{"id":43423,"date":"2026-05-12T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptomag.finance\/?p=43423"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:00:41","slug":"solana-to-500-why-bulls-think-ai-could-change-the-sol-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptomag.finance\/?p=43423","title":{"rendered":"Solana To $500? Why Bulls Think AI Could Change The SOL Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Solana\u2019s AI narrative is gaining fresh support from crypto investors who argue that SOL may be positioned as a core financial infrastructure asset in an agent-driven economy. Parker White, COO of DeFiDevCorp, and Delphi Ventures founding partner Tom Shaughnessy both pointed to Solana\u2019s speed, liquidity and developer ecosystem as reasons the market may be underpricing the asset.<\/p>\n

Solana\u2019s AI Thesis Is Heating Up<\/h2>\n

White, known on X as @TheOtherParker_, said<\/a> on May 9 that he remains bullish on SOL because Solana combines \u201cs-tier technology, user adoption, and liquidity.\u201d He pushed back on the common argument that Ethereum\u2019s larger DeFi liquidity and TVL base gives it an unassailable lead, arguing that the comparison looks different once traditional finance enters the market.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people will counter with \u2018Yes, but ETH has such a huge DeFi liquidity\/TVL lead.\u2019 Huge is relative though and compared to TradFi liquidity, all DeFi liquidity is a drop in the bucket,\u201d White wrote. \u201cSo when TradFi capital allocators enter the space, SOL and ETH are effectively on the same, level playing field. In this environment, technology\/UX plays a giant role on adoption and SOL wins hands down.\u201d<\/p>\n

White also argued that SOL\u2019s relative valuation leaves room for a larger repricing if investors begin to treat Solana as a serious competitor to Ethereum. \u201cCouple all of this with the 5x relative value differential, and it\u2019s really hard not to be bullish,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIf SOL just catches up to ETH, SOL is at roughly $500 without ETH even moving. Good odds of a good outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

The more novel part of White\u2019s thesis is not simply that Solana can compete with Ethereum<\/a> on throughput or user experience. It is that AI could make Solana more strategically relevant, not less. In his view, many software businesses face uncertainty as AI compresses margins or disrupts established cash-flow models. Solana, by contrast, could benefit if autonomous agents require fast, low-cost and globally accessible financial rails.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs future software cashflows continue to be repriced with increased uncertainty, investors will look to diversify, bc diversification is the best way to combat uncertainty,\u201d White wrote. \u201cAs this diversification occurs, rationale investors will look at SOL as a financial software infrastructure play that has a \u2018high degree of positive AI convexity.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

White\u2019s argument rests on the assumption that agentic activity will require cheap, high-frequency settlement. He described Solana as \u201csecond to none\u201d for micropayments and said token-to-token value transfer between non-human agents \u201cmakes sense on SOL, but nowhere else.\u201d Other networks, he argued, are either too expensive or lack the infrastructure and liquidity needed for that use case.<\/p>\n

He also said Solana\u2019s network effects would be strengthened rather than weakened by AI usage. \u201cSecond, the network effects and liquidity cannot be replicated by a fresh AI-built system,\u201d White wrote. \u201cMore AI usage actually strengthens the network effects and liquidity, not weakens. This is where the positive convexity comes in.\u201d He added that crypto networks are \u201cglobal, permissionless, and composible,\u201d making them a natural operating environment for agents that need to interact, collaborate, pay and build across borders.<\/p>\n

Shaughnessy, writing<\/a> separately on X, made a similar case. He said his SOL thesis is that it is \u201cthe best chain for AI,\u201d citing cheap and fast infrastructure alongside what he called the strongest engineering base. He also argued that AI will make it easier to build new crypto applications, potentially accelerating sector formation through \u201ceasy capital formation,\u201d global communities and rapid app creation.<\/p>\n

In a follow-up post, Shaughnessy contrasted Solana with Bitcoin in the context of AI agents<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t think AI and agents interplay with BTC directly since it\u2019s not a programmable chain they can interact on,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI do think BTC is a massive beneficiary of AI as AGI will want to own assets humans can\u2019t manipulate and mass money printing to deal with AGI benefits BTC.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Solana, Shaughnessy summarized the thesis as \u201clegitimate AI sector ownership,\u201d faster chain performance through Alpenglow<\/a>, under-ownership after investors sold SOL for other assets, and the potential for pre-IPO stocks to trade around the clock.<\/p>\n

At press time, SOL traded at $94.51.<\/p>\n

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