Solana DEX Jupiter Announces 50% Buyback, Moonshot Acquisition

Jupiter, one of the leading Solana-focused decentralized exchanges, has made major announcements as part of Catstambul, its first community-focused conference held in Turkey. The project revealed the acquisition of a majority stake in Moonshot, a meme coin creation and distribution platform on Solana. Jupiter also announced that it would burn $3 billion of its own … Read more

Solana Outshines Ethereum, Achieving Over 5 Billion DEX Transactions in the Last 3 Months

Solana’s increasing popularity has seen the blockchain outpace Ethereum with over 5 billion dex transactions and 344 million active addresses in the past three months. Solana’s Impressive Transaction Volume Underscores Its Potential to Rival Ethereum Over the past three months, Solana has eclipsed Ethereum in several key metrics, as it makes it claim to be … Read more

Phantom Achieves $3 Billion Valuation Following $150 Million Funding Round

Phantom, a Solana-focused cryptocurrency wallet with over 15 million monthly users, has reached a $3 billion valuation after raising $150 million in its Series C funding round. The round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Paradigm, with the participation of A16crypto and Variant. Phantom aims to get mainstream with this fund influx, accelerating crypto adoption … Read more

XRP Community Gets New Rewards, Fed Rules out BTC Reserves, and More — Week in Review

XRP community gets new rewards, Fed rules out BTC reserves, Strike CEO says Trump eyeing US BTC reserve, and more in this Week in Review. Week in Review Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin debuted on Uphold, offering rewards and benefits to XRP holders. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell ruled out the possibility of the Fed holding Bitcoin … Read more

Bitwise Launches Solana ETP in Europe

Bitwise expands its suite of crypto staking solutions with the launch of a solana staking exchange-traded product (ETP). Solana ETP Launched in Europe While Bitwise U.S. Solana ETF Stalls Bitwise, a crypto asset management firm has introduced a Solana staking exchange-traded product (ETP) in Europe with the ticker BSOL. This comes less than a month … Read more

A Memecoin Gem From the Trenches

A bunch of treasure hunters, inspired by the film ‘The Goonies’, & their own quest & adventure, uncovered a blockchain treasure called KWIF, Kitten Wif Hat. What does that mean? Settle in for an exciting, still breaking story brought to you by Pedro Garcia, crypto chart analyst for DYOR Media. Crypto Treasure Hunters Uncover Hidden … Read more

Classic Games Meet Web3: Snake on Solana

Join Regina as she explores SOL Arena, a new battle royale on the Solana network that combines the simplicity of Snake with the intensity of Web3 competition. Last Week’s Quick Recap Nifty Island is a decentralized metaverse and social platform where players can build, explore, and engage in a virtual world. It emphasizes land ownership … Read more

Exploring Web3 Farming With Pixels

Join Regina as she plays Pixel. If you’re a fan of digital farming games like Farmville, Pixels might be your next obsession. Set in a vibrant pixelated world and powered by the Ronin blockchain, this free-to-play Web3 game offers players the chance to grow crops, complete quests, and more. Last week’s quick recap In the … Read more

Solana Mobile Unveils Seeker, Its Next Web3 Focused Phone

Solana Mobile unveiled its next Web3 Phone, the successor to the Solana Saga, its first product. The phone, referred to previously as “Chapter 2,” is now called the Seeker, and has been confirmed to feature a 6.36” display, with 128GB of storage and 8GB of RAM, “a longer battery” and two cameras. The phone will … Read more

Brazilian Securities Regulator Greenlights Second Solana Spot ETF

The Brazilian Securities Regulator (CVM) approved a solana spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) on Tuesday, the second of its kind in the country. According to data from the CVM database, this new instrument will be offered by Hashdex, a Brazil-based cryptocurrency asset management company with nearly a billion in assets under management held locally, in partnership … Read more