Ben Pasternak, the visionary behind Believe.app, is one of several betting on a future where startups won’t need to go through Sand Hill Road to begin with. He envisions a future of real “Internet Capital Markets.” Here’s how it works. In this utopian vision, developers wouldn’t just submit a glossy...
Among the alternatives, Solana has taken off as the high-performance blockchain of choice, posting a price around $150 as of 3/3/25. It has since proven itself to be the highest performing cryptocurrency, ranking in the top 10 virtually every day since by market capitalization. Because of its speed and low...
Solana, known for its speed and efficiency, recently faced a significant challenge: network congestion. Traders experienced bandwidth issues, with as much as a half-hour delay between transaction clearance. This development highlights the need for a robust solution to take the load off the peak demand. Enter Solaxy, a new Layer-2...
The blockchain space is as competitive as it gets, where incumbents such as Solana are always being threatened by the latest disruptive entrants. Solana is famous for its speed and efficiency. It now has to contend with new Layer 1 networks like Sui and TON, as well as Layer 2...
Okay, let's be real. We all saw that TRUMP token. Sure, a meme coin based on him would. The sheer audacity! It's either genius or a sign of the apocalypse, and frankly, I'm still trying to figure out which. I didn’t know what to do when I was just passively...
Today, Solana is hazily charting a path through an incredibly competitive environment, mountains of on-chain activity, and growing fears about the protocol’s decentralization. Once the network erupted with activity for 48 consecutive hours. This surge was powered largely by the success of President Donald Trump’s Official Trump TRUMP/USD token, bringing...
From the very start, its name alone conjured up images of speed, efficiency and an eventual challenger to Ethereum’s throne. But beneath the surface of blazing-fast transactions and impressive throughput lies a critical vulnerability: decentralization, or rather, the lack thereof. And this, my friends, might just be its greatest formidable...
Yakovenko's meta chain sounds like a silver bullet for crypto's fragmentation woes, but is it? Color me skeptical. Under the shiny promise of a world with standardized data order, there’s a deep maze of technical challenges and landmines. It’s a risky bet and quite honestly, I don’t think the house...
Solaxy, a Layer 2 solution for Solana, is rapidly gaining prominence as it addresses the network's scalability challenges and aligns with the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) vision for a tokenized capital market. With Solana experiencing significant growth, including an $88 billion valuation, 82 million active users, and $20 billion...
Anatoly Yakovenko, one of the co-founders of Solana, has suggested a novel “meta blockchain” approach. This new initiative seeks to address the growing challenge of data fragmentation between all the various layer-1 blockchains. This proposal comes amid increasing calls for greater interoperability and collaborative economics within the cryptocurrency industry, highlighted...
