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Solana in 2021

2 key events this year.

Here is what happened to Solana in 2021, in date order, with the daily close from our price data where it covers the date.

First close of 2021$1.84Binance SOL/USDT daily close, 2021-01-01
Highest close$258.76Coinbase Exchange SOL/USD daily close, 2021-11-06
Lowest close$1.80Binance SOL/USDT daily close, 2021-01-02
Last close of 2021$169.88Coinbase Exchange SOL/USD daily close, 2021-12-31
Solana price, USD
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Source: Binance SOL/USDT daily closes 2020-08-11 to 2021-06-16; Coinbase Exchange SOL/USD daily closes 2021-06-17 to 2026-10-14. Fetched Oct 14, 2026 from free public APIs. Click a dot for the event and its price on that day.

Events in 2021

  1. Sep 14, 2021outage
    17 hour outage $158.64 (Coinbase Exchange SOL/USD daily close, 2021-09-14)
    A flood of bot transactions halts the network for about 17 hours.
  2. Nov 6, 2021rally
    2021 peak $258.76 (Coinbase Exchange SOL/USD daily close, 2021-11-06)
    SOL reaches its highest close of 2021.

17 hour outage Sep 14, 2021

On September 14, 2021 a surge of bot transactions during a token sale on the Raydium platform overwhelmed validators. The network stopped producing blocks and was down for about 17 hours until validators coordinated a restart.

2021 peak Nov 6, 2021

Solana rose from under 2 dollars in early 2021 to its highest prices that November, on the back of NFT and DeFi growth and heavy backing from FTX and Alameda Research. The date is the highest daily close in our series for 2021.

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