DeFi Development adds 5,346 SOL: What it means for the Solana price

Published on 10/29/2026 at 13:06 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Alpenglow targets 150-millisecond finality after its October 21 launch. The Solana price is 102.78 USD on October 29, 2026, up 1.39 percent.

Alpenglow changes settlement speed

On October 26, DeFi Development Corp. reported an increase of 5,346 SOL and SOL equivalents.
Alpenglow went live on October 21 with a 150-millisecond finality target, compared with 12.8 seconds.
The Solana price stands at 102.78 USD as of October 29, 2026, 1.39 percent above the UTC daily close of October 28, 2026.
Spot SOL funds recorded a 19.20 million USD outflow on October 27.

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Solana (SOL) treasury holder DeFi Development Corp. added 5,346 SOL and SOL equivalents by October 26, 2026. Markets Insider reported that the company raised its treasury total to 2,595,612 SOL and SOL equivalents. The Solana price is 102.78 USD as of October 29, 2026, up 1.39 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 28, 2026, according to Investing.com.

DFDV reports 2,595,612 SOL and equivalents

DeFi Development Corp. said on October 26 that its holdings had increased by 5,346 SOL since its previous update. The same report said Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade went live on October 21, 2026, with a target of approximately 150-millisecond transaction finality instead of roughly 12.8 seconds. Finality is the point at which a blockchain transaction becomes irreversible. The report described the upgrade as a change to Solana's core consensus infrastructure, while the treasury update came from the named holder rather than from the Solana protocol itself, according to Markets Insider.

Ground News reported that Alpenglow replaced TowerBFT voting logic with Votor and activated on October 21, 2026. The report also described a temporary handoff for validators and application operators at slot 459,653,000, making the upgrade a network infrastructure event rather than a token issuance change.

Solana funds record a 19.2 million USD outflow

U.S. spot SOL ETFs, which are exchange-traded funds holding the asset directly, recorded a net outflow of 19.2 million USD on October 27, 2026, according to Alpha Finance. The figure marked the second consecutive session of outflows in that dataset. Alpha Finance also reported a 141.8 million USD net inflow over the 30 sessions through October 27, 2026. These fund-flow figures describe ETF activity and do not establish a cause for the SOL price movement.

SOL trades at 102.78 USD on October 29, 2026

According to Investing.com, SOL trades at 102.78 USD as of October 29, 2026, up 1.39 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 28, 2026. The daily high is 103.68 USD and the daily low is 100.46 USD. Investing.com lists Solana's market capitalization at 60.30 billion USD, rank seven, and 24-hour volume at 2.61 billion USD. Circulating supply is 589.93 million SOL.