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What Is the Solana Fear and Greed Index?
Quick answer
The Solana Fear and Greed Index is a sentiment score from 0 to 100 for Solana specifically, rather than the crypto market as a whole. CFGI calculates a per-asset score for SOL from its own price, volatility, momentum and volume, refreshed every 15 minutes, so it can read very differently from Bitcoin or the market index. Because Solana is fast-moving and narrative-driven, its score swings hard, and it answers one question: how fearful or greedy is the crowd on Solana right now. This is education, not financial advice.
CFGI data
CFGI scores Solana individually, and SOL has swung from about 15 in Extreme Fear to a high near 90 on the 0 to 100 scale, moving on its own narrative apart from the market. That wide range is exactly why a dedicated Solana gauge is worth watching rather than a blended market number.
Source: CFGI per-asset history, SOL series.
Key takeaways
- It scores sentiment for Solana specifically, 0 to 100.
- It is built from SOL’s own price, volatility, momentum and volume.
- Solana moves on its own story: outages, recoveries and memecoin mania.
- Its higher volatility means bigger, faster swings than Bitcoin.
- CFGI refreshes the Solana score every 15 minutes.
Sentiment for One Asset
The market-wide Crypto Fear and Greed Index tells you the mood across crypto as a whole. A per-asset index narrows that to a single coin. The Solana version reads SOL’s own signals, so when Solana is running hot while the broader market is calm, its score shows it. The reading means the same as any fear and greed gauge: low is fear, high is greed, on a 0 to 100 scale, just focused on one asset.
Why Solana Swings On Its Own Story
Few major coins are as narrative-driven as Solana, which is what makes a dedicated gauge so useful for it. Solana is a high-performance blockchain built for speed and low fees, often cast as a rival to Ethereum. Its sentiment has lived through extremes: it was hit especially hard by the 2022 collapse of the FTX exchange, falling more than 90% from its peak amid the contagion, before staging one of the most dramatic recoveries in crypto. Since then its mood has swung on its own catalysts, network outages that dent confidence, upgrades that restore it, and above all waves of memecoin mania, since Solana became the home of much of that speculative activity. None of these have much to do with Bitcoin, which is why SOL’s score so often tells a different story from the market’s.
How the Score Is Built
CFGI builds the Solana score the same way it scores Bitcoin and more than a hundred other assets: by reading SOL’s own market behaviour rather than asking anyone how they feel. It blends 10 indicators, momentum, volatility, volume, social signals and on-chain activity, into one 0 to 100 figure, and refreshes it every 15 minutes across multiple timeframes to keep pace with a market that never closes. The result is a live read on how fearful or greedy the crowd is on Solana specifically.
Reading the Scale
| Reading | Mood | What it often suggests |
|---|---|---|
| 0 to 24 | Extreme Fear | Capitulation risk, but potential value |
| 25 to 44 | Fear | Caution, weak confidence |
| 45 to 55 | Neutral | No strong emotional lean |
| 56 to 74 | Greed | Optimism, rising risk appetite |
| 75 to 100 | Extreme Greed | Euphoria, elevated pullback risk |
What the 0 to 100 bands broadly mean.
As with any sentiment gauge, the middle is unremarkable and the extremes carry the signal. For a coin as volatile as Solana, an extreme reading is especially worth interrogating: ask whether it reflects durable conviction or a fast-moving memecoin frenzy that could reverse just as quickly.
Why Solana Swings Harder
Solana is meaningfully more volatile than Bitcoin, so fear and greed tend to swing harder and faster on SOL. During an altcoin season, Solana can sit deep in Extreme Greed while Bitcoin is merely neutral; in a risk-off flush it can crater into Extreme Fear well before the wider market does. That higher "beta" is exactly why its score has covered so much ground, from around 15 in deep fear to near 90 in euphoria on CFGI’s data. Reading SOL’s own number, rather than the market average, gives a far truer picture of the crowd around that specific coin.
What Solana’s Score Is Good For
The main use is catching what a market average hides: a Solana-specific move driven by an outage, a recovery or a memecoin wave that Bitcoin’s number would never reflect. As with any fear and greed reading, treat it as a contrarian context tool, deep Extreme Fear hinting at value, runaway Extreme Greed hinting at caution, rather than a precise timing signal. And given Solana’s reputation for fast, speculative frenzies, always ask what is driving an extreme reading before trusting it, because mania-fuelled greed on a volatile coin can reverse with brutal speed.
Reading It Live
You can read Solana’s score alongside Bitcoin and more than a hundred other assets on the by-coin directory, or the market overall on the live index. The same 0 to 100 zones apply: below 20 is Extreme Fear, 80 or above is Extreme Greed.
CFGI Solana Fear and Greed Index, live
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How fearful or greedy is the crowd on SOL right now?
Frequently asked questions
What is the Solana Fear and Greed Index?
A 0 to 100 sentiment score for Solana specifically, built from SOL’s own price, volatility, momentum and volume, rather than the whole crypto market. Low means fear, high means greed.
Why does Solana’s score differ from Bitcoin’s?
Because it reads Solana’s own data. SOL is more volatile and often moves on its own narrative, outages, recoveries and memecoin mania, so its score can swing further and read very differently from Bitcoin.
Why is Solana so volatile?
As a fast, speculative, narrative-driven coin, and a hub for memecoin trading, Solana sees sharp sentiment swings. It fell over 90% in the 2022 FTX collapse before a dramatic recovery, which captures how wide its mood can range.
How often does it update?
CFGI refreshes per-asset crypto scores, including Solana, every 15 minutes across multiple timeframes. This is education, not financial advice.
Lucas, CFGI Research
Lucas is the founder of CFGI and leads its research. He built the platform that scores Fear and Greed across 100+ crypto assets and the equity market from a 0 to 100, 10-indicator model, and has tracked crowd emotion through multiple full crypto and equity cycles. He writes about market sentiment, behavioural finance and how emotion shapes price.
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