Category Archives: Solana News

Solana is back online following an outage on Friday night caused by a misconfigured node that stopped the blockchain from processing transactions. A validator appeared to be running a duplicate validator instance, meaning that instead of the validator producing a single block, each instance produced one each. “Not an issue in itself and something the[Read more…]

Solana’s NFT space saw a surge in minting this month despite NFT market volumes  showing little improvement following the crash earlier this year. SudoAMM has conducted $50 million in trading since its launch, proving there’s a market for royalty-free NFT trading despite the controversy they generate. The most popular web3 game of September saw almost[Read more…]

The popular blockchain has suffered a handful of outages and transaction stops this year, including a string of partial outages in January. A misconfigured node caused the Solana network to stop processing transactions and go offline on Friday, the fourth major outage for the popular blockchain since January, when it had a string of partial[Read more…]

Solana [SOL] is back in the news again. But alas, this time for an unpleasant reason. On 1 October, at 6:15 IST, Solana Status, a Twitter handle that is reportedly run by the Solana Foundation, posted a tweet about Solana’s fourth major outage since January. The tweet stated that the network was experiencing an outage and[Read more…]

Cryptocurrency research firm Delphi Digital posted a chart showing Solana NFT volume surging, accompanied by the text: “Solana’s share of total NFT trading volume has increased from 7% to 24% over the past 6 weeks.” Solana is establishing itself as a viable alternative to ETH for NFTs The chart showed since mid-August, NFT volume on[Read more…]

Star Atlas just rolled out its first playable demo, plus its developer released tools to help other studios bring games to Solana. Star Atlas is arguably one of the most ambitious NFT-driven games on the horizon, although it could be years before the Solana-based outer space strategy game fully takes shape. Eager players won’t have to wait that[Read more…]

On 29 September, Solana [SOL] managed to outperform several other cryptocurrencies owing to some appreciation in its price and market capitalization. Interestingly, the win was not only limited to its price. Solana also managed to beat Ethereum [ETH] in NFT sales growth over the last 30 days by a noteworthy margin. In fact, SOL registered an over 100% increase[Read more…]

300 holders of the Spartan NFT will be able to spread their ashes at a 35-foot memorial to Spartan soldiers, to be built in Greece. The company behind the Spartan Race has released a nonfungible token (NFT) collection which will immortalize the names of the initial holders in stone, with plans to build a 35-foot (10.5 meters)[Read more…]

Web3 firewall provider Blowfish emerged from stealth having announced the closure of an $11.8 million funding round led by Paradigm.  Other investors included Dragonfly Capital, Uniswap Lab Ventures, Hypersphere and 0xLabs, according to a company blog post.  Founded by a team of engineers from companies such as Meta, 0xLabs and MakerDAO, Blowfish provides firewall technology to[Read more…]

Cryptocurrency research firm Delphi Digital posted a chart showing Solana NFT volume surging, accompanied by the text: Solana is establishing itself as a viable alternative to ETH for NFTs The chart showed since mid-August, NFT volume on the Solana chain has been trending upwards, leading to a peak of 40% in early September. A dip[Read more…]