On the evening of October 20, 2025, the official Solana account retweeted a post about its Chinese name "索拉拉", marking the official recognition of this Chinese naming initiated by the community.
Subsequently, the eponymous Meme coin saw a significant price increase in a short period of time. According to GMGN market data, its market value surged to approximately 18 million USD in just 15 hours, with an increase of over 80%.
This naming is not just a change of title, but has become a cultural symbol. It signifies that the world’s top public chain giants officially recognize and embrace the creativity and energy from the Chinese-speaking community.
01 Community Co-creation: The Birth Story of the Chinese Name "Solana"
Solana The birth of the Chinese name is a typical community-driven event. It all started on October 14th when the content tokenization platform Trends.fun launched the "Collecting Chinese Names for Solana" campaign and set up a prize pool of 100 SOL.
The event rules require participants to quote and retweet the official tweet and submit a proposed Chinese name. The best proposal will receive a reward of 66 SOL.
Mable, the founder of Trends.fun, stated at the launch of the event that someone reminded her that Solana does not yet have an official Chinese name, while Ethereum’s Chinese name "以太坊" has helped ETH spread better in the Eastern market.
On October 15th, Lily Liu, the chairperson of the Solana Foundation, commented under a tweet about "索拉拉," mentioning the connection between her Chinese name "立立" and "索拉拉."
She explained that her parents chose the neutral character "立", perhaps hoping she would become a builder.
On October 19, user muper announced in a post that he won a prize in the Solana Chinese name event and promised to donate the prize to the Chinese community.
He explained that the inspiration for "Solalara" came from a post by the chairman of the Solana Foundation, and their team created this name representing the image of a long-haired builder girl, symbolizing every builder striving on Solana.
02 Official Recognition: From Community Proposal to Global Brand
The key turning point in naming occurred on October 20. That evening, Lily Liu replied to muper’s tweet saying "cute picture" while changing her avatar to "Solana."
Subsequently, the official Solana account cited muper’s tweet and added the caption "Solara", officially recognizing this Chinese name.
This series of interactions quickly sparked market interest in the Trends.fun named Meme coin "Solara."
On the morning of October 21, muper stated again that the transaction fee revenue obtained on Trends.fun has exceeded $20,000 in just half a day. He expects this figure to reach $100,000 soon and has promised to return the transaction revenue to the community.
During the naming activity, the community actually proposed several different naming schemes. Toly, the co-founder of Solana Labs, expressed in Chinese on the 16th that he personally thinks "索拉娜" is good, while "索拉拉" is quite cute, and "唢呐" is also quite amusing.
These suggestions reflect the community’s different perspectives on the Chinese naming of Solana. Ultimately, "索拉拉" stood out due to its interaction with the chairman of the Solana Foundation and its spread within the community.
03 Market Performance: SOL Price and Meme Coin Craze
In terms of market performance, Solana (SOL) experienced significant volatility in recent trading. On October 21, 2025, SOL reached a peak of $197.72, then closed at $185.63.
This represents a decrease of 0.29% within 24 hours, during which the price fluctuated between $182.74 and $197.72.
As of October 22, 2025, the key market data for Solana includes: the current price is $185.19, the market cap is $10.121 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $118.66 million.
From a technical analysis perspective, Solana’s Price trend Reveals several significant trends: A 7-day performance shows a decrease of 8.21%, and over the past 30 days, SOL has dropped by 20.48%.
Despite the recent decline, SOL has still maintained a 11.45% increase over the past year.
The current price is $185.19, significantly lower than SOL’s historical high of $293.31, which was reached on January 19, 2025.
However, this price is still far higher than the historical low of $0.50 recorded on May 12, 2020.
04 Chinese Meme Season: Cross-Chain Carnival Feast
The spark of "Solana" is rapidly spreading and has formed a prairie fire on another public chain, Base. This surge is not unfounded; it is ignited by Binance.
Binance’s recent launch of the "Binance Life" contract and the establishment of the "Chinese" zone has injected strong FOMO emotions into the entire network’s Chinese Meme.
Against this backdrop, "Base Life" has emerged as the "ecological brother" of "Binance Life," leveraging the momentum to become one of the brightest stars in this market trend.
According to GMGN and DEX Screener data, the Base’s price surged over 5000% within 24 hours, with its market cap briefly surpassing 10 million USD from a low of less than 1 million USD.
As of the time of writing, its market value remains at a high of approximately $4.23 million, with a 24-hour trading volume reaching $14.8 million.
Leading the entire sector, "Binance Life" has seen its trading volume surge from 10.8 million USD to 140 million USD, with a market capitalization consistently around 285 million USD, fully demonstrating the strong capital cohesion of Chinese narratives.
Driven by leading projects, a batch of meme coins with distinctive Chinese internet culture characteristics, such as "Hakimi", "Xiu Xian", and "Customer Service Xiao He", have also surged, with 24-hour trading volumes reaching 30 million, 21 million, and 21.1 million US dollars respectively.
At one point, Chinese memes became the "new universal language" in the world of memes without borders.
05 The Chinese Ambition of Public Chains: Strategic Focus Shift
Behind the feast of Chinese memes is the strategic focus of public chain giants on the Chinese market. In the past few months, the Solana ecosystem has faced capital outflow, with a large number of active users turning to the Chinese asset market on BSC.
In the face of Binance’s strong entry into the "Chinese" sector, Solana has changed its previously "aloof" attitude and actively embraced Chinese culture: the official account frequently tweets in Chinese, humorously self-deprecatingly referring to itself as the "Apple Chain" in response to the community’s "Android meme," and has hinted multiple times that the "SOL Meme market will make a strong comeback."
The more symbolic action takes place offline. According to public information, Lily Liu, the chairperson of the Solana Foundation, and Zhu Junwei, the chairman of the SOL treasury company, will jointly appear at Tsinghua University’s Wudaokou School of Finance, one of China’s top financial institutions, to attend the "Global Vision Lecture Series."
The theme of this lecture directly addresses Solana’s core vision - "to create an efficient internet capital market."
This is by no means an ordinary campus sharing. In the eyes of the community, this is the most significant signal sent by Solana to the Chinese-speaking market.
In recent years, topics related to cryptocurrency have mostly been discussed in closed-door seminars or held overseas in mainland universities.
The recent public promotion and registration at Wudaokou School of Finance undoubtedly conveys a subtle signal: blockchain technology and public chain ecology are being incorporated into the discussions of more mainstream and cutting-edge financial technology education.
06 Naming Mysticism: Cultural Adaptation and Market Communication
The influence of naming culture in the cryptocurrency field is not an isolated case. According to the analysis by "Buyiju · Name Testing", comparing Chinese names like "Solana", "Bitcoin", and "Ethereum" shows that:
The name configuration of "Solana" is interpreted as "fundamental stability, successful operation, gaining both wealth and reputation, and a trend of significant development."
In comparison, "Bitcoin" is analyzed as "easy to achieve goals, but lacks durability"; "Ethereum" is considered to be "even if strong, difficult to be recognized and appreciated, a futile effort"; while "Binance Life" is regarded as "determined as iron, with a strong personality, unwilling to yield, possessing deep strength and talent, capable of creating a brilliant and splendid future."
As cryptocurrencies continue to deepen in the process of globalization, and with the launch of the first Chinese token "Binance Life" on Binance contracts, cultural naming and adaptation may become important aspects of project development.
Just as the Chinese name for "Ethereum" has helped its spread in the Chinese market, whether "索拉拉" can bring new growth momentum to the Solana ecosystem still requires further observation from the market.
Future Outlook
From "Solana" to "Base Life", Chinese narratives are no longer limited to the internal loop of BSC’s "Android meme", but have become a cultural bridge connecting global traders.
The Chinese-speaking community is writing language, humor, and the logic of wealth into the global landscape with unprecedented speed and confidence. Web3 In the process.
This frenzy triggered by naming has transcended simple price fluctuations and become a cultural phenomenon, signifying that the Chinese-speaking world’s discourse power in the crypto space is continuously rising.
