Solana and Samsung Wallet: Can 82 Million Phones Lift SOL?
Samsung Wallet is bringing USDC to 82 million eligible US Galaxy devices via Solana and Sui. The fee, burn and inflation math behind a $30,720 SOL claim.
Key takeaways
- Samsung Wallet users will send USDC digital dollars over networks including Solana and Sui. They do not buy or hold SOL to do it.
- Even if all 82 million eligible devices sent one transfer a day, the video calculates Solana would burn about 205 SOL a day, while staking rewards create about 62,800 new SOL a day.
- The SIMD-0553 proposal for a bigger fee burn failed in August 2026. According to the video, the double disinflation change that passed was not yet switched on as of October 11, 2026.
- Priority fees go 100% to the validator and none is burned, so extra activity from busy apps adds to the burn only through the small base fee.
- On the current schedule, unstaked SOL would be roughly a 10% smaller share of the network by the end of 2030, according to the video.
Samsung Wallet will let 82 million eligible US Galaxy devices send USDC digital dollars from late October, using Solana and Sui as network partners. A viral prediction says that could push SOL to $30,720. The video’s math disagrees: if every phone sent money daily, Solana would burn about 205 SOL a day while creating about 62,800 new SOL a day.
That gap matters to anyone holding SOL for the long term. A big-name partnership can be real and useful without making each coin scarcer. The video goes through Samsung’s release, Solana’s fee rules, two governance votes and the network’s inflation data. The goal is to show what actually decides how much of Solana a holder still owns in 2030.
What did Samsung actually sign up for?
Samsung signed up to give eligible US Galaxy users access to the USDC stablecoin, with Solana as one of its network partners. Samsung’s release says 82 million US devices can run the feature. That counts phones able to use it, not people using it.
The release also says infrastructure and blockchain network support will come from “separate partners with the required technical capabilities including Solana and Sui.” Coinbase safeguards all USDC in Samsung Wallet through Coinbase Prime Vault.
USDC is a digital dollar. The person sending money holds dollars, not SOL. The video quotes a commentator who says Samsung can sponsor or hide the fees from users. Solana’s low fees suit everyday use, but they also mean the network captures very little from each transfer. Bullrunners covered the launch itself in what Samsung Wallet adding Solana and Sui means for holders.
Where does the $30,720 SOL prediction come from?
The $30,720 figure comes from a viral pitch that assumes Solana captures 11% of a $164 trillion tokenization market. That is about $18 trillion. The pitch puts Solana’s market cap at about $70 billion and says reaching $18 trillion would mean roughly a 256x increase from about $120 per coin.
The same pitch says a $5 million retirement would need about 162.7 SOL today. At about $110 a coin on October 11, 2026, that is roughly $17,900.
The video points to two problems with this math:
- The value isn’t Solana’s. $18 trillion of stocks sitting on Solana are still stocks. Solana gets paid a fee to move them, not the value of the stock.
- The supply keeps growing. The video estimates about 710 million SOL will exist by 2030. Divide the same $18 trillion by that supply and the figure drops to about $25,400 a coin, before the first problem is even considered.
The $30,720 figure is a speculative claim from the pitch, not a forecast. Bullrunners has looked at the same question for other coins in whether Wall Street tokenization money reaches the tokens.
How much SOL does a Samsung transfer burn?
A single Samsung Wallet transfer burns a very small amount of SOL. Solana’s documents set a base fee of 5,000 lamports per signature. A lamport is one billionth of a SOL, so that is 0.000005 SOL, a small fraction of a cent at around $116 per SOL.
The fee is split 50/50. Half is burned, meaning permanently removed from supply. The other half goes to the validator, the computer that processed the transaction. By the video’s math, one transfer burns about three hundredths of a penny.
The video plays a clip of a speaker it identifies as the Solana Foundation’s president. His argument is that for blockchains other than Bitcoin, usage creates fee revenue, and that revenue flows back to token holders. The video’s point is that on a Samsung transfer, the fee is tiny and only half of it is burned. For a wider explainer on fee types, see crypto fees explained.
How much new SOL does Solana create each day?
Solana creates about 62,800 new SOL a day, according to the video’s math on network data. The video says the network reported inflation of 3.6% a year on October 11, 2026, applied to a total supply of about 635.6 million SOL. The new coins go to stakers, the people who lock up SOL to help run the network. At about $110 a coin, that is close to $7 million of new SOL a day.
Here is the Samsung best case, based on the video’s figures:
| Scenario | Transfers per day | SOL burned per day | New SOL created per day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every eligible device, one single-signature transfer | 82 million | About 205 | About 62,800 |
| Every eligible device, two signatures per transfer | 82 million | About 410 | About 62,800 |
| Break-even, single-signature transfers | About 25 billion | About 62,800 | About 62,800 |
The video notes that 25 billion transfers a day is about three for every person on Earth. In the best case, the burn falls short by about 300 times, or 150 times with two signatures.
Solana’s own engineers reached a similar conclusion. A written fee proposal says that at about 3,000 transactions per second, the network burns “on the order of 648” SOL a day from signature fees. The proposal says that is several orders of magnitude below daily inflation of about 60,000 SOL.
Did Solana vote to burn more SOL?
No. The proposal to burn more SOL, SIMD-0553, failed. This resource fee burn would have set fees by how much computing a transaction uses, measured in what Solana calls compute units. Some commentary described it as burning 14 times more SOL daily.
The vote closed on August 28, 2026. According to Decrypt, it reached 53.9% support but needed two-thirds to pass. Decrypt also put the larger burn, had it passed, at up to about 9,000 SOL a day depending on network activity. That is still well under the roughly 62,800 SOL the network creates.
The video notes that one commentary video promoting the bigger burn went up on October 6, more than a month after the vote had failed.
What did the double disinflation vote change?
The double disinflation proposal, SIMD-0550, passed narrowly. According to the video, it had not been switched on as of October 11, 2026. A headline shown in the video said the vote passed “by a hair” in a dramatic finish, after a Kraken-linked validator switched sides.
This proposal burns nothing. It slows the creation of new SOL faster. Under the current schedule the inflation rate drops 15% each year. SIMD-0550 would make it drop 30% a year. The video says the proposal page still showed a status of “review” and the live network was still reporting the old 15% schedule on October 11.
Who earns fees when apps on Solana get busy?
Validators earn the extra priority fees that busy apps pay, and none of that money is burned. The video’s fair counterargument is that Samsung’s dollars may not stay idle. Once on Solana, they may be traded, lent or used in apps, and those apps pay more to get their transactions through quickly.
That extra charge is called a priority fee. Under SIMD-0096, Solana’s documents say 100% of priority fees go to the validator. The video says validators share that income with their stakers. Whether any of it reaches stakers depends on the individual validator. Either way, priority fees do not reduce the supply of SOL. Only the 50% burn on base fees does that.
What does SOL inflation cost holders who don’t stake?
Inflation shrinks the network share of anyone whose SOL is not staked. The video plays a clip of a Solana co-founder who says inflation is “a cost to non-stakers and an equal gain to stakers.” He adds that the two add up to zero for the network as a whole.
The video’s figures:
- About 69% of all SOL is staked, so most new coins go to stakers.
- On the current 15% schedule, there will be about 12% more SOL by the end of 2030.
- An unstaked holder would own about 10% less of Solana than today.
- If the double disinflation change is switched on, supply grows closer to 9% by 2030, which is still more coins.
Staking has its own risks and trade-offs, which the video does not cover.
SOL price ladder: 100 vs 1,000 SOL
The video offers a simple ladder so holders can find their own row. The video stresses this is arithmetic, not a forecast.
| SOL price | 100 SOL | 1,000 SOL | SOL needed for $1 million |
|---|---|---|---|
| $110 | About $11,000 | About $110,000 | About 9,100 |
| $250 | $25,000 | $250,000 | 4,000 |
| $500 | $50,000 | $500,000 | 2,000 |
| $1,000 | $100,000 | $1,000,000 | 1,000 |
To read the ladder, find the row closest to your holding. The video’s wider point is that the dollar figure is only part of the picture. Total supply also grows over time, and how a holder’s share of that supply changes depends partly on whether their coins are staked.
The video is clear about what this analysis does not prove. It doesn’t prove SOL can’t rise. Price is whatever buyers will pay, and demand can grow even while supply grows. It doesn’t prove SOL will rise either. In the video’s words, 82 million phones don’t buy Solana. They send dollars.
What to watch next
A few developments could change the math:
- Samsung’s rollout. Samsung says in-store payments may come later. Watch how many of the 82 million eligible devices are actually used.
- SIMD-0550 activation. Check whether the network’s reported inflation schedule moves from 15% to 30% disinflation.
- Future burn proposals. SIMD-0553 failed, but fee changes can return to a vote.
- The inflation rate. Solana’s getInflationRate data shows the live figure, which the video used for its October 11 numbers.
The video’s closing argument is that the question was never how many phones. It was how many coins exist when you sell, who wants them, and who receives the new coins the network creates along the way.
Sources
- Samsung Newsroom: Samsung Wallet stablecoin access for eligible Galaxy users
- Solana: Samsung Wallet announcement
- Solana docs: Fees
- Solana docs: Fee structure
- Solana docs: getInflationRate
- SIMD-0553: Resource fee burn
- SIMD-0550: Double disinflation
- SIMD-0096: Priority fees to validators
- Decrypt: Solana governance vote results
Frequently asked questions
Does Samsung Wallet buy Solana?
No. According to Samsung's release, Samsung Wallet will let eligible US Galaxy users hold and send USDC, with partners including Solana and Sui providing blockchain network support and Coinbase safeguarding the USDC via Coinbase Prime Vault. Users move digital dollars, not SOL.
How much does a Solana transaction cost?
Solana's documented base fee is 5,000 lamports per signature, and a lamport is one billionth of a SOL. That makes 0.000005 SOL, a small fraction of a cent at the prices in the video. Half is burned and half goes to the validator.
How much new SOL is created each day?
According to the video, the network reported 3.6% annual inflation on October 11, 2026, applied to a total supply of about 635.6 million SOL. The video works that out to about 62,800 new SOL a day, paid out as staking rewards.
Did Solana pass a fee burn increase?
No. SIMD-0553, the resource fee burn proposal, closed on August 28, 2026 with 53.9% support, according to Decrypt. It needed two-thirds to pass.
Is the $30,720 SOL price prediction realistic?
The video argues the math behind it is flawed. The prediction treats $18 trillion of tokenized stocks as if it were Solana's own value, but Solana earns fees for moving those assets, not the value of the assets themselves.
Full video transcript
From the video's captions, lightly formatted. Captions can mishear names and numbers, so check figures against the article above.
Here is the announcement from this week. 82 million Galaxy devices in the US from the end of October. The Samsung wallet can send digital dollars over the Solana chain. So, that should be good. 82 million Samsung phones.
So, can they retire you by 2030? Here's the honest math. If every one of those phones sent money over Salana every single day, the network would burn about 205 soul a day. But the same network makes about 62,800 brand new Salana a day. That's about 300 times more.
So, by the end of this video, you'll have your own row on a ladder, what your soul is worth at a few prices, and how much of Salana you still own in 2030. Work out roughly how many soul you've got because you will need it near the end of this video. So, first the version that you've probably already seen need to reach that number if Solana reaches $30,720 per coin. And you need $5 million. Let's be sure. $5 million to retire.
You need $162.7 Solana today to retire comfortably by 2030. Based on today's prices, that's about $20,000 in Solana today. $162.7 Solana at about $110 a coin on October 11th, 2026. That's about $17,800. Retire by 30. So, where does $30,720 a coin come from?
Well, 11% of 164 trillion is about $18 trillion. Right now, Solana's market cap is only about $70 billion. So, how much of an X increase would that be? If Sana just captures 11% of the tokenization market, that's a $256X per soul. Right now, one soul, let's just say, is going for $120 per coin.
Well, a $256X would bring the price of one soul to about $30,720 per coin. again if that count. Well, their idea is that Salana gets 11% of the world's stocks moved onto blockchain, $18 trillion. Then they treat that $18 trillion like it's the value of Salana itself. We'll come back to that $18 trillion number near the end because there's a problem in it. Now, I know what you're thinking.
Every year it's a new big company. The coin is supposed to take off and you're still waiting. This time it's Samsung. So, let's look at what Samsung actually signed up for.
Arrival 3 to 5 business days. Transfers after 4 p.m. are processed the next business day. Please continue to hold. That's the pitch. Send money home in seconds.
Samsung's own release says 82 million US devices, phones that can run it, not people using it. Then this line additional aspects of the service including infrastructure and blockchain network support will be provided by separate partners with the required technical capabilities including Solana and Sooie and the dollars Coinbase holds them safeguarding all USDC in Samsung wallet via Coinbase Prime Vault. USDC is a digital dollar. So the person sending money holds digital dollars, not Salana.
That the consumer is using and moving USDC and not buying Salana directly. Samsung can sponsor or abstract the fees and Salana's low fees are fantastic for utility. But they also mean a direct fee capture is very small here. Let me put the numbers on it. Salana's documented base fee is 5,000 lamp ports.
To put it in context on how small that fee is, it's 0.00005 Salana per signature and that's at $116 Salana price token reference point. That is about 610,000 of a dollar. Half of the base fee is burned and half goes to the Salana's own documents say the fee is a base fee of 5,000 lamports per signature. A lamp port is a billionth of a salana and it's split 50% burned and 50% to the validator. So the computer that handled it.
So one transfer burns about 300s of a penny. The Salana Foundation's own president says use is what makes the coin worth more.
Uh value creation for blockchains outside of Bitcoin. When you think about the infrastructure blockchains and how they create value, what it is is like any other tech platform, there's usage which results in fee revenue which results in because you know these networks are userowned infrastructure uh that that fee revenue ends up uh going back to token holders at the end of the day. So for everything outside of Bitcoin uh what really matters uh is revenue and revenue comes from usage. And
that's the theory. But on a Samsung transfer, the fee is a fraction of a penny and only half of it gets burned. Now, nobody puts this part in the headline, new coin. Salana makes brand new Salana every day and pays it to people who lock up their coins to help run it. That's called staking.
On October 11th, 2026, the network itself reported 3.6% a year on about 635.6 million Salana. So that's about 62,800 new salana a day. And you can do the math on that. That's close to $7 million a day created. We've got 4 days of outflows in a row.
And it adds up to about $21 million. That's small compared to the $1.6 billion that came in since the launch. At the same time, the chain creates roughly $48 million of new tokens per week. So the funds do not absorb
the Samsung best case. Every phone sending money every day burns about 205 soul about 300 times less. If a transfer needs two signature 150 times either way it's not close to burn as much as a network makes you need about 25 billion transfers a day. About three for every person on Earth. Quick one before we get to the next part.
Everything that I have just showed you came out of Samsung's own release. Salana's own fee rules and the live network's own count. And running the math on your own coins is the job that we do inside of SGS system at altcoin pro. Most people who get this far in the video close the tab and then they do nothing with it. If you're the one who won't the first link in the description and the book your call while those are still available.
And we are on our way to 400,000 subscribers at 396,000 right now. Make sure you smash that subscribe button. and we'll see you on the inside. And this isn't just my math. Salana's own engineers wrote it down. This is a written proposal to change Salana's fees under negligible soul burn today.
It says at the current 3,000 transactions per second, the network burns on the order of 648 Salana a day from signature fees alone. several orders of magnitude below daily inflation about 60,000 Salana tokens a day. TPS means transactions per second and inflation here just means new coin. Now you might have heard Salana is about to burn a lot more. Here's the claim from the same altcoin daily video.
Reduces over time in line with a predetermined curve. And what this proposal does is it speeds up that curve by 2x. Right? So to get to the terminal inflation rate of Salana now will take half the time.
So point is Salana validators back proposal to burn 14x more soul daily in speed up disinflation. Soul
burn 14 times more Solana daily. That's the proposal I just read. It went to vote in August of 2026. It failed. Decrypt reported it landed at 53.9% support but it needed twothirds
to uh increase the burn. So bit like uh EIP559 on Ethereum where where effectively there's a uh a burn of the asset based on how much uh uh how congested the chain is. This is a slightly more nuanced and and and complex proposal which um would shift the amount of fees that you pay um based on how much resource your units which we call compute units on the network. Um and this effectively would make the every transaction different in fees based on how how many compute units you're using. Uh and and that one failed.
Um and
the vote closed on August 28th, 2026. That video went up on October 6th. And even if it had passed, Decrypt put the bigger burn at up to about 9,000 soul a day. Still well under the 62,800 the network makes. Now, here's the one that did pass.
Salana vote to double disinflation passes by a hair in dramatic finish. Salana's first networkwide vote went down to the wire with a Kraken linked validator switching sides before the disinflation proposal narrowly.
And this one doesn't burn anything. It makes new souls slow down faster. The proposal says it will reduce the inflation schedule by increasing the disinflation rate from the current 15% rate to 30%. In plain words, right now the rate of new coins drops 15% every year, and this makes it drop 30% a year. But look at the top of that page, status review.
And on October 11th, the Live Network still reported the old 15% schedule. Voted for? Yes. Switched on? Not yet.
So here's the fair argument on the other side.
It comes from what happens after those transfers. Those dollars sit on Solana and they tend to get traded or lent out or used in apps and those apps pay a lot more to get their transactions through quickly. So Samsung brings the dollars and the apps on Solana then brings the fees. The transfer itself is not the business. The business is the activity that follows and we can
that's fair. The transfer is small. what happens after it can be bigger. So who gets that money?
The only way that a general purpose smart contract I think platform makes sense to to capture value is on priority fees and effectively charging for the first you know 20 milliseconds or 200 whatever the the fidelity in that layer of finance is charging for those users that want that access that early access more. And it doesn't matter if that value goes to the validator in terms of priority fees.
The extra fee for going first is called a priority fee. And Salana's own docs say it plainly. 100% goes to the validator. None is burned. So that money goes to the computers that run Salana.
They share it with the people who stake with them and it doesn't burn a single coin. The first time I ever looked at these types of details on coins on the creation or basically inflation of the coin, it kind of freaked me out. But it is par for the course. And of course, over time, this is kind of necessary for adoption. If everyone does start using Salana, not just the Samsung phones, but for a lot of other things.
As we know, we're going to have adoption on XRP. We're going to have adoption on different payment rails, Salana. So, they are going to need more coins available. So, who pays for all those new coins? Here's Salana's co-founder.
Does inflation matter? To an individual who is in a specific tax regime, it might matter, but to the network as a whole, um, it is a cost to non-stakers and an equal gain to stakers and those add up to zero. So that in inflation mathematically from an accounting pers
a cost to non-stakers. If your soul just sits there, the new coins come out and they cut from your slice. About 69% of all soul is staked. So most of the new coin go to them. Now run the schedule forward.
On the current 15% schedule, there will be about 12% more Salana by the end of 2030. If your coins aren't staked, you'll own about 10% less of Salana than you do right now. If that August vote gets switched on, it's closer to 9% more Salana, but it's still more coins. So, here's the ladder, and this is math, not a forecast. 100 soul is about $11,000 at $110 each.
At 250, it's $25,000. At 500, it's 50,000. And at $1,000 per coin, it's $100,000. And we multiply more here. At a,000 soul holding, it's about $110,000.
At $110, at 250, it's $250,000. At 500, half a million. And at $1,000 per coin, it's a million bucks. Now, let's flip that. To have a million dollars in soul at $110, you need about $9,100 coins.
At $250, you would need 4,000 coins. At $500, you need 2,000 coins. And at $1,000, you need a,000 coins. Now, back to that $18 trillion there. $30,720 divides $18 trillion by the soul that exists now. By 2030, there's about $710 million sold.
Same $18 trillion. So now it's about $25,400 a coin. But the bigger problem is this. $18 trillion of stocks sitting on Salana are still stocks. Salana gets paid a fee to move them. A fee like the one that we just measured, not the value of the stock.
So fair is fair. And here's what none of this proves. It doesn't prove Salana can't go up. The price is whatever buyers willing to pay. And people can want more soul even while soul gets made.
Samsung says paying in stores may come later and the August cut could get switched on. But it doesn't prove soul is going to go up either. 82 million phones don't buy Salana. They send dollars. So let's go back to the title.
Can 82 million Samsung phones retire you by 2030? Well, not through the burn. The phones send dollars and the network makes far more new Salana than they could ever burn. So, the question for your retirement was never how many phones. It was how many coins exist when you sell, who wants them, and whether yours are on the side receiving the new one.
And this is also why I personally believe in running with market cycles. You don't have to buy and hold diamond hands forever. When the price of Salana gets to a price that is exhausted, it looks like it's going to turn back down. Well, that's why I like to take profits. Now, I've unfortunately rode the crypto roller coaster since 2015, and there's been two cycles I didn't take profits on.
The last one I did, and this next one I will as well. So, I do have one question for you in the comments. How many Salana are you holding? Just the row, not the specific number. Are you under 100, 100 to a,000 or over a,000?
Everything in this video came from records that anybody can open. Samsung's own release, Salana's own fee rules, the proposals on a GitHub, the live network's own count, the 82 million was right there. And so were the 62,800 new coins a day. Almost nobody reads that far down. Working out what your coins are really up against, new coins included, and where they should sit while this plays out.
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