Solana is the world's most performant and efficient blockchain, built to be the perfect wave to ride into the next generation of the internet. Solana's high speeds and low fees means that it's become the blockchain of choice for payments, gaming, DeFi, web3, DAOs, and more. Solona Is Fastest & Safe Network
Solana's network is proven to be very fast compared to ERC or BSC, this is what makes Solana's popularity skyrocket and it only took a year to compete and enter the top 5, unfortunately now there are many negative issues and market drops that have affected Solana's performance.
The market is somewhat bearish, and so this influence the Solana market as well. However, if the OP invested in SOL from the time he created this thread, which was about 75 cents at that time, he would have a very big ROI even selling at 100 bucks today. They already hit their ATH of about $260 and I believe, high probability that they will surpass that price level as many users are discovering the benefits of using SOL network. Exchanges are also including SOL in their chain options.