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MonkeDAO Plans to Buy Rights to Popular Solana Monkey Business NFT Collection for $2M

The decentralized autonomous organization formed by owners of the Solana Monkey Business NFT project will purchase all intellectual property rights to the collection from its current owner HadesDAO.

Solana Monkey Business NFT collection (Screenshot via Magic Eden)

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Solana-Based NFT Collection Okay Bears Partners With (RED) to Fund Global Health Efforts

The PFP project will release (RED)-themed merchandise to raise funds for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

(Okay Bears via Magic Eden, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Solana’s Crypto-Ready ‘Saga’ Smartphone Goes on Sale May 8

The Saga aims to put crypto in people’s pockets, where the rest of the digital world has already gone.

The Saga smartphone. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Solana Dog Token Darling Bonk Inu Releases BonkSwap DEX

Bonk inu was one of the hottest Solana tokens earlier this year, leading a frenzied market at the time.

Bonk Inu developers say they want to showcase Solana's capabilities. (Bonk Inu)

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Bitcoin Rally Continues, Solana Jumps as ‘Saga’ Release Anticipated

Bitcoin's recent rally that drove the cryptocurrency above $30,000 continues. Meanwhile, solana (SOL) sees gains in token prices ahead of its anticipated "Saga" release. The most recent market updates and other news shaping the cryptocurrency world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

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Bitcoin Breaks Above $30,000 as Ether, Solana Gain

Bitcoin (BTC) soared above $30,000 for the first time in nearly a year. This comes as ether (ETH) and solana (SOL) are seeing gains in token prices too. The most recent market updates and other news shaping the cryptocurrency world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

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Finance

Solana-Based Crypto Exchange Raydium Proposes $2M Bug Bounty Fund

The proposal is part of a broader effort by Raydium to boost its community’s participation in protocol governance.

Decentralized exchange Raydium has proposed a bug bounty program. (CoinDesk)

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NFT Collection Y00ts Makes Anticipated Move From Solana to Polygon

The popular project, which launched in September 2022, is using a cross-chain bridge to bring its 15,000-edition generative art collection to Polygon.

Y00ts NFT collection (Magic Eden)

Finance

Render Network Eyes Solana Migration Ahead of Network Changes

A community review will decide if the network will build its new burn-and-mint equilibrium model on the Solana blockchain.

Solana's offices in New York (Danny Nelson)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Orca to Block U.S. Traders From Website

The top decentralized exchange on Solana will restrict U.S. trading activity on orca.so beginning on March 31.

Orca founders Yutaro Mori (left) and Ori Kwan (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)