Solana: news
On April 7, 2022, the most popular NFT marketplace OpenSea added support for non-fungible tokens powered by Solana. For now it is only available in beta mode.
OpenSea April 6, 2022
As OpenSea noted, NFTs have become more accessible thanks to the low fees and high transaction speed of the Solana blockchain. In total, the marketplace now supports four blockchains: Ethereum, Polygon, Klaytn and Solana.
On April 12, online broker Robinhood added support for the SOL token, as well as the Polygon, Compound and Shiba Inu cryptocurrencies, to its platform.
In April 2022, the founder of Social Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, expressed the opinion that Solana is capable of challenging the Visa and Mastercard payment systems against the backdrop of the latter increasing fees for processing customer cards. In particular, we are talking about the digital payment platform Solana Pay, which is considered a new word in the field of payment processing.
On June 8, it became known that Solana was launching a $100 million grant to support Web3 developer startups in South Korea.
On June 21, NFT marketplace Magic Eden, which is based on the Solana blockchain, received funding in the amount of $130 million.
On June 24, the Solana team announced plans to release its own flagship smartphone, Saga, based on Android, which will be focused on Web3.
On June 30, the American crypto exchange Coinbase added the possibility of staking the SOL token on its platform.
In July, hackers broke into several decentralized protocols based on Solana.
On August 3, hackers hacked about 8 thousand Solana wallets and stole millions of dollars in cryptocurrency from them.
On September 12, the number of NFTs issued based on Solana, according to Block, reached more than 300 thousand.
On November 3, the German hosting provider Hetzner closed access to the servers on which Solana nodes were located.
On November 7, one of the largest stablecoin issuers, Circle, announced that it plans to add support for the Euro Coin (EUROC) stablecoin based on the Solana network.
On November 10, the Crypto.com cryptocurrency exchange stopped depositing and withdrawing funds in the Solana-based stablecoins Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC) amid the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange, which invested in the project. The option to deposit USDT on Crypto.com was later returned. Deposits in USDT and USDC were also stopped on the Binance, OkEx and Bybit exchanges.
On December 16, 2022, the Raydium AMM protocol, which runs on Solana, suffered a hacker attack, which negatively impacted liquidity pools.
2023 Solana ranked fourth by market capitalization
As of December 25, SOL's price is $110.91 and its market capitalization is $47.5 billion. Last week, Solana overtook XRP, which now has a market capitalization of $33 billion. The day before, the same fate befell BNB, whose market capitalization is $40.5 billion The value of the Solana cryptocurrency itself has increased by 59.40% over the past 7 days, according to CoinGecko data. There are currently 427.47 million SOL in circulation.
If 2023 was the year of laying the foundation, then 2024 could be the year of Solana.
At least that's what a series of reports published over the past few months say. And despite the global industry downturn, developers remained in the Solana ecosystem throughout 2023 and continued to build. Now businesses and users are starting to take notice.
There are currently more than 2,500 developers in the Solana ecosystem, according to the Solana Foundation, an open source service that measures developer activity.
The same report shows that of these 2,500+ developers, 52.5% are senior developers with more than three years of experience.
According to the Messari State of Solana report, there were an average of 40.7 million user transactions per day in the fourth quarter of 2023, with a peak of 405K daily unique fee payers.
Visa's external in-depth research found that "low and predictable costs have helped improve payment efficiency."
Developers from across the ecosystem and beyond are working hard to lay the foundation for the next generation of blockchain projects. The infrastructure is here and developers have a lot to be excited about when it comes to new tools.
Token Extensions
The long wait is almost over! In early 2024, token extensions will add new features that will make token creation on Solana more flexible.
Token extensions, created in collaboration with major institutions, bring functionality to the token program level without the need for any third-party programs. This makes it much easier to create an open and customizable token program while maintaining interoperability. Some early token extensions you can expect:
Confidential Transfers: Enable confidential transfers of tokens on transparent blockchains with privacy capabilities and optional auditability.
Transfer Interceptors: Call special programs to control the transfer of tokens.
Metadata Locator: Identify canonical sources of truth for token metadata that can provide authoritative verification of the authentic metadata.
Combined with future runtime updates, the Solana ecosystem creates an open and customizable token platform.
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