Solana Eyes Massive Breakout Amid $240 Retest, But Analyst Issues Crucial Market Warning

Solana (SOL) could be near the long-awaited price discovery phase after climbing to a seven-month high. However, an analyst suggested investors remain cautious, as the market rally is “closer to the end than the beginning.”

On Friday, Solana reached a seven-month high of $241.84 after breaking out of its consolidation range earlier in the week. The cryptocurrency had been trading within the $120-$220 price range since the start of February, failing to reclaim the range’s high during the recent short-term recoveries.

The ongoing rally has sent the cryptocurrency past multiple crucial barriers, “getting close to the final resistance,” analyst Crypto Jelle stated. He highlighted that SOL has been “quietly pushing higher, without anyone paying attention,” climbing 20% since Sunday.

Now that the altcoin is attempting to reclaim the $240 area as support, the analyst pointed out that Solana has “one last hurdle to overcome” before price discovery.  According to the post, if SOL reclaims the $250 level, “the sky is the limit,” as this area has been a crucial macro resistance level over the past two years.

To the analyst, turning this level into support could set the base for a rally to $600. Similarly, analyst Ali Martinez suggested that SOL’s main target sits at around the $1,314.41 level after the altcoin broke out of a massive three-year cup and handle pattern.

Nonetheless, Altcoin Sherpa issued a warning to investors on X, stating that “Now is NOT the time to ape in gigantic.” He asserted that despite thinking that Solana, Ethereum (ETH), and BNB “generally go higher from here, (…) the bulk of the move is done for these.”

The analyst explained that he will remain bullish “until shown otherwise,” and expects a great performance in the coming months, but noted that the bull run is “closer to the end than the beginning.”

“We are lucky that the marginal buyers are Tradfi with these DATs but with Saylor not buying as much, hard to tell where the next set of flows come from,” he stated.

Bitwise’s CIO Matt Hougan recently forecasted a bullish Q4 rally for Solana, affirming that the cryptocurrency has “all the ingredients (…) for an epic end-of-year run.” He suggested that it could start a “Solana Season” fueled by exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and strong corporate treasury purchases.

Notably, multiple spot Solana ETFs are awaiting the approval of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after the regulatory agency delayed the decision deadline last month. As a result, issuers and investors are expecting a positive outcome around the first half of October.

Additionally, the recently launched Solana Treasury company, Forward Industries Inc., announced it had successfully closed its private investment in public equity (PIPE) financing on September 11, securing gross proceeds of approximately $1.65 billion for the Company.

As reported by NewsBTC, Galaxy Digital, Jump Crypto, and Multicoin Capital announced their plan to establish the SOL treasury company to purchase the cryptocurrency, stake it, and generate excess returns.

“Forward Industries intends to use the net proceeds from the offering primarily to purchase SOL, the native digital asset of the Solana blockchain,” the company reaffirmed in its Thursday statement.

As of this writing, SOL is trading at $239.86, a 6.1% increase in the daily timeframe.