Solana Price Prediction: Upgrade Goes Live Today, $1,000 Stays in Play, and Pepeto Is the Faster Road

Pinning down a Solana price prediction this week means hitting one wall. The upgrade is real, $1,000 is real, and the debate is only about speed. SOL trades at $103.91 per CoinMarketCap as Transaction V1 goes live.

It triples the size of one transaction, from 1,232 to 4,096 bytes, per 24/7 Wall St.  Yet Standard Chartered puts $1,000 around 2029, per MEXC. Big coins move like that. While the upgrade pulls big money into SOL, something smaller is building under it.

That is Pepeto, a presale above $10.9 million already running three tools, the early entry SOL last offered in 2020. What does today’s Solana upgrade mean for any Solana price prediction?

Solana switched on Transaction V1 on September 9, 2026, lifting the top size of one transaction from 1,232 to 4,096 bytes, per 24/7 Wall St. That extra room lets zero knowledge proofs and big group approvals settle in one transaction.