crypto Blockchain Leading in New Tokens

As per SolanaFloor, about 300K new tokens were launched on Solana in the past 7 days. This was on the backdrop of a struggling crypto market, but it’s memecoins that constituted the largest share.

Weekly new SPL tokens data | Source: Solscan
Weekly new SPL tokens data | Source: Solscan

These factors set the Solana price up to reclaim those levels. The move depends on whether its current strength holds.

lennox gitonga
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Lennox is a professional financial market analyst who's enthusiastic about blockchain, cryptos, and web3. He started blogging about cryptos back in 2019 and has since never looked back. His work revolves around looking at crypto-projects analytically on a technical and on-chain level, while also making sure it's palatable to the general audience.

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PublishedMarch 17, 2026 10:34 am
Last updatedMarch 17, 2026 10:42 am
Written bylennox gitonga, Crypto Analyst
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