Solana


Policy

Solana Foundation: SOL Is 'Not a Security'

The native token of the Solana blockchain, SOL, was alleged to be an unregistered security in this week’s SEC lawsuits against crypto exchanges Binance.US and Coinbase.

Solana party in Lisbon (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Web3

Kraken NFT Marketplace Launches With Support for Ethereum, Solana and Polygon Collections

Now out of its public beta test, the platform has expanded to include over 250 NFT collections.

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Videos

Active Addresses on Blockchain Hit All-Time High: A16z Data

According to a16z crypto's State of Crypto Index, active addresses across various blockchains hit an all-time high for the second month in a row in May. The venture fund notes 19.47 million active addresses across blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Optimism, and more. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents "The Chart of the Day."

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Markets

DeFi Unfazed by SEC's Classification of Tokens as Securities

These forces will likely only drive “more financial activity to DeFi,” one trader said.

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Markets

BNB Drops to 6-Month Low as ADA, MATIC, SOL Lead Altcoin Tumble

Cryptocurrencies the SEC characterized as securities in recent lawsuits led the drop among altcoins, while BTC traded mostly flat.

Los traders inicialmente subieron los precios de xmon para obtener un airdrop de sudo, el token de gobernanza de SudoSwap. (Getty Images)

Web3

Find Satoshi Labs Rolls Out AI Tool That Turns Selfies Into NFTs

The parent company behind Web3 game STEPN is releasing GNT V3, which will allow users to turn their selfies into digital artworks on the Solana blockchain.

GNT V3 (Find Satoshi Lab)

Web3

Web3 Move-to-Earn App STEPN Integrates Apple Pay for In-Game Purchases

The blockchain game sees fiat onramps such as Apple Pay as a means onboarding the next 100 million users to Web3, STEPN chief operating officer Shiti Manghani told CoinDesk.

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Markets

GREED Token Is Not a Crypto Scam, but a Lesson on How to Get Scammed Amid Meme Coin Mania

Despite multiple warnings from Voshy, the meme coin's creator, speculators turned over Twitter permissions to get access to the token. They got a valuable lesson in account security.

GREED logo (Voshy/Medium)

Videos

Solana Labs CEO: Wasn't Sure the Ecosystem Would Survive After FTX

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was a big supporter of Solana, previously investing in its native token SOL. Solana Labs CEO and co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko weighs in on FTX's "outsized" influence on the ecosystem and what its collapse meant for Solana.

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Finance

Gaming Studio Bitblox to Build On-Chain Games for $68B Online Gambling Industry

Bitblox Games will exclusively build crypto games on the Hxro Network, a Solana-based distributed liquidity layer for betting applications.

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