Odaily Planet Daily News According to Messari's 2025 Crypto Theses report, Solana may experience another strong year. It notes that the Solana ecosystem raised $173 million in funding in the third quarter of 2024, a high since the second quarter of 2022. Moreover, a spot SOL ETF seems increasingly inevitable. The regulatory environment will become more lenient, potentially driving explosive growth fueled by institutional interest. Some analysts even predict that the price of SOL will reach $4,000. Meanwhile, the Firedancer client was deployed on the Solana mainnet this year. Firedancer, from Jump Trading, is a high-performance validator client designed to optimize transaction speed and scalability on this blockchain. The initial version will be rolled out in phases, focusing only on changes at the network layer, while subsequent versions are expected to expand functionality and further enhance the overall performance and reliability of Solana. The full deployment of Firedancer is planned for completion in 2025, which may significantly enhance client diversity on the SOL network, likely increasing activity and security by reducing reliance on a single client codebase. However, Messari adds that its potential direct impact may be limited, as other client deployments will also continue to be bottlenecked, meaning that Firedancer's full potential will still take time to be realized.