Solana-Based Chingari Tokens Plunge 87%, Developers Flag Big Sell Order
The team denies rumors of an exploit or insider trading.
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SOL is the native cryptocurrency of the Solana blockchain, a platform that has fast transaction times and inexpensive fees.
SOL is used in two ways:
Solana is an inflationary cryptocurrency with no hard cap on the total number of tokens. It has a starting annual inflation rate of 8%, which will decrease by 15% every year until it reaches 1.5%, which will be the fixed long-term rate.
Thirty-seven percent of the SOL tokens that were initially distributed went to investors, 25% was split between Solana's team and the Solana Foundation, the nonprofit steering development of the cryptocurrency, and 38% was sent to Solana Foundation's community fund reserve.
After the launch of SOL in March 2020, SOL's price bounced between $0.50 and $1.50 for the rest of the year. Then, SOL became one of the top-performing assets amid the crypto bull run in 2021, as its price hit $55.91 by May 2021. Though it dipped to as low as $23.49 in July 2021, SOL's price surged again in the second half of the year, hitting its all-time high of $258.93 in November 2021.
Solana is best known as a competitor to Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain project by market capitalization. Like Ethereum, Solana offers a way to build decentralized applications, which are similar to normal apps like Twitter and Robinhood, but with the help of blockchains, they strip away intermediaries.
One of the key problems with Ethereum is that it's expensive to execute programs. Ethereum has been building "layer 2" technologies to get around that problem. Solana aims to fix the scalability issues with what it claims is an improved underlying infrastructure that offers faster and cheaper transactions.
Cryptocurrencies are decentralized, with many distributed entities running the required infrastructure. Most cryptocurrencies use what's known as a "consensus mechanism" to tie all of these components together so that they agree which transactions are valid and which aren’t.
In order to accomplish that, Solana uses proof-of-stake, a popular consensus mechanism that's supposed to be more eco-friendly than Bitcoin's proof-of-work method. "Validators," tasked with ensuring transactions are valid, are chosen based on how many SOL tokens they own. But Solana's version of proof-of-stake has a twist. Solana's "core advancement," according to Solana's founder, is "proof-of-history." This refers to a method of proving that an event happened at a particular time. Proof-of-history aims to speed up the process of ordering transactions in a blockchain, which is integral to the system's security.
However, it's worth noting that some are skeptical of the security of alternatives to proof-of-work, because they might lead to a less decentralized system.
Solana was founded by software engineer Anatoly Yakovenko in 2017 and after three years of development, the platform and token were launched.
Solana's investors include Multicoin Capital, Distributed Global, BlockTower Capital, Foundation Capital, Blockchange Ventures, Slow Ventures, NEO Global Capital, Passport Capital and Rockaway Ventures.
Solana Market Cap
$19.96B
Solana 24H Volume
$124.32M
SOL is the native cryptocurrency of the Solana blockchain, a platform that has fast transaction times and inexpensive fees.
SOL is used in two ways:
Solana is an inflationary cryptocurrency with no hard cap on the total number of tokens. It has a starting annual inflation rate of 8%, which will decrease by 15% every year until it reaches 1.5%, which will be the fixed long-term rate.
Thirty-seven percent of the SOL tokens that were initially distributed went to investors, 25% was split between Solana's team and the Solana Foundation, the nonprofit steering development of the cryptocurrency, and 38% was sent to Solana Foundation's community fund reserve.
After the launch of SOL in March 2020, SOL's price bounced between $0.50 and $1.50 for the rest of the year. Then, SOL became one of the top-performing assets amid the crypto bull run in 2021, as its price hit $55.91 by May 2021. Though it dipped to as low as $23.49 in July 2021, SOL's price surged again in the second half of the year, hitting its all-time high of $258.93 in November 2021.
Solana is best known as a competitor to Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain project by market capitalization. Like Ethereum, Solana offers a way to build decentralized applications, which are similar to normal apps like Twitter and Robinhood, but with the help of blockchains, they strip away intermediaries.
One of the key problems with Ethereum is that it's expensive to execute programs. Ethereum has been building "layer 2" technologies to get around that problem. Solana aims to fix the scalability issues with what it claims is an improved underlying infrastructure that offers faster and cheaper transactions.
Cryptocurrencies are decentralized, with many distributed entities running the required infrastructure. Most cryptocurrencies use what's known as a "consensus mechanism" to tie all of these components together so that they agree which transactions are valid and which aren’t.
In order to accomplish that, Solana uses proof-of-stake, a popular consensus mechanism that's supposed to be more eco-friendly than Bitcoin's proof-of-work method. "Validators," tasked with ensuring transactions are valid, are chosen based on how many SOL tokens they own. But Solana's version of proof-of-stake has a twist. Solana's "core advancement," according to Solana's founder, is "proof-of-history." This refers to a method of proving that an event happened at a particular time. Proof-of-history aims to speed up the process of ordering transactions in a blockchain, which is integral to the system's security.
However, it's worth noting that some are skeptical of the security of alternatives to proof-of-work, because they might lead to a less decentralized system.
Solana was founded by software engineer Anatoly Yakovenko in 2017 and after three years of development, the platform and token were launched.
Solana's investors include Multicoin Capital, Distributed Global, BlockTower Capital, Foundation Capital, Blockchange Ventures, Slow Ventures, NEO Global Capital, Passport Capital and Rockaway Ventures.
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