The 5 Best Solana Tokens to Buy Now

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Solana tokens have surged in popularity this year, with some SOL meme coins in particular seeing huge gains.

With the Solana network continuing to gain pace, several of its ecosystem tokens could present monumental buying opportunities going forward.

This article provides the five Solana tokens we think have particularly high potential, with a mix of meme coins, GameFi tokens and others.

Mega Dice

The Solana ecosystem has become renowned for its high-risk, high-reward meme coin pool. However, the Mega Dice token is another type of cryptocurrency that appeals to the same degen trading demographic.

Mega Dice is an industry-leading crypto casino with over 50K players and $50 million in monthly wagers. But despite its position as a GambleFi front-runner, the project has brought a brand new token to market, providing investors an opportunity to get in from its inception.

Given the project’s established position, analysts anticipate massive potential. For instance, Crypto Boy recently dubbed it a “100X project,” highlighting that it is a leading crypto casino on Solana.

$DICE boasts inherent utilities that are sure to bolster its long-term demand. These include daily passive rewards based on the casino’s success, limited edition NFTs, exclusive access to new features, early bird bonuses, and more.

The current Mega Dice presale price is $0.069, but this will incrementally rise throughout the presale, with the next uptick coming when 14.7 million tokens are sold. The figure is currently at 11.9 million.

Sealana

Sealana is the hottest meme coin on the Solana presale circuit. The project has raised over $250K so far and has been embraced by leading analysts.

Inspired by South Park, Sealana is a foul-mouthed, seal-themed meme coin who swapped out his sea-dwelling lifestyle to chase meme coin riches. He resides in his mom’s basement where canned tuna and chips are daily staples, hoping to one day make it out with outrageous degen gains.

While this hilarious backstory has captivated investors, rumours that the Slerf team is behind the project are also driving excitement. Slerf peaked over a $400 million market cap last month, presenting an immensely bullish outlook for Sealana if the rumours are true.

Adding to the excitement, top analysts like ClayBro are tipping Sealana for big gains after its IEO.

“Sealana is the latest Solana meme coin set to rally,” he said.

However, with no predetermined hard cap announced, those seeking to buy the Sealana presale must act quickly or risk missing out.

Kamino

Kamino Finance is a prominent Solana DeFi protocol that describes itself as a “concentrated liquidity layer.”

Users can lend and borrow funds, provide liquidity, stake tokens in automated liquidity vaults, and track their portfolios.

KMNO recently launched as an airdrop and is currently trading at $0.0591. It is down 19% today but up 60% this week and 39% since its launch on 30 April.

It has a $59 million market cap and a $6.9 24-hour trading volume, down 29% today.

The KMNO token governs the Kamino Finance protocol, empowering holders to influence the project’s direction through on-chain voting.

According to DeFiLlama data, Kamino currently has a $1.1 billion total value locked, up from $230 million at the beginning of January.

X analyst account Luna Labs recently provided a deep-dive price prediction on Kamino, urging holders to “not sell your KMNO” and speculating that the price could rise above $0.15.

Jupiter

Jupiter is another top Solana DeFi protocol to buy. Currently, Jupiter is the industry’s second-largest decentralized exchange by trading volume, only behind Ethereum’s Uniswap.

The JUP token launched via an airdrop in February and has performed strongly since. Its opening price was $0.72, but after a brief retracement, it peaked at $1.78 and is now trading at $1.07.

JUP is down 5.9% today, up 23% this week, and down 25% this month. It holds a $1.4 billion market cap and a $128 million 24-hour trading volume, down 45% today.

Over the past 24 hours, the Jupiter exchange has facilitated $744 million in trading volume, notching 15.5% of the total crypto on-chain trading activity.

Meanwhile, it boasts a $323 million total value locked, up 11% this week.

Similar to KMNO, JUP is used to govern the Jupiter exchange.

Popcat

Popcat is Solana’s fourth-largest meme coin and the crypto’s largest cat-themed token by market cap.

It is priced at $0.502, down 11% today but up 42% this week and 55% this month. 

The project holds a $491 million market cap and a $91 million 24-hour trading volume, down 8% today.

Popcat’s recent gains make it a top-performing Solana meme coin, reflecting a strong interest in the token and laying the way for further gains as the wider crypto market takes its next leg up.

Adding to its bullish outlook, Popcat is the largest Solana meme coin yet to be available on Binance. This means that if the heavyweight exchange wants to increase its exposure to the Solana ecosystem, Popcat is likely next in line for a listing.

This was an accolade Dogwifhat held prior to its March 2024 listing, following which its price enjoyed a parabolic upswing.