Fidelity report gives Solana a clean bill of health, with a few notes

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Fidelity's FCAT says Solana's trajectory remains positive on resilience and adoption, but flags stake concentration and client diversity as risks

Mon 19 Oct 2026 · 12:20 EDT · 2 min read

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Fidelity has run a full checkup on Solana. The verdict: the patient looks healthy, though the doctor has a few follow-up questions.

In a report published October 16, 2026, Fidelity’s Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) concluded that Solana’s broader trajectory remains positive. It credits growing software diversity, infrastructure investment and rising adoption. When a firm managing approximately $7.8 trillion in assets writes a network health report, institutional desks tend to read it.

What Fidelity found

The report is titled “The State of Solana: Network Health and Resilience.” It reviews how the network has developed over the past two years.

FCAT analysts Mia Galvin and Kevin Kelly organized their assessment around three pillars. These are network resilience, economic security, and performance usability.

The headline resilience stat is simple. Solana has not had a single mainnet outage across the two-year period the report covers.

Validators have also been showing up for work. The report puts average validator vote success at approximately 99.7% in 2026.

FCAT also pointed to performance gains, including expanded capacity and shorter slot times.

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The adoption numbers

The value of tokenized real-world assets on Solana climbed from roughly $1 billion to about $4.4 billion within a year.

Stablecoins tell a similar story. Solana carried a stablecoin supply of $16 billion that processed over $2 trillion in volume in Q1 2026.

As of October 2026, approximately 8% of SOL sits with ETFs and digital asset treasuries. Roughly one in every twelve SOL tokens now belongs to a regulated fund or a corporate treasury.

Fidelity has supported SOL trading and custody across various platforms since October 2025.

The fine print: concentration and client risk

The biggest concern is validator stake concentration. As of Q3 2026, between 18 and 20 validators controlled more than one-third of active stake.

Geography compounds the issue. The report found that 40% of stake was located in Frankfurt and Amsterdam as of Q3 2026.

FCAT also flagged limited client software diversity. That risk gets sharper as Solana prepares for future upgrades, including the anticipated Alpenglow.

There is a tension here worth noting. The report cites increased software diversity as a positive driver while also calling current client diversity limited. Both can be true: progress is happening, but the job is not finished.

Disclosure: This article was edited by Estefano Gomez. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.