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For a moment there, it really looked like Solana prices might hold. We saw a strong weekend rally, with SOL tapping $146 on Monday — its highest since the local top in early March, for what it’s worth — before retreating slightly on Tuesday.

But as of this afternoon, the price has fallen sharply to $137.

I think it’s fair to speculate that this drop was triggered (at least partially) by one of the year’s more chaotic memecoin events. It began when a trader opened a massive $6 million short position on JELLYJELLY — a thinly-traded token tied to the Jelly-My-Jelly video app,…

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