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.
Solana infrastructure firm Helius has acquired Light Protocol, a move that signals a direct push to embed onchain…
The vulnerability sat in a deprecated pool program, not the live mainnet — but the attack shows how legacy Solana AMM code keeps paying out years after the protocol moved on.
Raydium, one of Solana's largest decentralized exchanges, confirmed a $1.34 million exploit targeting a retired…
More than 30 firms — Coinbase, Stripe, Adyen, Ripple, OKX — joined day one, with agent credentials recorded on Polygon, Solana and Base as the network stakes its claim on agentic commerce.
SOL is already -23% month-to-date in June 2026 — the second-worst June in its history, behind a 0.7% historical average that was already skewed negative.
The bounce is mechanical, not structural: SOL is still 11% under its 20-day EMA with all major moving averages pointing down, and ETF outflows keep the bearish tilt alive until flows reverse.
The integration brings $SOL rails into the world's largest live poker tournament series — but the real test is the December Bahamas stop, where winners can opt to take payouts in Solana-based…
Kristin Smith frames the bill as a fork in the road for US-based protocol developers: get the carve-outs right and the talent stays onshore, get them wrong and the next generation of public-chain…
BTC and gold falling together is the structural tell — when both stores of value sell off on the same rate-hike repricing, the macro-hedge thesis that carried the rally is now what's unwinding it.
CME's first broad-cap crypto index future ties regulated derivatives to an eight-coin benchmark — a structural step toward index-style institutional exposure beyond single-asset futures.
The letter from Coinbase, Kraken, Solana, Galaxy, a16z, and ~195 others lands on the same week the House Ways and Means unveiled six companion bills — even as prediction-market odds on passage slip.
BTC and SOL give back double-digit gains while XRP absorbs Fed-driven macro pressure with a sub-8% weekly drawdown — the relative-strength signal matters more than the level itself.
A 30-firm coalition spanning a16z, Coinbase, Kraken, Uniswap, Solana, Aptos and Hyperliquid is pushing to write open-source developer immunity into the market-structure bill before a floor vote.
The relative-strength signal lands on a day the crypto fear index bottomed at a two-month low, with Ethereum up 7.9% on the same session — the rotation is real, but the SOL-specific conviction is…
The chip-led bounce that hammered crypto last week is back — but the beta that drove the selloff hasn't flipped positive yet, leaving majors still deep in the red on the week.
The new bounty product's first major controversy — a misspelled-ticker forehead tattoo that minted a $600K Solana token — is reopening questions about who actually captures upside when memecoin…
Tron's $32.8B lead in May nearly doubles Ethereum's $19.5B and Solana's $18.1B, a gap driven by stablecoin transfer volume rather than speculative trading demand.
Spot crypto ETFs posted a broadly negative week, with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana all recording net outflows while…
The framework of venues, custodians, market makers and rules that move trillions in digital assets is being rewritten in Washington — and the CLARITY Act is the most concrete piece of that rewrite on…
Bridges, flash-loans and key compromises have been engineered out. The remaining risk is bespoke protocol logic — and a single flaw now lands on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, OP Mainnet and…
Where Zipp's editorial desk has weighed in on this token.
BTC just printed its worst quarter since 2022, $4.67B left spot ETFs, and Strategy broke an eight-year buying streak. Read that as bearish, and you're the consensus. Read it as a setup, and you're early.
A brutal quarter and a steady price can both be true. Today's tape reads the difference between conviction and capitulation.
Binance sheds a billion in USDC and USDT, ARB surges 19% on Robinhood Chain flow, and the protocol-health read of the day is a quiet rotation in.
Bitcoin prints its worst quarter since 2022 while Circle nets a bank charter and SWIFT goes on-chain. The crowd is flinching, but the rails are still being built.
Spot BTC ETFs bled $85M while BlackRock quietly snapped $250M, exposing a brittle floor under the recovery narrative.
A 14-day ETF outflow streak ends on the same session the Fed turns hawkish and the US-Iran ceasefire collapses. Two stories, two markets, one confused tape.
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: "Helius acquires Light Protocol to bring onchain privacy to…" — read at /en-US/a/helius-acquires-light-protocol-to-bring-onchain-privacy-to.
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