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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In today's Crypto for Advisors, Josh Olszewicz from Canary Capital provides a breakdown of Solana - where it came from, and what's happening with the asset today.

Crypto for Advisors: Breaking Down Solana

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The following article is adapted from The Block's newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.

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Classover, a Nasdaq-listed firm, has announced a securities purchase agreement to issue up to $500 million in senior secured convertible notes, aimed at establishing a solana ( SOL)-based treasury reserve.

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Solana is leading the crypto rebound as bulls drive the token toward $160, buoyed by surging user activity and rising on-chain engagement. Despite broader market jitters, SOL has rallied nearly 7% over 24 hours, helped by record transaction throughput and a spike in daily active addresses.

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The rebound in digital assets since early April has been marked by a significant shift in activity, with Asian trading hours gaining market share in global bitcoin BTC, ether ETH and solana SOL spot trading volumes, while the U.S. steadily loses ground.

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Solana, XRP and Dogecoin have trailed Bitcoin as trade tensions and weak retail demand fuel a broader crypto pullback.

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As part of its growing Solana embrace, including a nearly $100 million treasury, DeFi Development Corp. now has its own liquid staking token.

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Solana (SOL) faced renewed downside pressure after multiple failed attempts to break above the $158–$159 resistance zone.

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Market watchers say that major tokens are showing signs of bottoming out, even as geopolitical tensions and tariff fears continue to cloud the near-term outlook.

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The SEC raised concerns over staking-linked ETFs a day after stating that most crypto staking falls outside the scope of securities laws.

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The SEC said it asked the issuers behind new staking ETFs to delay the launch of the funds until the agency's concerns are resolved.

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