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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Some people are starting to call this season "Solana Summer."

Solana Hits All-Time High as Coin Rises 14% in 24H

September 6, 2021 – Tortola, British Virgin Islands Cyclos, a new Solana-based DeFi project, has raised a total $2.1 million combined from a private and a public round. The funding will be used to create the first concentrated liquidity automated market maker on Solana, which will enable a host of features never seen before in […] The post Cyclos Raises $2.1 Million To Build Concentrated Liquidity AMM on Solana appeared first on The Daily Hodl.

Cyclos Raises $2.1 Million To Build Concentrated Liquidity AMM on Solana

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Pseudonymous cryptocurrency trader Smart Contracter says one red-hot altcoin is poised to continue its meteoric ascent and become the fourth-largest crypto asset by market cap. Smart Contracter, who correctly predicted Bitcoin's bottom in 2018, tells his 161,000 Twitter followers that Solana's market capitalization is destined to exceed that of Binance Coin (BNB). Currently, the fourth-placed […] The post Trader Who Called Bitcoin Bottom Predicts This Blazing Altcoin Will Overtake Binance Coin appeared first on The Daily Hodl.

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Comparing the crypto adoption curve to other technology, Yakovenko said, "We're maybe at the phase where email started working on the internet."

Solana CEO Anatoly Yakovenko: Here's Why We're Not in a Crypto Bubble

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Solana's (CRYPTO: SOL) price has increased 10.69% over the past 24 hours to $140.75. Over the past week, SOL has experienced an uptick of over 64.0%, moving from $85.96 to its current price.

Solana's Price Increased 64% This Week

Growing buzz around blockchain-based smart contracts has fueled massive gains in cryptocurrencies like sol, ether and Cardano's ada.

Solana Overtakes Dogecoin As Ethereum Price Hits $4,000 For First Time Since $1 Trillion Crypto Crash

Crypto assets have seen significant gains over the last month and one such digital currency, solana (SOL) has propelled itself into the top ten rankings and recently flipped the crypto asset dogecoin's market cap position. As of Friday, solana currently holds the seventh-largest market valuation out of all the coins in existence with a market […]

Solana Taps Another All-Time High Eclipsing Dogecoin's Market Cap, SOL Jumped Over 300% Last Month

Audius (CRYPTO: AUDIO) is rallying on the back of an announcement that it integrates with Solana-based (CRYPTO: SOL) nonfungible tokens (NFTs).

Audius Rallies After Integration Of Solana-Based NFT Feature

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) or Solana (CRYPTO: SOL), which is better? Massive gains in the latter have prompted that question on Twitter.

Is Solana Better Than Ethereum? Twitter Buzzes With Questions As Crypto Strikes Massive Gains

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has weighed in a major dogecoin upgrade, designed to secure the dogecoin blockchain reduce transaction fees, calling it "important"...

‘Important'—Elon Musk Backs Major Dogecoin Upgrade As Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano And Solana Send The Crypto Market Price Towards $2.3 Trillion

Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) has displaced Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) as the seventh-largest cryptocurrency by market cap as the latter's relentless ascent continues. What Happened: Solana now has a market capitalization of $40.05 billion, which is greater than DOGE's market cap of $38.6 billion.

Solana Flips Dogecoin To Become World's 7th Largest Crypto: What's Going On?

Amidst growing NFT and DeFi use, Solana continues its propulsive rise and dethrones the leading meme coin.

Solana Flips Dogecoin to Become Seventh-Largest Cryptocurrency

Crypto analyst Michaël van de Poppe is analyzing five altcoins that he believes could surge in price this month. The analyst says layer-one projects like Cardano (ADA), Solana (SOL) and Avalanche (AVAX) are currently doing great, so similar projects are likely to follow suit. Layer-one projects are built into basic blockchain protocols to help improve […] The post Here Are the Top 5 Altcoins To Watch in September, According to Analyst Michaël Van De Poppe appeared first on The Daily Hodl.

Here Are the Top 5 Altcoins To Watch in September, According to Analyst Michaël Van De Poppe

SOL is the eighth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

Solana Price Shoots Up 14% to Score Another All-Time High

Solana's NFT scene is picking up, and now owners can display their collectibles on the growing crypto-fueled music platform.

Crypto Music App Audius Now Showcases Both Ethereum and Solana NFTs

UXD joins a growing list of algorithmic stablecoins aiming to take market share from larger, centralized incumbents like Circle and Tether.

Solana Stablecoin UXD Raises $3M, Aims to Expand DeFi Outside Ethereum

Blockchain analytics firm Santiment is pointing to bullish on-chain data for Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL) and Cardano (ADA) as the crypto market heats up again. Starting with Ethereum, Santiment highlights that Ethereum miners have been stacking ETH aggressively throughout the asset's recent recovery from its three-month low of $1,707. “Ethereum miner balances have absolutely skyrocketed […] The post Analytics Firm Santiment Points to ‘Historic' Signals on Ethereum and Solana, Says Cardano Can Run Higher appeared first on The Daily Hodl.

Analytics Firm Santiment Points to ‘Historic' Signals on Ethereum and Solana, Says Cardano Can Run Higher

The second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization added an additional 6% in the past 24 hours as of 5:02 a.m. Eastern, trading at $3,537.

Ether Extends Gains Past $3,500, Bitcoin Remains Stuck Below $50,000, And Solana Pulls Back

A popular crypto trader thinks Cardano (ADA) and Solana (SOL) have the potential to deliver massive gains during the next leg of the bull run. Crypto market analyst Jason Pizzino shares with his 202,000 YouTube subscribers that Cardano and Solana are flashing bullish signals as the digital asset market heats up. Pizzino highlights that ADA […] The post Cardano and Solana Flashing ‘Boom Signals,' According to Crypto Analyst Jason Pizzino appeared first on The Daily Hodl.

Cardano and Solana Flashing ‘Boom Signals,' According to Crypto Analyst Jason Pizzino

Now the world's eighth-largest cryptocurrency, Solana has soared 255% over the past month.

Solana Skyrockets To New High Above $130—Amassing Nearly $40 Billion In Market Value As Competition With Ethereum Heats Up

What Happened: Market-leading altcoins amassed significant gains from institutional funds over the past seven days as Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) continued to record outflows for an eighth consecutive week.

Institutions Load Up On $24M Of ETH, ADA, SOL As BTC Records 8 Consecutive Weeks Of Outflows

Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) has shot up over 6000% since the beginning of 2021 beating the year-to-date returns of major coins like Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), and Bitcoin Cas

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The rally in major cryptocurrencies took a pause on Monday night as the global cryptocurrency market cap fell 3.12% to $2.03 trillion.

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