Solana News - December 18, 2025

📈 Solana (SOL) Current Price: ~$198.50 (+2.5% in 24h) Top News: A historic day for the ecosystem as the "Firedancer" validator client officially launched on Mainnet Beta early this morning. The network upgrade, developed by Jump Crypto, has successfully demonstrated significantly higher throughput capacity in its initial hours without any stability issues. Following this deployment, market sentiment has turned extremely bullish, with analysts at VanEck releasing a note suggesting that this technical leap removes the final bottleneck for mass institutional adoption, pushing the price to test the psychological $200 barrier.