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When the largest liquidation event in crypto history hit last Friday, $ETH choked, but $SOL didn’t. During peak stress, Solana sustained 1,225 TPS, finalized blocks in 350ms, and saw average fees peak at just $0.25 before quickly returning below $0.01. Ethereum struggled to process beyond 26 TPS, with 15-second block times and average fees surging to $616, making the network unreliable, impractical, and effectively unusable during the chaos. When users are priced out and transactions can’t clear, the network might as well be offline. Under high load, blockchains must remain accessible, affordable, and reliable. After nearly 20 months of uninterrupted uptime, even through the network’s busiest moments, it’s clear that Solana’s continued upgrades and optimizations have paid off. No other chain comes close to handling global value transfer at this scale. The takeaway is simple: only Solana stays fast, cheap, and usable, even when global markets melt down.

This altcoin chart might seem hopium to most but it's actually quite realistic backed by proof and data. Bitcoin right now is sitting at +- $108k and is close to breaking into new all time high territory. EVERY TIME THIS CYCLE when Bitcoin broke its local highs strongly (not a wick or takeout) it caused altcoins to surge. Yes, not surge into traditional "altseason" territory like most like to call it but they surged and rebounded (call it strong relief) nonetheless. Look at when Bitcoin expanded strongly to the upside and you'll exactly find Q1 2024 and Q4 2024 to almost the exact day. Untill Bitcoin dominance begins to trickle down it won't entirely be like we are used to but the environment of surged like the chart below still creates a larger and more easy environment which I'll take any day. Rate cuts, QE, economic clarity (wars, tariffs) are likely what we need to have, to have something more like a traditional altseason. But even without those factors this cycle we have been able to get moves out of the altcoin market if Bitcoin expanded. The ideal scenario would still be having a bitcoin expansion + dominance down ofcourse. But that's still to early to stay when right now. The scenario below however is at least already quite close 🤝