Solana’s 300ms speed boost to outrun trading bots might come with a hidden cost
Fee-charging pools have the clearest modeled benefit, while proprietary market makers and validators face different trade-offs.
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Solana beats Bitcoin on one key metric, but a single software bug could still take down the network
A live reading is already 18, showing why institutions need more than one decentralization metric.
Solana’s “million-payments-a-second” AI system can leave sellers unpaid even after they deliver
Behind the million-per-second benchmark, operator failure tests who funds customer recovery and whether merchants can still collect their final bill.
Solana’s weekly ETF inflows fell 97% while CME funds became less net short
SOL ETFs stayed net positive in the week ending Sept. 4, while a separate Sept. 1 snapshot showed reduced net short exposure.
Solana’s plan to cut account deposits by 90% could weaken a reason to hold SOL
Only the first cut is live; the full plan would require tenfold persistent account state to preserve the old minimum SOL reserves.
This Japanese company made money on Ethereum, Solana, and XRP, but sold them anyway to keep its $121 million Bitcoin holdings
The ¥878.8 million exit left its crypto portfolio Bitcoin-only, yet management may deploy the cash beyond crypto.
Solana processed 5.2 billion transactions after revenue collapsed 87% – here’s what changed
August activity reached a new high after the memecoin fee boom that inflated revenue a year earlier had faded.
Bitcoin ETF inflows snap after $3 billion streak as ETH, XRP and Solana keep buying
The $201.9 million reversal left Bitcoin's week positive and supplied only one session of evidence for a cross-asset shift.
Kraken and Galaxy flipped late as Solana approved a major supply cut
Abstentions created the smaller public margin, while on-chain finalization remained pending at the latest check.
Solana traders on OnlyFans just saved a 64-year marmot wildlife study after federal funding stopped
Every summer in Gothic, Colorado, a yellow-bellied marmot walks into a wire trap baited with oats and peanut butter. A scientist weighs it, takes samples, checks its ear tags, paints a temporary identification mark on its back, and releases it back into the mountain meadow. The scientific value of this emerges through accumulation, with thousands …
Ethereum and Solana are hosting trillions in dollar volume, yet their native tokens risk losing direct consumer demand
Paymasters and sponsors can keep native tokens out of sight, but Ethereum and Solana still require fees funded in ETH or SOL.
Morgan Stanley leads Solana ETF $9 million inflows as SOL jumps rises above $100
Farside's six tracked products drew $3.6 million on Aug. 26 as only BSOL and VSOL reported positive net flow.
Cardano and Solana just exposed crypto governance’s biggest weakness
Cardano’s DReps and SPOs are below threshold, while Solana’s validator defaults, staker overrides and conflicting pass rules complicate what low turnout means.
Solana takes its first step toward sub-second speed by cutting block confirmation times across the network
Epoch 1021 averaged 365.4ms spacing with a 0.077% skip rate, while the 300ms stage remained pending.
Take-Two branded SEC filings push GTA VI Solana currency linked to memecoin trading
One PDF describes Sharkbux and another considers an SPL architecture, while a named wallet proves no official connection.
Solana stakers face yield cuts as a treasury firm fights to protect 99.4% of its revenue
Solana Company announced opposition to faster disinflation, while native stakers retain the power to override a validator’s default.
Solana’s first governance vote nears with a live 60% quorum display error
An unmerged frontend fix must replace live-stake math with the constitution’s one-third snapshot test before epoch 1021.
Solana’s 50,000 SOL security contest did not cover a clock attack disclosed months earlier
Legacy PoH and TowerBFT paths were out of scope, and no paper-specific implementation review is public.
Solana is slashing per-block compute limits so its new 350ms speed boost doesn’t overload the network
The draft cuts per-slot limits as slots shorten, squeezing leader handoffs and off-chain timing without raising the theoretical CU-per-second ceiling.
Yakovenko wants Solana to mint SOL to buy a company, but who would own it?
Stake-weighted approval could authorize a direction, but no target, legal buyer, ownership structure or operating authority has been named.