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Cypherpunk Holdings has rebranded to Sol Strategies in a pivot to a Solana-first investment approach
For smaller validators, and all Solana validators in general, the entire ballgame is drawing more delegated stake
Blockworks Research analyst predicts 2025 will be a big year for economic changes on Solana
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
Although Magic Eden will still primarily function as an NFT platform, the app needs to “skate where the puck is going” to onboard new crypto users
There’s a general sentiment that blinks aren’t very useful for buying and selling crypto — one of the popular ways they were demoed
Some analysts suspect the selling came from investor concerns regarding Solana’s “heavy reliance on memecoins”
Plus, Google is facing a lawsuit after a Florida woman claims she lost $5 million in a scam involving a fake crypto wallet app
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
Plus, Kamino’s rise to the top of Solana DeFi’s total value locked leaderboard
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