Solana

DeFi

USDC Is Coming to Solana Blockchain in Potential Boost for Non-Ethereum DeFi

USDC moves to Solana – its fourth blockchain – one week after also landing on Stellar.

Business  ·  21 October 2020
Staking

Coinbase Custody and Bison Trails Expand Integration to Enable Staking of Solana Tokens

According to the announcement by Bison Trails, this will allow users on Coinbase Custody to stake their solana (SOL) tokens using secure offline storage.

Business  ·  27 August 2020
DeFi

Proof-of-Stake Chains Team Up to Prove DeFi Is Bigger Than Ethereum

Terra is joining forces with Cosmos, Web3 Foundation and Solana to roll out a DeFi product meant for a wider consumer audience. Meet Anchor.

Business  ·  28 July 2020
CoinFlash

FTX to Launch ‘Scalable’ Decentralized Exchange in Weeks

Building on the Solana blockchain means the new platform's operations are less restricted than those on Ethereum, the firm says.

News  ·  27 July 2020
Stellar

Kin Community Approves Move From Stellar Fork to Solana’s Blockchain

Devs, node operators and the Kin Foundation board have approved its move from a fork of the Stellar blockchain to Solana's network.

News  ·  19 June 2020
Stellar

Fed Up With Its Fork of Stellar, Kin Is Looking to Move Onto Solana

The Kin Foundation is seeking to move the kin cryptocurrency onto the Solana blockchain, according to a proposal shared with CoinDesk.

Tech  ·  22 May 2020
Stablecoins

Solana Blockchain Adds Korean Stablecoin Terra for Better Payments

Solana is adding the Terra stablecoin in an effort to bring "novel applications that require price-stable payments" to its high-throughput blockchain.

Tech  ·  15 April 2020
Blockchain

Pitch Deck Says Solana Is Courting Dish Network, Kik for Its ‘Web-Scale’ Blockchain

Solana is looking to raise up to $12M at a $125M valuation, touting potential relationships with Dish and Kin in a pitch deck seen by CoinDesk.

News  ·  9 March 2020
Funding Rounds

Multicoin Leads $20 Million Round for Speed-Focused Solana Blockchain

Claiming it can handle many more transactions per second than existing blockchains, Solana has raised capital to ramp up development.

Business  ·  30 July 2019