Dario Amodei Claude AI Predicts Solana Could Be Heading for a Bigger Comeback Than Expected

Storing an account on Solana used to cost $0.16 and now costs $0.016.

Dario Amodei Claude AI predicts that a tenfold reduction changes what developers can build, and the price prediction places SOL at $110 to $120 by year-end 2026, with $115 as the realistic base case.Agave 4.2 was activated the week of August 17.

Alongside the storage cut, it expands transaction size 3.3x. Now, both changes lower the cost floor for DeFi and gaming applications directly. Cheaper primitives mean designs that were uneconomic become viable.Speed is moving in parallel.

Slot times are already being staged down from 400ms toward 200ms.Source: Claude AI Solana Price PredictionAlpenglow’s roughly 150ms finality upgrade is targeted for Q3 via Agave 4.3.