Solana (SOL) Takes an Early Monday Dive as Outage News Weighs

Solana (SOL) is a Proof-of-Stake and Proof-of-History platform and has been tagged the “Ethereum (ETH) Killer”. The NFT market has been key to Solana’s success.

Currently ranked #7 on CoinMarketCap, with a market cap of $50,675m, Solana’s rise came off the back of the Degenerate Ape Academy NFT launch on the Solana blockchain.

Solana Network Power Outages and Price Impact

With the crypto market under significant pressure last week, news of a Solana power outage did not help. In spite of Solana’s move into the crypto top 10, there has been plenty of negative network news.

At the start of the year, news hit the wires of a 3^rd distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in less than 6-months. This followed an attack at the end of 2021 that had impacted network performance for hours. On 4^th January, Solana reportedly went offline for 4-hours.

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Frequent outage news left SOL well below its $259.95 by the end of 2021. In spite of the reversal, however, SOL ended the year up by 11,154% to $169.9.

In the week ending 23^rd January, SOL slid by 32.5% to end the week at $99.81. Heavy losses on Friday (-11.89%) and Saturday (-15.82%) did the damage.

While the broad-based crypto sell-off contributed to the Friday reversal, news of another outage also weighed heavily. A reported 48-hour outage followed the outage on 4^th January. The Solana team tweeted that “excessive duplicate transactions” caused the outage. Defi users on the Solana platform suffered, with users reportedly getting hit with forced liquidations and heavy losses as a result.

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SOL Price Action

At the time of writing, SOL was down by 5.97 to $93.85. While the broader crypto market also struggled in the early hours of this morning, SOL’s losses have been exasperated by the weekend outage.

For the day ahead, a move through the day’s $99 pivot level would support a run at the first major resistance level at $105. Plenty of support would be needed, however, to break back through to $100 levels.

Failure to move through the day’s pivot would leave support levels in play. The first major support level sits at $94.

Looking at the moving averages, SOL continues to sit well below the 50-day MA. With the 50-day closing in on the 200-day MA, a bearish cross would bring sub-$90 levels into play. SOL last sat at sub-$90 in August.