Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX is looking to offload its remaining Solana native tokens, SOL, via an auction this week. According to a Bloomberg report, people familiar with the matter said the bankruptcy estate would auction an unspecified amount of SOL in the hopes of receiving a higher price than that which they would have gotten...Read More
A federal jury has convicted crypto trader Avraham Eisenberg of fraud and market manipulation. The charges stemmed from Eisenberg’s exploitation of Mango Markets, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on the Solana blockchain. Eisenberg Convicted for Market Manipulation Eisenberg, 28, was found guilty by jurors in a federal court in Manhattan on charges of commodities...Read More
Investor hesitancy continued as digital asset investment products witnessed a modest sum of $126 million in outflows last week. This reluctance could potentially be due to the stall in positive price trends. While trading volumes increased slightly from $17 billion to $21 billion compared to the previous week, activity in ETP/ETFs decreased relative to the...Read More
Edgar Pavlovsky, the founder of MarginFi, announced his resignation on Wednesday following an internal dispute within the protocol’s builder, Mrgn. Pavlovsky’s abrupt exit resulted in withdrawals from investors, causing MarginFi’s Total Value Locked (TVL) to plummet by $120 million. Uninterrupted Operations Pavlovsky announced his resignation from MarginFi, expressing dissatisfaction with internal and external practices. He...Read More
Fintech company Circle has announced support for Web3 services on the Layer 1 blockchain network, Solana. Circle said that the latest move highlighted the growing significance of stablecoins such as USDC in aiding a more inclusive financial landscape. The company aims to facilitate accessibility to USDC for both enterprises and developers while emphasizing the importance...Read More
With the broader market resurgence, digital assets investment products also maintained their upward trend. According to CoinShares’ latest data, inflows reached $646 million last week. As a result, year-to-date inflows have reached an all-time high of $13.8 billion, significantly surpassing the $10.6 billion recorded in 2021. ETF Hype Slows Down The new feat comes after...Read More
The Solana network has been grappling with a significant surge in transaction failures, with approximately three-quarters of all transactions experiencing issues amidst the frenzy of activity sparked by the recent meme coin craze. Market players believe that the current crisis is an “existential moment as big as the FTX collapse.” Solana’s Failed Transaction Climbs 75%...Read More
Digital asset investment products experienced a positive shift in sentiment during the last week of March, with inflows reaching $862 million, nearly recovering from the previous week’s record outflows of $931 million. Despite this encouraging rebound, CoinShares revealed that ETF activity appears to be slowing down. In fact, the latest data shows that the daily...Read More
The hype for Solana meme coins is not cooling down soon after dogwifhat (WIF) hit a milestone on Friday. Meanwhile, another animal-themed token is exploding in price. A new contender in the meme coin sector is catching traders’ attention —”cats in a dogs world” (MEW). Per data from CoinGecko, MEW rallied over 120% on Friday,...Read More
Investment products in digital assets witnessed a significant weekly outflow of $942 million, breaking the continuous seven-week streak of inflows reaching $12.3 billion. According to the CoinShares, this shift can be attributed to investor hesitation. Hesitant Investors Cause US ETF Inflows Dip The latest edition of Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report revealed that the...Read More
The incident involving the Solana-based Slerf (SLERF) meme coin’s $10-million bungle has sparked intense speculation. While the team said that the action was a mindless misclick, others speculate that it might have been a daring marketing stunt. Regardless of the true nature of the event, it has undeniably garnered significant attention across social media platforms...Read More
Investments in digital asset products clocked in a massive surge in weekly inflows, reaching a total of $2.9 billion. According to the latest data compiled by CoinShares, the inflows surpassed the previous week’s record of $2.7 billion, propelling year-to-date investments to $13.2 billion, significantly exceeding the total inflows for the entire year of 2021, which...Read More
Solana’s market capitalization has topped $90 billion following a 10% gain on the day for SOL. This has driven token prices to just below $205, the highest level since December 2021. Furthermore, SOL has gained a whopping 45% over the past seven days as altcoins start to move in the wake of Bitcoin’s retreat from...Read More
Lookonchain has illustrated on X the investment of 50 SOL by a user in the presale of the meme token BOOK OF MEME (BOME), resulting in a return of 767 SOL, equivalent to around $123,000. The post highlights the success of a trader known as Shatter.sol, who capitalized on the explosive growth of the BOME...Read More
Pantera Capital is reportedly in the process of securing funds from major investors to acquire heavily discounted Solana tokens from the bankruptcy estate of FTX. The company is raising capital for the Pantera Solana Fund, which presents an attractive opportunity to purchase up to $250 million worth of SOL tokens from the FTX estate. Marketing...Read More
Solana-based investment products had seen steady inflows throughout the year after intensive performance and reliability improvements. However, investor confidence took a hit due to a network outage lasting five hours earlier this month, caused by a bug that caused transactions to enter an infinite loop, thereby impacting the network’s functionality. Solana’s Troubles Continue Among altcoins,...Read More
Solana-based nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have reached a significant milestone, surpassing an all-time sales volume of $5 billion, according to data from CryptoSlam. This surge in activity marks a turnaround for the Solana blockchain, which struggled to gain traction in the NFT space just a few months ago. Solana Ecosystem Surges As of February 23, the...Read More
Amidst a meaningful market recovery, digital asset investment products welcomed a record weekly inflows of $2.45 billion. This pushed year-to-date inflows to now at an impressive $5.2 billion. These numbers, combined with recent favorable price trends, have pushed the total assets under management (AuM) to $67 billion, the highest level since December 2021. Solana Faces...Read More
Investments in digital assets surged by $1.1 billion, bringing the year-to-date total to $2.7 billion. With the recent market recovery and subsequent price hikes, the total assets under management (AuM) have reached their highest point since early 2022, hitting $59 billion. According to Coinshares’ latest edition of Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report, Bitcoin dominated...Read More
On Tuesday, the Solana network experienced five hours of unusability. Validators, crucial components of Solana’s infrastructure responsible for processing and validating blockchain transactions, restarted the network before 10 am Eastern Time. Solana Labs attributed the recent five-hour blockchain downtime on February 6 to a bug that made transactions enter an infinite loop. The Post-Mortem According...Read More
Solana has been the center of attention in the last seven days, spearheading most of the news headlines in the crypto community. First, the Solana network suffered an outage on Tuesday, shutting down for nearly five hours and sparking criticisms left and right. Shortly after, SOL skyrocketed to $105, and its ecosystem recorded $1.85B in...Read More
Solana is down. The popular layer-one hasn’t been offline for quite a while, but it appears that the network isn’t functioning for a bit. According to an official update from the Solana Status account, the “mainnet-beta” experienced an outage, and engineers across the ecosystem are working to identify the issue. The update is from 10:22...Read More
Investment products for digital assets received significant influxes of $708 million last week, contributing to year-to-date inflows of $1.6 billion and increasing the total global assets under management to $53 billion. However, trading volumes in ETPs dropped to $8.2 billion from the previous week’s total of $10.6 billion, though they still surpass the 2023 weekly...Read More
Digital asset investment products experienced modest withdrawals of $21 million last week. However, this overall figure doesn’t reflect the significantly elevated trading activity, with Bitcoin alone witnessing trading volumes of $11.8 billion. This amount is seven times higher than the typical weekly trading volume observed in 2023, according to the latest report by CoinShares. US...Read More
Ondo Finance, a U.S.-based issuer of tokenized securities, is suspected of selling 20 million ONDO tokens, resulting in a notable 13% decline in the currency’s price within a short timeframe. The situation raised concerns with an X crypto enthusiast doing further investigation into the token sale. Large ONDO Token Transfers Trigger Price Drop According to...Read More
Solana Mobile’s latest crypto-enabled smartphone, Chapter 2, has set a new record for preorders, surpassing the entire first-year sales of its predecessor, Saga, within its first 30 hours of the announcement. The company reported 25,000 preorders in the initial 24 hours, and by the 30-hour mark, the number had skyrocketed to 30,000. Affordable Pricing and...Read More
Digital asset investment products experienced a $1.18 billion increase in inflows last week, according to CoinShares. This figure, however, did not surpass the previous high set in October 2021 when futures-based Bitcoin ETFs garnered a total of $1.5 billion. The latest edition of “Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report” further revealed that the trading volumes...Read More
Solana’s native SOL token was one of the best-performing crypto assets in 2023. The developer ecosystem of the Layer 1 network also showed consistent growth during the same period. In the same timeframe, the Solana ecosystem saw a notable increase in developer retention, jumping from 31% to more than 50% within a three-month timeframe. This...Read More
The digital asset investment products experienced inflows of $2.25 billion throughout the entire 2023. This places it as the third-best year based on data dating back to 2017, with 2020 recording $6.6 billion and 2021 reaching $10.7 billion, according to the latest report by CoinShares. As such, the inflows for 2023 were 2.7 times higher...Read More
XRP tokens, the native cryptocurrency for the cross-border Ripple Labs network, have traded sideways in a narrow band with support around $0.62 since mid-November. At the same time, SOL used the opportunity, surged by an impressive percentage, and surpassed XRP in terms of market cap ranking. Ripple’s Turn Next After Solana? But the XRP price...Read More
