Solana

Solana is an open source project implementing a new, high-performance, permissionless blockchain. Solana is a general purpose blockchain similar to Ethereum. End user applications as of now include decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFT), marketplaces, games, and more. It aims to improve scalability by introducing a proof-of-history (PoH) consensus combined with the underlying proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus of the blockchain.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko published a whitepaper describing Proof of History, a technique that would become critical to Solana's blockchain infrastructure, in Nov. 2017. 

Co-founder Greg Fitzgerald, who had worked with Yakovenko at Qualcomm, began prototyping the open source implementation of the whitepaper. It was published under the name Silk in 2018. 

After starting the company under the name Loom, Yakovenko, Fitzgerald, and other co-founders rebranded to Solana. Solana launched on Mainnet Beta in March 2020.

Solana was built to facilitate the development of scalable, user-friendly decentralized apps with low costs and high speeds for transactions.

Solana believes its unique blockchain architecture that combines the proof-of-stake consensus mechanism and its own proof of history mechanism is the key to achieving these goals.

Proof of history works almost like a cryptographic timestamp that proves that an event has occurred at a specific time. It enables the blockchain to work fast while maintaining security and decentralization.

There are about 304 million SOL in circulation as of November 2021. Solana has an initial inflation rate of 8%, which will decrease by 15% a year until it reaches a long-term inflation rate of 1.5%. SOL is Solana’s native token.

Solana competes with other blockchain platforms such as Ethereum and Avalanche to host crypto projects such as NFTs, decentralized exchanges, and gaming. 

Developers and users flocked from Ethereum to Solana due to high transaction costs, but many could gravitate back towards Ethereum if it manages to lower costs, which could happen as a result of the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade and layer 2 rollups. 

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Bitcoin

Dogecoin

Bitcoin experienced a notable rebound after falling to its lowest price in over a month, hitting $91,816 on Monday, according to CoinMarketCap data.

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A popular crypto analyst is still bullish on a memecoin that's already ripped by more than 4,000% in two months. The pseudonymous trader known as Altcoin Sherpa tells his 236,500 followers on the social media platform X that he's still accumulating the Solana (SOL)-based memecoin Fartcoin (FARTCOIN). “I'm filling a bit around $0.

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In 2022, the Terra blockchain and UST stablecoin imploded, leaving a trail of devastation that only worsened when FTX collapsed later that year. The crypto asset solana (SOL) took a hard hit, plunging to alarming lows. By January 2023, SOL was scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of price.

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Slinky, a blockchain project that uses ZK compression, has launched an airdrop to distribute 10% of its total supply to 27.7 million wallets on Solana. The project utilizes ZK-compressed token accounts, a storage mechanism that allows launching a massive airdrop and keeps costs low.

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Solana, a layer-1 decentralized network, made significant strides user activity and more in 2024. And that's meant good things for its native token SOL.

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A co-founder of Ethereum (ETH) rival Solana (SOL) is reportedly facing a lawsuit for allegedly misappropriating the income earned from his former wife's crypto holdings.

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A closely followed crypto analyst is predicting where the price of Bitcoin (BTC) and Solana (SOL) will peak during the current market cycle.

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The price of Solana (SOL) fell to the expected support of $177 on Dec. 22. The bulls bought the dips and continued their upward correction.

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You can't yet trade Solana futures on a CFTC-regulated exchange, but Volatility Shares is filing for a futures ETF anyway.

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Analytics firm Glassnode says Solana's (SOL) momentum on the monthly time frame is waning in comparison to Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).

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Stephen Akridge, a co-founder of blockchain platform Solana, faces a lawsuit from his ex-wife, Elisa Rossi, alleging he misappropriated millions in solana (SOL) token profits. Rossi claims Akridge exploited his advanced crypto knowledge to secretly collect her staking rewards.

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A distraught father whose daughter has a rare brain tumor was pleasantly surprised by a multimillion-dollar memecoin gift on Christmas day after starting a campaign to raise money for research into a cure for the disease.

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Solana prices have suffered some notable declines over the last several weeks, dropping more than 30% since reaching a fresh, all-time high near the end of November.

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The co-founder of Animoca Brands, a leading firm in the blockchain gaming space, had their X social media account hacked and used to promote a fake Solana (SOL) token.

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Over the past two years, solana (SOL) has experienced extraordinary growth, with a reported price appreciation of 2,143%, according to a comprehensive study by Glassnode researchers Ukuria OC and Cryptovizart. From Rock Bottom to Billion-Dollar Liquidity The Glassnode report examines the asset's recovery, its competitive performance against major cryptocurrencies, and the factors driving its momentum.

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Economist Henrik Zeberg is turning bullish on one Ethereum (ETH) rival while predicting a broader altcoin market breakout. Zeberg tells his 171,400 followers on the social media platform X that Solana (SOL) may be about to surge after a retracement. The analyst uses the Elliott Wave theory to forecast a massive run for Solana.

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Solana‘s (CRYPTO: SOL) growth over the past two years, marked by a staggering 2,143% price increase, is rooted in a substantial $55 billion influx of new capital, according to a recent analysis by Glassnode. The report, released earlier in the week, delves into the network's underlying dynamics, revealing robust investor demand that, despite profit-taking, hasn't reached levels traditionally associated with market tops.

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The pattern has its roots in the behavioral aspects of trading and often sets the stage for bigger bull runs.

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Hedera

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Ethereum

In a sea of noise, the real winners of Web3 will be those who turn raw on-chain data into actionable signals for sustainable growth.

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Mike Ippolito of Blockworks sees a resurging Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), an evolution for Solana's (CRYPTO: SOL) and the expanding role of stablecoins and AI as key trends in crypto in 2025. What Happened: In a thread on X on Sunday, Ippolito said he believes the U.S. will dominate the global crypto scene, with domestic conferences surpassing Asian counterparts in size and influence.

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The latest price analysis by Coinidol.com report, the price of Solana (SOL) has gone below the moving average lines reaching a low above the $171 low.

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California men Gabriel Hay and Gavin Mayo were charged by the Department of Justice over a series of alleged NFT investment scams.

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A momentum indicator recently flipped bullish for XRP, Solana (SOL) and two other altcoins, according to a popular crypto analyst. Ali Martinez tells his 101,300 followers on the social media platform X that the Tom DeMark (TD) Sequential Indicator presented buy signals on the four-hour charts for XRP, SOL, Maker (MKR) and World Network (WLD).

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A widely followed crypto analyst is suddenly turning bullish on one Ethereum (ETH)-based altcoin after its correction this week. In a new thread on the social media platform X, crypto trader Justin Bennett tells 115,500 followers that CRV, the native token of stablecoin lending platform CurveDAO, could soar more than 600% from its current value.

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