News with the tag "Solana news"

Pump.fun has launched its own decentralized exchange (DEX), dubbed PumpSwap, with the goal of becoming the go-to trading venue for Solana memecoins. The new DEX aims to displace Raydium, which currently dominates Solana’s memecoin trading activity. Starting on March 20, memecoins that successfully b...

Florida-based Volatility Shares LLC is launching two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to Solana futures. According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), these products will begin trading today—marking the first time traditional finance (TradFi) investors gain specialized...

CME's Solana futures have debuted with a low volume

Layer-1 blockchain Solana is marking its fifth anniversary since its mainnet launch in March 2020, solidifying itself as a cornerstone of the crypto industry. Despite facing turbulence—including market crashes, high-profile collapses, and network outages—Solana has emerged as one of the busiest chai...

Cryptocurrency prices extended slide on Monday, with SOL dropping near $120

In a newly released market perspective titled Solana vs. Ethereum Decentralized Finance, global investment firm Franklin Templeton sheds light on the increasingly competitive landscape in decentralized finance (DeFi). According to the document, “DeFi protocols have rapidly become foundational primit...

Earlier this week, a wallet linked to the collapsed crypto exchange FTX and its trading arm, Alameda Research, unstaked $431.3 million worth of Solana (SOL). A portion of those funds —$3.4 million, to be exact—have been transferred to Binance. When wallets transfer assets to crypto exchanges, they a...

On Sunday, US President Donald Trump unveiled a Strategic Crypto Reserve featuring multiple digital assets: Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana (SOL), and Cardano (ADA). Many observers were initially surprised to see altcoins—particularly XRP, SOL, and ADA—in a federal-level announcement once presumed to re...

The Ripple boss believes that crypto needs more capitalism and less mercantilism

Solana has recorded a massive month-over-month plunge in token growth