Solana

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Solana is a crypto coin with a circulating supply of 305.5M and total supply at 510.2M. Solana is represented by its symbol SOL and is one of the most popular cryptos in the world. Go through the project details and whitepaper to know more details about Solana and its investment opportunities.

 
 
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Highlights of the Project

What makes Solana different? What are the unique features of Solana?

Low cost, forever

Solana's scalability ensures transactions remain less than $0.01 for both developers and users.

Fast, forever

Solana is all about speed, with 400 millisecond block times. And as hardware gets faster, so does the network.

Decentralized

Not only is Solana ultra-fast and low cost, it is censorship resistant. Meaning, the network will remain open for applications to run freely and transactions will never be stopped....

About the Project

Learn more about Solana project and its usecases

What Is Solana?

Solana is a decentralized blockchain platfrom built to enable scalable, user-friendly apps for the world. Solana achieves consensus using a proof-of-stake mechanism, as well as a "proof-of-history" mechanism. Solana ensures composability between ecosystem projects by maintaining a single global state as the network scales.

Solana is the fastest blockchain in the world and the fastest growing ecosystem in crypto, with over 400 projects spanning DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and more. Solana's scalability ensures transactions remain less than $0.01 for both developers and users. Solana is all about speed, with 400 millisecond block times. And as hardware gets faster, so does the network. Not only is Solana ultra-fast and low cost, it is censorship resistant. Meaning, the network will remain open for applications to run freely and transactions will never be stopped.

History Of Solana?

2017 - Anatoly Yakovenko published a whitepaper describing Proof of History, a technique for keeping time between computers that do not trust one another.

2018 - Greg Fitzgerald, who had previously worked with Anatoly at Qualcomm Incorporated, began prototyping the first open source implementation of Anatoly's whitepaper. The project was published to GitHub under the name Silk in the loomprotocol organization. Later, the team created the Solana GitHub organization and renamed Greg's prototype Silk to Solana and scaled up the technology to run on cloud-based networks, published a 50-node, permissioned, public testnet supporting 250,000 transactions per second.

Roadmap of Solana

  • 2017 - Whitepaper published
  • 2018
    • Single node testnet
    • Multinode testnet
    • Public testnet
    • Smart Contracts SDK
    • Live mainnet
  • 2019 - Token distribution

Where To Buy Solana?

You can buy Solana from the popular exchanges like Binance, Kraken, Coinbase, Uphold, FTX etc.


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RECENT NEWS ON Solana

Read the latest news about Solana from across the globe.

Solana's co-founder sees potential for its blockchain to be the 'Apple of crypto' - TechCrunch

Mon, 29 May 2023 15:00:55 GMT: Solana's co-founder sees potential for its blockchain to be the 'Apple of crypto'  TechCrunch

Solana Has Potential To Be the ‘Apple’ of Crypto, According to SOL Co-Founder Raj Gokal - The Daily Hodl

Wed, 31 May 2023 11:46:19 GMT: Solana Has Potential To Be the ‘Apple’ of Crypto, According to SOL Co-Founder Raj Gokal  The Daily Hodl

‘It’s A Big Deal’—Crypto Suddenly Braced For A Huge China Earthquake After Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Cardano, Dogecoin, Polygon And Solana Price Swings - Forbes

Tue, 30 May 2023 12:15:00 GMT: ‘It’s A Big Deal’—Crypto Suddenly Braced For A Huge China Earthquake After Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Cardano, Dogecoin, Polygon And Solana Price Swings  Forbes

What you need to know about Solana’s latest update - AMBCrypto News

Wed, 31 May 2023 08:31:38 GMT: What you need to know about Solana’s latest update  AMBCrypto News

Solana (SOL) Price Should Be ‘Bare Minimum’ 3x Higher, According to InvestAnswers - The Daily Hodl

Tue, 30 May 2023 18:45:54 GMT: Solana (SOL) Price Should Be ‘Bare Minimum’ 3x Higher, According to InvestAnswers  The Daily Hodl

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