Solana Price Prediction: Wall Street Investor Scaramucci Picks SOL as Top Altcoin for 2026 – $1,000 SOL Incoming?

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January 2, 2026

The Solana price has risen by almost 3% in the past 24 hours, with its climb to $128.30 coming as the crypto market as a whole regains a cap of $3.111 trillion.

SOL is now up by 4% in a week, although it does remain down by 9.5% in a month and by 38% in the past year.

These percentages may be disappointing, but there are strong reasons to believe that the Solana price is on the brink of a strong and sustained recovery.

Not only do its fundamentals remain as strong as ever, but high-profile investors are also tipping the coin for big things, with Skybridge Capital founder and former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci picking Solana as one of his top 3 alts to watch in 2026.

Solana Price Prediction: Wall Street Investor Scaramucci Picks SOL as Top Altcoin for 2026 – $1,000 SOL Incoming?

Speaking in an interview, Scaramucci picked Solana, Avalanche, and Toncoin as his 3 cryptocurrencies that could outperform the market this year.

Explaining why he chose Solana, the entrepreneur and former lawyer said that SOL is “cheap, low cost, very fast, easy to use, easy to develop on.”

And while clarifying that he believes in a “multi-coin world,” Scaramucci explained that he’s singling out Solana because it has all the key attributes a layer-one platform would need to succeed.

Of course, one investor’s remarks on their own aren’t enough to move a major token such as Solana, yet we can see from its chart today that it may be very close to a breakout.

Not only has a bullish pennant been forming over the past few months, but also SOL’s two primary indicators – the RSI (yellow) and MACD (orange, blue) – are about to turn positive after weeks of negativity.

Indeed, Solana has been in an oversold position for so long now that a major rally is overdue, and it looks like such a rally could be beginning.

Solana’s fundamentals also point towards strong growth this year, given that Solana remains the second-biggest layer-one network in terms of total value locked, at $9.3 billion.

It’s also worth pointing out that its DEX volume, at $2.97 billion, is higher than Ethereum’s, which stands at a less impressive $1 billion.

We’ve also seen the launch of several SOL ETFs in recent weeks, with 2026 likely to bring many more, pushing up the Solana price even higher.

Based on this, we could see SOL hit $150 by the end of January, $250 by Q2, and then $1,000 by the end of 2026.

Solana-Based Bitcoin Hyper is Ready to Launch Bitcoin’s First Ever Layer-Two Network: Next 100x Alt?

As strong as Solana looks right now, traders may want to maintain a diversified portfolio in order to increase their exposure to potential gains.

One way of doing this is to allocate some funds to presale coins, which, under the right conditions, can rally strongly when they list for the first time.

This is what Solana-based layer-two network Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) is hoping to do, with its sale now having raised $30 million so far.

This makes Bitcoin Hyper’s one of the biggest presales of the last 12 months, and indicates that it could become very popular once it launches.

What’s interesting about Bitcoin Hyper is that it’s in the process of launching an L2 network for Bitcoin, one that is aiming to provide investors with a whole DeFi ecosystem in which to put their BTC to work.

It harnesses Solana’s Virtual Machine, giving it a level of speed and scalability that will make it one of the fastest L2s around, while also making it compatible with Solana-based dapps.

By depositing BTC with Bitcoin Hyper’s smart contract, users will receive a corresponding amount of HYPER, which they can then use with the L2’s growing range of dapps and protocols.

In other words, they will be able to lend out the value of their Bitcoin, or they could stake their tokens and earn a yield, which currently stands at 39% APY.

This is why Bitcoin Hyper has performed so well during its sale, which investors can join by going to the project’s official website.

HYPER currently costs $0.013515, although this price will continue to rise for as long as the sale lasts.