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Donald Trump’s NFT Trading Card Collection

In recent days, there has been a significant uptick in the daily sales volume of nonfungible token (NFT) trading cards belonging to the former President of the United States, Donald Trump. According to market analytics aggregator Cryptoslam, sales volumes on January 18 and January 19 saw surges of 800% and 600% respectively when compared to[Read more…]

BetDEX to Go Live on Solana as FIFA World Cup 2022 Approaches

Decentralized sports betting platform BetDEX is set to go live on the Solana Mainnet ahead of the upcoming Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022 which will be played from November 20th to December 18th. As of November 17th, three days away from the World cup, BetDEX will be open on Solana mainnet, according to Varun Sudhakar, BetDEX exchange[Read more…]

Solana Restores Network Outage After Successful Cluster Restart, But SOL Price Still Struggling

Solana, a decentralized blockchain built to enable scalable, user-friendly apps, announced on Saturday that its network is back online following an outage on Friday night caused by a misconfigured node that stopped the blockchain from processing transactions. A single misconfigured node took down the entire network – the glitch caused the outage for several hours. Solana informed[Read more…]

Over 81% Helium Community Approves Migration to Solana Blockchain

Since its establishment in 2013, the Helium network has been operating on its own blockchain, known as HIP 70. On Thursday, the foundation disclosed that a majority community vote of 81.41% approved the Helium Improvement Proposal (HIP 70) aimed at developing the network to meet user demand. The proposal requirements demanded participants to stake the[Read more…]

Coinbase Cloud Adds Solana Archive Node

Coinbase Cloud provides Web3 APIs, services, and blockchain infrastructure to power the next generation of software builders including data access, staking, payments, trade and exchange, identity, and more This is the first expansion of Coinbase Cloud’s network infrastructure to create validating clients for Solana, which involves improving the efficiency, throughput, and reliability of the protocol. Solana[Read more…]

5G Wireless Network Helium Proposes Migration to Solana Blockchain

Founded in 2013, Helium network is the world’s first peer-to-peer LoRaWAN wireless Internet of Things, also known as “People’s Network”. Helium is changing the way we connect and extend the world’s wireless networks. Helium’s ever-expanding network of hotspots enables anyone to own and operate a wireless network for low-power Internet of Things (IoT) devices, while[Read more…]

Solana Introduces Web3 Mobile Phone Saga

Solana Labs subsidiary Solana Mobile has announced the launch of the mobile phone “Saga” set for launch in 2023. The flagship Android mobile phone is a modified OSOM handset which consists of speciality crypto wallet functions and the “Solana Mobile Stack (SMS)” software development kit for Web3 programs. Solana said that the $1000 mobile phone[Read more…]