Anatoly Yakovenko in 2017 embarked on the technical challenge of solving blockchain’s scalability problem

Why has utility become such a losing bet?

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

Let’s raise a toast to another year of SOLid progress

Plus, India really showed out for Colosseum’s Radar hackathon

It’s not an easy living for small validators, and now thin margins have grown even thinner

Sources note the shutter was caused by an inability to find a meaningful niche in an NFT market that never regained its vaunted 2021 status

Pump.fun, Firedancer, DAOs, restaking…how will Solana define the rest of 2024?

Plus, Solana’s validators are seeing their revenue sources change during this Solana cycle

Plus, Drift’s new Bet prediction market is having a huge volume day

Renzo is one of four liquid restaking protocols with at least $1 billion in TVL

Most prediction market volume is being spent on the Nov. 5 US presidential election

SOL climbed from around $144 to over $160 when Jerome Powell said “the time has come” for interest rate cuts

Perhaps no blockchain ecosystem has benefited so much from the renewed bull run as Solana

Plus, Google is facing a lawsuit after a Florida woman claims she lost $5 million in a scam involving a fake crypto wallet app

Bangerz, a pseudonymous X creator who works at a Solana NFT startup, shows how cringe can be a winning social strategy

Plus, there is a new contender for the most disastrous token launch of 2024

Plus, PayPal stablecoin PYUSD has officially flipped Ethereum in terms of supply on Solana

Plus, memecoins are undeniably relevant in Solanaland