Solana
Solana Foundation’s Austin Federa wrote on X that “Most of the L2-ish things on Solana are better thought of as Network Extensions”
Customers can pay merchants in USDC or USDP on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, while US-based merchants are paid in dollars
The app has just two tabs, one for making swaps and one for viewing your wallet balance
Lucid Ventures co-founder Meta said they don’t think Solana is “abnormal” in the VC world, where it’s “standard” for many projects to fail
Sygnum’s head of investment researchthinks Solana can pass Ethereum by drawing institutions for tokenization platforms and stablecoins
The forward-looking financial system is being championed by several contributors to India’s UPI digital money system
The stablecoin’s supply has declined about 50% in the last month, from $660 million to $320 million
Total economic value can be considered the income a blockchain makes — and Solana is far behind Ethereum on that count
The Ethereum DeFi giant formerly known as MakerDAO is weighing a deployment of its native tokens on Solana
The proposed amendment takes aim at Solana’s “compute budget” program, which was put in as a safeguard against computational waste
Solana’s second unique validator client, Firedancer, is widely said to be more performant than the Agave client
Despite some hiccups the last few months, its native token has traded essentially in tandem with SOL over the past few months
MagicBlock is using ephemeral rollups to develop a gaming engine that lets video games run fully onchain
Interoperability protocol Wormhole is handling the deployment by bridging World ID’s state roots from Ethereum to Solana
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