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The deal is one of the crypto sector’s recent, notable acquisitions involving crypto payments

Like Michael Saylor’s firm, Sol Strategies is focused on acquiring crypto as a treasury asset

We’re talking about FTX here, so we could have anticipated that things wouldn’t go as smoothly as planned

DeSci platform pump.science announced a partnership with Solana-based prediction market Hedgehog Markets

The exchange also inherits FTX EU’s European regulatory license that will let users trade perpetual futures

Plus, a Solana-connected fitness tracking bracelet aims to ship products in Q1

Solana founders anonymously weigh in on other teams, VCs, and the alleged cabal

Blockchain addresses and TVL are gameable, but fees are real funds that change hands

Outages, memecoins, ETFs, oh my!

DFlow put an interesting solution on the table in proposing conditional liquidity to divide toxic from non-toxic order flow

Volatility Shares’ new Solana futures ETF filing comes with a catch

Over 400 projects threw their respective hats in the ring

Crypto has had a rough week after the most recent FOMC meeting

A festive look at the strangest, funniest and most creative holiday tokens lighting up Solana

A look back at a year of wild rides and hard falls for Solana’s most memorable memes

The two products aren’t exactly the same, by both parties’ accounts, but they are both focused on the same niche

Sanctum came up through the Solana Foundation’s startup incubator with the promise to create an “infinite LST future”

Welch has not posted or uploaded anywhere online since the incident

By enabling slashing, Solana would have a way to punish validators who slow down the network

Bitwise signaled its plans to list a solana ETF in the US less than a month ago

Stanford professors David Mazières and Dan Boneh will lead the lab alongside a cohort of graduate student researchers

The debanking narrative has given fresh ammunition to teams building bank replacements

MagicBlock went through a16z’s crypto startup accelerator and began advertising its tech earlier this year

A Solana researcher identified that the network’s top sandwich bot was pocketing millions of dollars a day from sandwich attacks