Whales are always the one's who are pulling the strings, everywhere and especially in crypto.

This sub's most controversial crypto "Solana" recent pumps have some reasons, one of them is [VanEck’s Base, Bear, Bull Case: Solana Valuation by 2030 - report](https://www.vaneck.com/us/en/blogs/digital-assets/matthew-sigel-vanecks-base-bear-bull-case-solana-valuation-by-2030/?)

In this report amoung other things they did a price prediction for SOL in 2030:

VanEck's priceprediction for SOL

This report of published on October 27th 2023, Solana's price at this date was $31.72.

2 Weeks earlier SOL ranged around ~$23 (guess who's filling their bags by then).

After the report got published, SOL pumped up to $45 due to people FOMO into it.

Now you could interject that this is just "coincidence" and everything pumps at the moment.

There are **two reasons** this is not coincidence, but orchastrated manipulation:

**1:** SOL pump harder than other coins

**AND**

**2:** VanEck did the exact same "trick" with CosmosHub ATOM:

In August 15th 2022 they made a [similar report for ATOM](https://www.vaneck.com/us/en/blogs/digital-assets/matthew-sigel-why-we-are-bullish-on-atom/?)

They were bullish on ATOM, but not anymore...now they like SOL

Here's a quoted text from this report:

> The supply of ATOM in 2030 is estimated using today’s token supply figure of 302.3M and a target inflation rate of 13% with an estimated deceleration rate of 10% per year. Discounting that price back to today using a 26% discount rate, we arrive at a price today of $139.62.

On 27th Oct, the price for ATOM was $12, it pumped to $16 few days later.

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You see? This is no coincidence, this is market manipulation at its finest. They will ditch SOL any time for the next pump and dump scheme.

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