Solana is attempting to stabilize after recent downside pressure, with the $85 
level emerging as a key support zone. Price action is beginning to show early 
signs of base formation as bulls try to defend this area and slow the broader 
decline. While the short-term structure hints at a possible recovery attempt, 
a stronger shift in momentum will likely require a decisive push toward higher 
resistance levels. Solana Shows Early Signs Of Stabilization Near Key Zone In 
a recent technical brief, MakroVision Research highlighted that Solana is 
beginning to display early signs of stabilization following its recent period 
of weakness. While the broader market structure remains under pressure, 
current price behavior suggests selling momentum may be slowing, allowing the 
market to attempt a short-term recovery phase. Related Reading: Top Analyst 
Suggests Solana May Surpass XRP In Market Value: Here’s Why And When According 
to the analysis, Solana is presently consolidating just above the $85 level, a 
price zone that carries significant short-term importance. At the same time, 
the chart is forming a slightly rising structure characterized by gradually 
higher lows. As this pattern develops, the price is once again approaching the 
upper boundary of the formation, suggesting that market participants are 
testing whether enough momentum exists to push the price higher. Despite these 
constructive short-term developments, the broader trend remains bearish. 
Solana is still trading clearly below the descending red trendline, which 
continues to confirm the prevailing downtrend. $100 Trendline Break Could 
Signal Bullish Shift The analyst further stressed that a clear breakout above 
the descending red trendline around the $100 level would represent the first 
meaningful bullish signal for Solana in the current market structure. This 
suggests that buyers are beginning to regain control, potentially opening the 
door for a stronger recovery and a shift in short-term momentum. Related 
Reading: Solana’s Next Major Support Levels Sit At $50, $22, And $10: Analyst 
On the other hand, the outlook remains cautious as long as the price continues 
to trade below that key trendline resistance. If Solana approaches the $100 
area but faces another strong rejection, it would reinforce the idea that the 
broader downtrend remains firmly intact. In the near term, Solana appears to 
be stabilizing after its recent decline and is attempting to build a potential 
base structure. The emergence of gradually rising lows suggests that buyers 
are starting to defend current levels, which could provide a foundation for a 
possible upward move if momentum improves. For the bullish scenario to gain 
traction, holding the $85 support level remains crucial. As long as this zone 
continues to act as a floor, the market retains the possibility of pushing 
higher. A sustained reclaim of the $100 level would be the real turning point 
to improving the overall technical outlook, while repeated rejections would 
confirm the existing downtrend. Featured image from iStock, chart from 
Tradingview.com

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A fresh round of XRP speculation is building around an old question: what 
happens if SWIFT’s modernization push ends up intersecting with infrastructure 
built for blockchain-based settlement? In a post on X on March 10, DropCoin 
developer Bird argued that the market may be underestimating how ISO 20022, 
tokenization, and shared-ledger infrastructure could eventually strengthen the 
case for the XRP Ledger in institutional finance. Bird’s core point is not 
that SWIFT is about to replace its own network with XRP or the XRP Ledger. It 
is that the direction of travel across global payments increasingly points 
toward a split between messaging and settlement, with SWIFT preserving its 
role as the coordination layer while value moves across newer rails. “My 
thoughts on SWIFT potentially utilising the XRP Ledger don’t come from random 
speculation,” Bird wrote. “They come from watching how the infrastructure 
around global payments has been evolving over the last several years. First, 
SWIFT themselves have repeatedly demonstrated and showcased blockchain 
partners involved in their experiments around cross border payments, 
tokenisation and interoperability.” Related Reading: XRP Bollinger Bands Are 
Squeezing—Volatility Incoming? Could SWIFT’s Strategy Be Bullish For XRP 
Price? That framing matters because Bird is not building the argument around a 
single rumor or one-off partnership. Instead, he points to overlap between 
firms appearing in SWIFT-related blockchain experiments and companies that 
already have ties to Ripple or infrastructure connected to the XRP Ledger. In 
his view, that overlap is not proof of future integration, but it is enough to 
keep the possibility on the table. The second pillar of the argument is 
SWIFT’s ISO 20022 transition, which Bird describes as the largest upgrade in 
the network’s history. His reading is that modernized messaging standards are 
arriving just as finance moves toward tokenized assets, instant settlement, 
and interoperable liquidity networks. In that environment, the market may be 
too focused on whether SWIFT will “use XRP” directly, and not focused enough 
on the possibility that blockchain-based settlement layers could sit alongside 
SWIFT’s messaging stack. Bird put it more bluntly in a longer passage: “SWIFT 
could continue acting as the secure messaging layer, while financial 
institutions settle value using tokenised assets on networks such as the XRP 
Ledger. In that model, XRP can function as a neutral bridge asset for 
liquidity and settlement, while SWIFT continues orchestrating the 
communication between banks through ISO 20022 messaging. In other words, 
messaging and settlement don’t have to live in the same system.” That hybrid 
model is the heart of the thesis. Rather than a winner-takes-all contest 
between legacy finance and crypto rails, Bird sees a more incremental 
institutional architecture taking shape, one in which large incumbents adapt 
to avoid disintermediation. He argues that SWIFT has a strong incentive to do 
exactly that, since its historical dominance came from controlling the 
messaging layer while the economics of settlement are now being challenged by 
faster and more flexible systems. Related Reading: XRP Accumulation Signal? 
Binance Withdrawals Jump, ETF Demand Grows He also points to what he views as 
the clearest signal in the debate: SWIFT’s recent confirmation that it is 
adding a blockchain-based shared ledger to its infrastructure stack to support 
the onchain movement of regulated tokenized value across its network of more 
than 11,500 financial institutions. For Bird, that does not confirm XRP’s 
role, but it does confirm the broader direction. “SWIFT is clearly preparing 
for a world where tokenised assets move across blockchain infrastructure, 
while they continue operating as the global coordination and messaging layer,” 
he wrote. “In that kind of architecture, messaging and settlement become two 
separate layers of the financial system. Which means settlement could occur on 
specialised blockchain networks designed for liquidity and asset movement, 
while SWIFT continues coordinating communication between institutions.” Bird 
is careful to stress that he has no insider knowledge and no visibility into 
the final architecture. That caveat is doing real work here. His post is not 
evidence of an imminent SWIFT-XRP integration. It is an argument that the 
industry’s incentives, the technical direction of payment infrastructure, and 
SWIFT’s own public moves all make the idea less far-fetched than the market 
may assume, in his opinion. At press time, XRP traded at $1.3896. Featured 
image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com

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