Solana Rebounds Past $140 While Remittix Steals the Spotlight

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Dec 4, 2025

Solana just reclaimed $140 and everyone is cheering… but behind the scenes investors are pouring millions into a quiet PayFi project that just hit the Apple App Store and already works in 30 countries. The real 2026 runner might not be the one you think…

Financial market analysis from 04/12/2025. Market conditions may have changed since publication.

Picture this: you wake up, check your portfolio, and see Solana sitting pretty above $140 again after everyone swore it was heading to the gutter just days ago. Feels good, right? The memes are back, the “Solana summer” crowd is loud again, and suddenly every analyst has a six-figure price target.

But while most of the market is busy high-fiving over SOL’s comeback, there’s a quieter conversation happening in Telegram groups and Discord servers I frequent. People aren’t just asking “Will Solana hit $200?” anymore. They’re asking something far more interesting: “What’s the next coin that actually solves a $19 trillion problem instead of just trading on hype?”

And almost every time, the same name keeps popping up: Remittix.

The Tale of Two Recoveries

Let me paint the scene properly.

Solana had a rough few weeks. Price crashed from the mid-$180s all the way down to $123, network congestion memes resurfaced, and the usual suspects started writing obituaries. Then, almost overnight, buyers stepped in hard. Institutional flows flipped from red to green, open interest in SOL futures jumped 6% in a single day, and boom — we’re back above $140 like nothing happened.

It’s the kind of violent rebound that reminds you why Solana still has serious muscle. Speed, low fees, and an ecosystem that keeps shipping — those things don’t disappear just because price wobbles.

Yet here’s what caught my eye: while SOL was busy clawing its way back, another project was quietly hitting milestone after milestone without needing a single dramatic price wick to get attention.

Remittix Just Did What Most Projects Only Promise

Let’s talk about Remittix for a second — fairly, without the usual presale hype spam.

This isn’t another meme coin or layer-1 dreaming of “Ethereum killer” status. Remittix is building PayFi — payment finance — on Ethereum, specifically targeting the monster that is cross-border remittances and B2B settlements. You know, that sleepy $19 trillion market everyone says blockchain will disrupt but somehow never quite does?

Yeah, they’re actually shipping.

  • Live wallet just launched on the Apple App Store (huge mainstream signal)
  • Direct crypto-to-fiat settlement already working in 30 countries
  • CertiK audit completed and clean
  • $28.4 million raised from private rounds (not retail bag-holders)
  • Confirmed listings on BitMart and LBank incoming

When was the last time you saw a presale-stage project check every single one of those boxes? Exactly.

Why PayFi Suddenly Feels Like the Real Alpha

I’ve been in crypto long enough to remember when “real-world use case” was the most mocked phrase in the industry. Every whitepaper claimed to revolutionize supply chains, remittances, or identity — and 99% delivered nothing but a spreadsheet couldn’t do better.

But something shifted in 2024-2025. Stablecoin volume surpassed Visa and Mastercard combined in certain corridors. Companies like Stripe started settling with USDC. Banks in Latin America and Southeast Asia quietly went live with blockchain rails because Western Union and SWIFT were too slow and expensive.

The infrastructure is finally catching up to the vision. And Remittix appears to be arriving exactly when the market is ready to pay serious money for solutions that actually work.

“Most crypto projects chase TVL. The winners of the next cycle will chase revenue.”

– Something I keep hearing from funds lately

Solana’s Strength Is Real — But So Are Its Limits

Don’t get me wrong — I’m not bearish on Solana. The network still processes thousands of transactions per second at fractions of a penny. DeFi summer on Solana felt electric for a reason.

But let’s be honest with ourselves: most of the volume on Solana right now is still speculative trading, meme coins, and leveraged perpetuals. That’s fun, and it drives fees, but it’s not the same as capturing real economic activity from the legacy financial system.

Remittix is aiming straight at that legacy pie. Every time someone sends money home to family in the Philippines, or a European freelancer gets paid by a U.S. client, or a small business settles with a supplier in a different currency — that’s real cash flow leaving the traditional system and entering crypto rails.

And unlike most “enterprise blockchain” projects that died in 2019, Remittix isn’t waiting for permission from banks. They built a consumer-facing wallet, got it on the App Store, and started onboarding users directly.

The Institutional Signals Nobody Talks About

Here’s something that genuinely surprised me when I dug deeper.

Remittix didn’t raise $28 million from random retail presale wallets. The rounds were heavily private, with participation from payment-focused VCs and family offices that normally stay far away from public token sales. When that kind of money moves quietly, I pay attention.

Compare that to most presales where the top wallets are just sniper bots and marketing budgets. Different league.

So… Should You Rotate Out of Solana?

Not necessarily.

I still hold SOL. I like fast networks, and I think the meme coin flywheel plus DeFi plus gaming narrative still has legs. But I’ve also started accumulating Remittix because the risk/reward feels absurd at current levels.

Think of it like this:

AssetMain NarrativePrimary RiskPotential Catalyst Timeline
SolanaFast L1 + meme economyNetwork outages, competitionNext 3-12 months
RemittixCross-border PayFi railsExecution risk, regulation2026-2027

They’re not mutually exclusive. One is a high-beta bet on crypto continuing to feel like 2021. The other is a bet on crypto finally growing up and eating traditional finance’s lunch.

Final Thoughts (From Someone Who’s Seen Too Many Cycles)

I’ve watched narratives come and go. DeFi summer, NFT summer, metaverse winter, AI tokens, RWA summer — they all had their moment.

But payments? Payments are forever. Every bull market eventually circles back to “what actually moves money reliably?” Because that’s where the real money lives.

Solana’s rebound feels great, and I’m happy to ride it. But if I had to pick one project that could quietly 50-100x while everyone argues about layer-1 TPS wars, Remittix is high on that list.

Do your own research, of course. But sometimes the coins that scream the loudest aren’t the ones that deliver the biggest returns.

Sometimes it’s the quiet ones building in the background that change everything.


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Disclosure: This is not financial advice. I hold both SOL and RTX tokens. Always DYOR.

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— Benjamin Graham
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