$SOL Is this bear market worth bottom-fishing and deploying?

First, let me explain why I am optimistic about SOL's fundamentals.
The main reason SOL can achieve dozens of times gains in this bull market is that it has accurately tapped into the attention economy and the emotional consumption needs of this generation.
In the future, it’s unlikely that everyone will get involved in DeFi to create complex financial products. Instead, memes, social media, and lightweight applications will emerge one after another. When humans are no longer anxious about survival itself but are more willing to spend on emotions, memes, identity, and a sense of participation, blockchain just happens to provide a financial engine for “a meme.”
Currently, the best platform to carry this is Solana.
Technically, the SOL chain is designed for short, frequent, and fast transactions.
High TPS, low Gas fees, and prioritizing concurrency make the transaction experience closer to Web2. High-frequency small transactions are almost effortless, which is a necessity for memes. More importantly, SOL has already gained a cultural first-mover advantage—there are people in the community constantly creating, spreading, and participating in memes. Once this atmosphere forms, it’s hard to replicate.
The rise of AI will actually strengthen this.
The more AI replaces human production, the more time people will have to create, spread, and speculate. The soil for memes will only become richer.
Of course, we can’t just look at the good side of SOL. Its risks must also be clearly stated: it is indeed more centralized.
High node thresholds, extremely demanding hardware requirements, validation power concentrated in a few nodes and service providers; risks of centralization exist in clients, RPC, and the ordering layer. This is the price Solana pays for improving performance. If the infrastructure encounters issues, the impact could be chain-wide.
Therefore, in summary, I believe that in this bear market, SOL can still be gradually accumulated for the next bull run. When the price returns to around 50, it’s a good range for dollar-cost averaging. I don’t expect SOL to drop to single digits like in the 2022 bear market.
The next bull market will likely feature another Meme + emotional-driven rally, and Solana will definitely not be absent.