STEPN combines Social-Fi and Game-Fi elements in a Web3 lifestyle application, where you can earn the in-game tokens by walking, jogging or running outdoors. Leading the Move-to-Earn Sector The GameFi sector is poised to lead the next wave of crypto adoption, and in addition to the play-to-earn model, there is also the move-to-earn (M2E) model. STEPN, one of the[Read more…]
Category Archives: Solana News
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EPISODE SUMMARY Anatoly welcomes Jason Keats (Founder & Chief Hooligan, OSOM) to the podcast to talk about his epic career building hardware, the Solana Saga phone and all things mobile and web3. Pre-order the Saga now at solanamobile.com 00:09 – Intro 00:25 – Background 03:27 – Working at Apple 08:07 – The Gem Phone 10:15[Read more…]
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GenesysGo is the backbone of Solana and wants to prove that performance and decentralization aren’t mutually exclusive. Powering the Fastest L1 When two friends started GenesysGo to run a Solana validator in February 2021, it could hardly be called anything but a humble start. Now the protocol now powers over 50% of the chain’s traffic. The team built one[Read more…]
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Solana explorer provides some compelling investment strategies for the average trader. Looking for Better Strategies During the Bear SolanaFM, one of the many promising crypto startups in Singapore, revealed what it says are the best investment strategies involving options in Solana. Options offer investment opportunities that are often more profitable than regular assets. But many retail investors shy[Read more…]
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As Web3 goes mobile with Solana’s flagship phone, Web3Wire News interviewed someone working on it to bring the mobile industry to a new level. Are Crypto Phones the Future? The Solana Phone announcement rattled the crypto world last month, promising to put the power of decentralization and Web3 in users’ pockets. Anatoly Yakovenko, the co-founder[Read more…]
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Jupiter celebrates DeFi and NFT projects on Solana with weekly prizes. Weekly Prizes, Starting with $GMT Jupiter Aggregator, the primary liquidity aggregator and swap infrastructure for Solana ($SOL), has launched a trading competition and weekly giveaway for projects on the blockchain. Hubble Protocol will also award weekly prizes for trades on $USDH pairs with each featured token[Read more…]
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Marinade Finance’s new Liquidity Mining Gauges grant more powers to $MNDE stakers. Hear Ye, Stakers Following the introduction of Validator Gauges that allowed $MNDE stakers to determine the allocation of Marinade Finance’s staked $SOL to validators on the staking protocol, Marinade announced the launch of Liquidity Mining Gauges on July 5. According to the protocol, the Liquidity Mining Gauges aim to transfer control of the distribution[Read more…]
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EPISODE SUMMARY Sid Powell is the CEO & Co-Founder of Maple Finance. Maple is transforming capital markets through technology and count traditional finance and crypto-native firms as customers. Joe McCann guest hosts. 00:35 – What is Maple? 01:32 – How does Maple determine Credit worthiness? 02:55 – Expanding the addressable market 04:35 – Who uses[Read more…]
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Solana concentrates on network upgrades with three major changes that will improve its stability. Prioritizing Congestion Issues Solana is updating its community as it works on mitigation plans to make network congestion a thing of the past. Three new developments are targeted at improving the Solana network’s resilience and stability. First, QUIC is a general-purpose protocol meant to discourage and[Read more…]
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One of Solana’s biggest decentralized lenders, Solend, evaded a margin call of $107 million last week. The Defi community has stepped in to prevent what may have resulted in Solana’s decline in price. Seeking the Whale While traditional finance looks at Decentralized Finance (DeFi) with some skepticism, its open nature just avoided a multimillion-dollar liquidation. Solend, Solana’s[Read more…]
