{"id":279845,"date":"2025-07-21T11:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279845\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:46:13","slug":"solana-breaks-above-180-is-sol-on-the-path-to-outshine-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279845\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana breaks above $180: Is SOL on the path to outshine Ethereum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Solana cleanly broke above $180, rallying 5% on the day and outshining Ethereum. With signs pointing to a fresh wave of capital rotation, is a run to $200 next?<\/p>\n<p>A subtle but notable divergence is starting to form between <a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/category\/solana-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Solana [SOL]<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/predictions\/ethereum-price-prediction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Ethereum [ETH]<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ETH has dominated the higher timeframes, posting nearly 2x gains on both weekly and monthly candles. <\/p>\n<p>However, SOL just posted a sharp 5.25% daily move, breaking through the $185 supply wall and clearing its third key resistance this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More interestingly, the SOL\/ETH ratio, which had been in a two-week downtrend, dragging the RSI deep into oversold territory, finally snapped back with a 2.7% intra-day bounce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SOLETH_2025-07-21_11-28-16.png\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-512822\" class=\"wp-image-512822 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"SOL\/ETH\" width=\"1824\" height=\"809\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SOLETH_2025-07-21_11-28-16.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-512822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: TradingView (SOL\/ETH)<\/p>\n<p>Historically, this level has acted as a solid bounce zone before. Back in the August-November 2024 cycle, a similar move off this support saw SOL outperform ETH by 2.5x, ripping nearly 98% from its $129 base.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with ETH approaching the $4k mark, <a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/ethereum-overbought-and-overcrowded-is-eth-due-for-a-cooldown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">signs of buyer fatigue<\/a> are starting to surface. It\u2019s not necessarily a breakdown setup, but a cooldown here could open the door for more rotation.<\/p>\n<p>If that plays out, could Solana be gearing up for a $200 breakout on the back of a relative strength reversal?<\/p>\n<p><b>Greed takes hold as Solana reclaims key supply zone<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Solana just cleared a major on-chain hurdle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The URPD shows a dense realized volume cluster between $165-$185. Notably, this zone has acted as resistance since mid-Q1, when SOL broke below it, trapping many holders underwater.<\/p>\n<p>However, with price now reclaiming the range, most positions are back in profit. In a bull market, that kind of flip adds serious momentum to the breakout as greed starts to kick in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/glassnode-studio_sol-utxo-realized-price-distribution-urpd-ath-partitioned.png\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-512841\" class=\"wp-image-512841 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"SOL URPD\" width=\"3200\" height=\"1800\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/glassnode-studio_sol-utxo-realized-price-distribution-urpd-ath-partitioned.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-512841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Glassnode<\/p>\n<p>Add to that an overextended ETH\/BTC ratio, growing signs of ETH <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.glassnode.com\/charts\/indicators.Nvts?a=ETH&amp;chartStyle=column&amp;s=1737350980&amp;u=1753075780&amp;zoom=182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">overvaluation<\/a>, a reversal in the SOL\/ETH pair, and SOL breaking through multi-week resistance levels, and the setup favors relative outperformance.<\/p>\n<p>If this rotation holds, we could be looking at the early stages of a trend reversal, with $200 for Solana starting to look more like a baseline than a stretch target.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNext: <a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/ondo-could-soar-by-50-soon-but-only-if-this-happens\/\" rel=\"prev noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">ONDO could soar by 50% soon, but only if THIS happens<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key Takeaways Solana cleanly broke above $180, rallying 5% on the day and outshining Ethereum. 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