Solana (SOL) costs around $121 on Sunday morning, October 4, 2026 (according to CoinGecko). The price has barely moved for days, but something happened on the network itself this week that reaches beyond crypto: since October 1, more than 90 banks and credit unions in North Dakota have been moving money between each other over Solana. For the Solana price prediction that is a building block which shows up in usage rather than in the price.
What Fiserv and the Bank of North Dakota have launched
The US payments processor Fiserv opened its digital asset platform to bank customers on October 1. The first use case is the Roughrider Coin, a stablecoin pegged to the dollar that the Bank of North Dakota announced with Fiserv a year ago. It is issued by VersaBank, Fireblocks provides the tokenisation technology, and settlement runs on Solana, Solana Compass reports.


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