Solana on-chain development increases after a recent DDoS attack

Solana on-chain development increases after a recent DDoS attack

Solana’s daily GitHub submission has spiked after a recent DDoS attack. Solana — whose native crypto, SOL, is the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization — is leading on-chain development charts despite a recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.As per Santiment data, Solana surpassed the daily GitHub submission rates of Polkadot and Cardano to become the leading blockchain over the past month. The number of daily GitHub submissions for Solana reached 90 between Nov. 12 and Monday, followed by Polkadot at 76 and Cardano at 65.Daily GitHub submissions Bitcoin,....


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