What is Solana (SOL)?

Solana is a blockchain technology that allows developers to build so-called decentralized apps, or financial systems, on its infrastructure. That could be anything from currencies, to loans, to NFTs. It has very similar goals as Ethereum but aims to handle massive transaction volumes without compromising security and decentralization. In other words, it wants to replace Ethereum with none of the bottlenecks. To achieve that, Solana invented a process called “proof of history”, which helps its proof of stake consensus mechanism currently handle an unparalleled amount of transactions per second.
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Our take on Solana

There’s no denying that Solana is a technologically powerful blockchain and its team has helped usher in millions of new crypto users…but the explosion of its price (~$26 in July ‘21 to ~$260 in Nov. 21) seems to have been a serious bubble inflated by FTX, which used Solana as its main blockchain. With the collapse of FTX, much of Solana’s progress has been reeled back. We still think that Solana is, from a technical perspective, an excellent blockchain…but its ecosystem, which was heavily funded by SBF’s companies, has a tough battle to fight to regain its position as one of the top 10 blockchains.
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Interesting facts about Solana

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Transactions get validated in less than half a second, making it comparable to credit cards.

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Solana is very energy-efficient, with each transaction using just a little more than a Google search.

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Solana is one of the fastest blockchains, supporting up to 10,000 transactions per second.

Solana reviews from the cryptohunt community

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Disco43
2 mo. ago

I bought some

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0xBrettH
7 mo. ago

While Solana has the best transaction speed and has brought a lot of investment into the space, the market cap of the chain now doesn't leave as much growing room in comparison to similar chains (cough, cough NEAR Protocol). That being said, the amount of system downtime that Solana has experienced isn't deterring investors, so any negative price action for Solana could be a great time to buy the dip. NFA + DYOR

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mishalalex
7 mo. ago

Frequent outages, less decentralisation, high barrier of entry to become a node operator

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Solana price and insights

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Market insights
Market capitalization
Very small
24 hour trading volume
Very small
Market cap % of total
Very small
Project health
# Discord members
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# Telegram members
66,666
3% of them are active
% of total supply circulating
Very small

What’s the community like?

Community matters for projects like Solana, because an active community drives the development of use cases for a blockchain project. The more people are active, the better to have healthy discussions and create something valuable.
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# Telegram members
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# Active Telegram members
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