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Solana Developers Rush to Address Network Congestion; Operativity Remains Impaired
7.4.2024
Anza, a collective of Solana-focused developers, has announced the measures it is taking to mitigate the congestion issues the network has been facing. Anza stated that it has made significant progress in tackling these problems and hopes to release patches next week. Currently, 70% of users’...
Solana Founder Explains Reason For Network Glitch
6.4.2024
The flaw that was causing transaction failures and a delay in block finalisation in the blockchain ecosystem was "identified and patched," according to Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko on April 5.
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Buterin, Yakovenko and Gün Sirer: Crypto Creators Take on the Meme Coin Phenomenon
1.4.2024
The meme coin phenomenon, where communities produce tokens with no other support than a meme behind it, has given rise to opposing opinions. These range from the most positive ones, which regard them as value-affirming elements, to the negative ones, which state that there is no value behind them....
Meme Coin Presale Trend Goes Wild on Solana: Almost $150 Million Raised
21.3.2024
An investigation carried out by blockchain sleuth Zackxbt has found that the trend where individuals ask for funds on social networks and promote their meme coin launches has grown in popularity. Almost $150 million has been raised on Solana after Book of Meme (BOME), the token that pioneered this...
Solana Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko Thinks Crypto Has a Shot at Disrupting the App Store Duopoly
12.3.2024
Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs, believes that crypto can have a shot at disrupting Google’s and Apple’s app store duopoly. He criticized the state of the software distribution on mobile devices, lamenting that the two stores collected over 30% of all earnings just...
Solana Mobile Processed Over $20 Million in Payments Using USDC With No Processing Fees
15.2.2024
Solana Mobile, Solana Labs’ smartphone subsidiary, processed over $20 million in payments in alliance with Shopify and USDC, the second-largest dollar-pegged stablecoin. Anatoly Yakovenko, a co-founder of Solana Labs, explained that 51% of Chapter 2’s payments were completed using USDC...
Can We All Stop Pretending That Solana Is in Beta?
6.2.2024
The phrase is only rolled out when things break on the popular blockchain
Solana Unleashes Token Extensions to Enhance SPL Token Standard
25.1.2024
On Wednesday, Solana Labs unveiled the launch of token extensions, marking a noteworthy advancement in the SPL Token standard. The blockchain network’s token extensions aim to provide a suite of solutions for businesses transitioning to distributed ledger technology, emphasizing security...
Solana’s Smartphone Saga Needs 25,000 User Base to Attract Developers
7.12.2023
Solana. Source: Adobe Solana’s smartphone, Saga, underperforms months after hitting the market with about 2,500 units sold raising internal and wider concerns over the model. Speaking on an Unchained podcast on Dec 6, Anatoly Yakovenko, Solana’s founder reflected on the journey so far for...
Future of Solana's Hyped Saga Phone is "Under Internal Discussion" as Sales Figures Fail to Wow
7.12.2023
Yakovenko emphasizes the importance of reaching a user base of 25-50K to sustain the Solana phone's development in an interview with Laura Shin
Anatoly Yakovenko and Solana Bounce Back
4.12.2023
With a rocketing token and tech improvements on the horizon, the Solana community – rallied by industry champion Anatoly Yakovenko – defied the odds of defeat
Solana’s genesis story — Anatoly Yakovenko's vision for a high-performance blockchain
23.11.2023
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko recounts the “eureka moment” that birthed the blueprint for the layer one smart contract protocol aimed to be “hyper-optimized” and “fast as possible”
‘We were worried about ecosystem startups' — Solana CEO on FTX collapse
3.11.2023
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko reflects on the fallout of FTX's failure and its initial impact on Solana ecosystem builders
Solana Founder Unfazed by FTX Troubles and Growing Blockchain Competition – Here's the Latest
5.5.2023
Solana Labs founder Anatoly Yakovenko remains confident about the prospects of the Solana blockchain amid increasing competition from other emerging blockchain networks.
At least six blockchain networks are set to launch soon, with Scroll, Linea, and the Coinbase-backed Base projects already...
Solana Faces Renewed Criticism After 10th Downtime and Bumpy Restart, but Developers Remain Optimistic
28.2.2023
Following the initial incident on Feb. 25, Solana resolved the blockchain’s performance degradation after validators decided to restart the network. According to an outage report following more than 24 hours of downtime, Solana developers detailed that the “root cause is still unknown and under...
Solana CEO hoses down claims network outages caused by on-chain voting
28.2.2023
Solana Labs founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko said claims that Solana's network outages were caused by on-chain voting were born out of "pure ignorance."
DeGods and Y00ts NFTs are bridging off Solana. Here's why
27.12.2022
The migration of Solana's top two NFT projects to Polygon and Ethereum is set for the first quarter of 2023 on an opt-in basis
SBF’s ‘Truly Trustless’ Protocol — Serum’s Upgrade Authority May Be Tainted, Devs Look to Fork Project
13.11.2022
According to Solana’s founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, Serum developers are forking the platform because the “upgrade key to the current one is compromised.” Serum, created by FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), was touted as “completely permissionless,” but now that...
Solana’s co-founder addresses the blockchain’s reliability at Breakpoint
7.11.2022
In 2022 the blockchain has suffered from ten partial or full outages along with slow block times and Solana’s co-founder said it’s “not the experience that we want to deliver.”
Network outages have been Solana’s ‘curse,’ says co-founder
5.9.2022
The high-speed smart contract platform has suffered full or partial outages at least seven separate times over the last twelve months