Solana is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain built to support decentralized applications at scale. Rather than relying on sharding or layered architectures, it maintains a single unified ledger, an approach intended to avoid liquidity fragmentation while still processing thousands of transactions per second with sub-second finality and minimal fees. The network combines Proof of Stake with a mechanism called Proof of History, which provides a cryptographic clock for timestamping transactions and reduces the coordination overhead between validators. This design enables parallel execution of smart contracts across multiple CPU cores, along with protocols such as Gulf Stream that forward transactions ahead of block finalization to shorten confirmation times. Founded in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko, the project is supported by the Switzerland-based Solana Foundation and has drawn backing from major venture firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, Multicoin Capital, and Alameda Research. The native token, SOL, is used to pay transaction fees, participate in on-chain governance, and secure the network through staking. Beyond its core infrastructure role, SOL sits within a broader ecosystem of decentralized finance, consumer applications, and institutional integrations spanning payments and tokenized assets.
Seoul's third-largest internet-only bank is the first Korean digital bank to sign a one-to-one strategic MOU with the Solana Foundation, opening a path from remittance rails into payments and…
BTC sat out a risk-on move in Asian stocks even as Brent slid below $80 and an Iran peace roadmap took shape, leaving the token stuck below early-June levels while altcoins bled harder.
The headline number is the lengthening streak, not any single week: six straight weeks of net outflows across US spot BTC products are quietly reshaping the institutional flow picture alongside a…
The numbers are wide, but the framework they share is what matters: each call prices ETH as the backbone of a tokenized-asset market rather than a standalone trade.
A single newly created address sized up $48M of 20x leverage shorts in one shot, the kind of concentrated bet that draws attention when it lands inside a single venue's liquidation stack.
The fee is the story: at 0.14%, MSSE and MSOL sit a basis point below every major US competitor — and Morgan Stanley's $1.8T distribution reach means the bid is for advisor shelf space, not retail…
Iran's renewed order to close the strait, sent the same week Trump signed a 60-day MoU, leaves traders with the exact uncertainty the deal was meant to remove — and oil's direction from here.
A single wallet absorbing $16.55M of SOL at ~$70.5 signals quiet, sized conviction rather than panic-driven dip buying — the kind of flow that tightens exchange-side liquidity when it lands.
Strategy's preferred-share product breaks its $100 peg for the first time, half the BTC supply is underwater, and 243 straight days of fear on the index — yet Morgan Stanley's 14bp ETH and SOL ETF…
Pump.fun's quarterly revenue dropped 36% while Collector Crypt's doubled — same chain, same quarter, opposite trajectories, and CARDS is now the liquid proxy traders are reaching for.
BTC sits just below $62,400 with $450M of longs liquidated in 24 hours, while Strategy's STRC preferred trades below par and miners near $78K cost basis are starting to look like forced sellers.
The chart floor at $59K–$60K is now the level that matters; a break opens the door to the $45K target some traders are already calling, while the altseason thesis quietly falls apart.
The setup the consensus is ignoring — Grayscale's framing of the Clarity Act, Morgan Stanley's spot ETH and SOL ETF amendments, and a macro stack (PMI, copper/gold, Russell 2000) quietly aligning the…
The fee beats Grayscale's 0.15% Mini ETH Trust and Franklin Templeton's 0.19% SOEZ, and the staking-enabled structure — with Figment, Galaxy, and Coinbase Canada as providers — mirrors the playbook…
BTC sits 48% off its $126K October high, $440M in bullish longs just got liquidated, and put demand is rising into the weekend — but the contrarian fuel case is starting to stack up.
The rate hold was priced in — but the dot plot wasn't. Crypto fell even as Trump's signed Iran deal lifted stocks, a sign the Fed, not geopolitics, is driving the tape.
The headline-grabbing flows — Morgan Stanley's $230M ETF launch, BlackRock's BTC income fund, SpaceX's $1.2B treasury — all sit on top of the same unglamorous plumbing: trusted benchmarks that…
Tokenized bond issuers on Solana can now attach Moody’s ratings directly to securities — the same trusted credit signal investors rely on offchain, embedded in the asset itself.
Standard Chartered's $100 UNI target and a 34% weekly HYPE bid are pulling capital out of BTC, with cheaper oil and a softer inflation read handing Warsh an easy first meeting.
The exchange is betting that wrapping on-chain routing in a familiar buy/sell interface is the lever that pulls the next wave of users off CEX rails and into DEX liquidity — and Solana is just the…
Where Zipp's editorial desk has weighed in on this token.
BlackRock tokenized $311 billion on Ethereum. Bitcoin stalled below $65K as jobs data looms. The market looked past everything, and the mood is the story.
Bitcoin reclaimed $64K on $170M of ETF demand while Coldcard wallets bled up to $130M. The flow picture is bullish; the price has not yet been tested.
On a day with only two headlines, the message was structural. Markets shrugged at a custody scare while Washington stalled on the bill that defines US digital asset market structure.
A $70M-plus wallet drain, ETF outflows, and a Coinbase treasury race all point to the same uncomfortable read on institutional rails.
A $70M+ wallet exploit met a market already leaning the wrong way. The real story today is the erosion underneath the price action.
A wallet-firmware exploit and a $1.17B put overhang weigh on BTC as Coinbase reports non-BTC revenue hit 88% of the mix.
Solana is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain designed for mass adoption by providing a fast, secure, and low-cost environment for decentralized applications.
Solana (SOL) is categorised as: Smart Contract Platform, Solana Ecosystem, Layer 1 (L1).
The official Solana site is https://solana.com/.
Most recent Solana coverage: "Toss Bank, Solana Foundation test stablecoin remittances" — read at /en-US/a/toss-bank-solana-foundation-test-stablecoin-remittances.
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