During 2022 Solana and Polygon have gained great popularity and attention from investors as DeFi cryptos, and are considered to have performed well. The Solana blockchain is capable of fast transactions with low fees and is also needed as dApps and currently Solana is in 10th place on Coinmarketcap. For comparison, the price of Solana on April 30, 2022 was $85, and now April 30, 2023 the price of SOL is $23, so over the year it's down $62 or 0.73% Polygon as a Matic Network at layer-2 that runs on the Ethereum blockchain, also offers fast transactions with low gas fees. Currently Polygon occupies the 9th position on Coinmarketcap. The current price of Polygon is $0.99 while the price of Polygon as of April 30, 2022 is $1.036 so over the year the price of Polygon has fallen by $0.37 or 0.36%.