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NFT Market Gets Back on Track Thanks to Moonbirds and Solana NFTs
5.5.2022
After a six-week cooldown period started in mid-February, the non-fungible token (NFT) market saw a boost in activity throughout April. Popular NFT collection Moonbirds and a rise in demand for Solana (SOL)-based NFTs were the primary drivers.
The NFT market recorded USD 6.3bn in monthly...
IMF Not Happy About Bitcoin Again, DEX Hack, Starbucks' NFTs + More News
5.5.2022
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Solana and Moonbirds help NFT market reach $6.5B monthly trading volume: Report
5.5.2022
Moonbirds contributed half a billion in trading volume, while Solana registered a 91% surge in NFT trading volume month over month
Solana Pay Introduces Transaction Requests For Developers
5.5.2022
Solana Pay keeps reshaping the payments domain by introducing transaction requests for merchants and developers. The platform has attracted numerous users to on-chain transactions within its brief yet illustrious three months of experience. The platform has been relying on the one-way transfer...
Solana Pay Adds Customized Transaction Request for Merchants
5.5.2022
Prices of Solana’s native SOL tokens outperformed the market with a 9% surge in the past 24 hours
3 key metrics signal Terra (LUNA) price is preparing for a recovery
4.5.2022
LUNA price is far from its all-time high but three key metrics signal that the altcoin could be preparing to rally
Price analysis 5/4: BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, XRP, LUNA, ADA, DOGE, AVAX, DOT
4.5.2022
Bitcoin and most altcoins could remain volatile in the short-term due to the Fed’s decision, warranting caution from traders
Bitcoin Funds Sees Largest Weekly Outflows in a Year, ‘Hawkish Rhetoric’ to Blame
4.5.2022
Investment funds backed by bitcoin (BTC) last week saw their largest outflows for a single week since June of 2021, with USD 132.7m being withdrawn by investors, according to data from the crypto investment and research firm CoinShares....
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SEC Nearly Doubles Its Crypto & Cyber Unit, The Other Side Of Goldman's Bitcoin-Backed Loan + More News
3.5.2022
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Read More: SEC Nearly Doubles Its Crypto & Cyber Unit, The Other Side Of Goldman's Bitcoin-Backed Loan + More News
Solana developers share 3 key mitigation steps to make the network robust
3.5.2022
Developers have suggested changing Solana’s current data transfer protocol UDP to QUIC, stake-weighted transaction processing and a fee-based transaction priority
Here’s Why Solana Ceased Block Production for Seven Hours on Saturday
3.5.2022
Millions of transactions per second and heavy traffic contributed to the network’s disruption, developers explained on Tuesday
Price analysis 5/2: BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, XRP, LUNA, ADA, DOGE, AVAX, DOT
2.5.2022
BTC and altcoins are holding at their current support levels, but this week’s comments from the Federal Reserve could be a determining factor in short-term price action
Ethereum risks 35% drop by June with ETH price confirming ‘ascending triangle’ fakeout
2.5.2022
Nearly $170 million left Ethereum-based investment funds in 2022, signaling a drop in institutional demand
Derivatives, Spot Markets, Dex Swaps — 30 Day Crypto Trade Volumes Slipped Across the Board Last Month
2.5.2022
Digital currency markets have been tumultuous during the past month as bitcoin shed 15.43% and ethereum dropped 17.49% against the U.S. dollar. Moreover, crypto spot volumes are down 18.95% lower than the month prior, and both futures and options volumes were down in April as well. Lower than...
Another Solana Outage Shows That Price Impact Is Minor
2.5.2022
After at least 9 days with reported outages so far in 2022, the price of solana (SOL), the 7th largest cryptoasset by market capitalization, does not appear overly affected by the network troubles, with prices for the most part staying rangebound between USD 80 and USD 120 since late January....
SOL Plunges as Bots Spam Solana’s Candy Machine
2.5.2022
The NFT minting infrastructure of Solana caused a network outage as the new month kicked off. The seven-hour breakdown is reportedly the result of bots taking over the minting tool Candy Machine on Solana. As the reports confirm, the network recorded a staggering four million transactions...
Solana suffers 7th outage in 2022 as bots invade the network
2.5.2022
NFT minting bots on Solana contributed over 4 million transactions per second, knocking validators out of consensus and crashing the network for around seven hours
After Solana’s Co-Founder Said BTC Should Change Its Consensus Algo, Solana Mainnet Loses Consensus for 7 Hours
1.5.2022
While Ethereum users participating in the Otherside metaverse land sale caused network fees to rise and created issues for the blockchain explorer Etherscan, it overshadowed Solana’s blockchain network outage. It seems a flood of inbound transactions on Saturday caused Solana’s...
Solana Co-Founder Believes Bitcoin Needs to Change to Proof-of-Stake Consensus to Remain Relevant
1.5.2022
Anatoly Yakovenko, one of the co-founders of Solana, the proof-of-stake based, smart contracts enabled blockchain, issued a series of statements criticizing bitcoin’s consensus algorithm. In an interview on CNBC, Yakovenko stated that bitcoin might lose adoption if it doesn’t change...
Solana Goes Dark For 7 Hours as Bots Swarm ‘Candy Machine’ NFT Minting Tool
1.5.2022