Solana DeFi Growing, Daily Users Approaching 7 Million: Will SOL Crack $200?
Solana is one of the top networks, commanding a market cap of over $81 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data. Even as crypto prices rise and sentiment improves, SOL has struggled for momentum. Solana Retraces: Will Prices Break $200? Over the past week of trading, market data shows that SOL is stable, posting a 3% dip […]
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Daily transactions in the Solana blockchain consistently increased, ending with more than 40 million daily transactions compared to Ethereum’s 1 million daily transactions between April and June. Hype does not always equate to greater adoption, as the on-chain data from the second quarter of 2022 shows Solana (SOL) surpassing Ethereum (ETH) in users’ daily transactions despite various drawbacks from both macroeconomic conditions and network outages. Throughout the second quarter, Solana’s daily transactions consistently increased, ending with more than 40 million daily transactions....
The decentralized exchange (dex) platform Orca has announced the platform has raised $18 million in a Series A financing round with Polychain, Placeholder, and Three Arrows co-leading the funding. The dex platform is a Solana-based project that aims to be the “go-to swap” platform for Solana.
Solana’s Orca Gets an $18 Million Capital Raise
On Wednesday, the Solana-based decentralized finance (defi) service Orca revealed the team has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round. The investment, Orca says, will “jumpstart our path toward making Orca....
Solana, a proof-of-stake, smart contracts-enabled currency, is aiming to raise $450 million in a funding round that was extended last March. The Solana ecosystem, which is backed by Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of derivatives exchange FTX, would use these funds to take on Ethereum supremacy in the Defi ecosystem. Solana to Raise $450 Million in Funding Round Solana, the FTX-backed, proof-of-stake coin is aiming to raise $450 million in a funding round that was set to close, but instead expanded in March, according to a report from Decrypt. The outlet, citing anonymous sources, states....
Sales volume across Solana's NFT marketplaces has dropped by more than 13% in the last 30 days. Solana (SOL) continued its two-week uptrend on March 30, rising, in part, owing to its integration with OpenSea, the world's biggest nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace by volume. SOL price rises to multi-week highsSOL's price gained 4.5% in the past 24 hours to around $117 per token, its best level since Feb. 11, 2022. The coin's latest move upside pushed its two-week paper returns to over 50%. Nonetheless, SOL/USD is still down 30% on a year-to-date timeframe, risking pullback as the price....
Tether's integration with the Solana blockchain is intended to help support a range of projects in DeFi, blockchain gaming and Web 3.0. Stablecoin issuer Tether has announced that USDT tokens are launching today, March 9, on the Solana (SOL) blockchain. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Tether's chief technical officer said that the integration with the layer 1 blockchain promises to support a wide array of projects in the Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, sector and other Web 3.0. activities.As previously reported, Solana is being pitched as a competitor to Ethereum, with the hope of drawing DeFi....