Solana


Finance

Solana Tokens or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Points

Could loyalty programs and token airdrops embiggen Solana DeFi? Danny Nelson heads to Utah to find out.

Cypher founder and mtnDAO emcee Barrett (Danny Nelson)

Markets

MakerDAO’s MKR, Ripple’s XRP and Stellar’s XLM Led Crypto Gainers in July

Cryptocurrency giants bitcoin and ether, meanwhile, lost ground during the month.

Crypto leaders in July (CoinDesk Indices)

Markets

Bitcoin Teeters Around $29.2K as Crypto Markets Slide Amid Curve Exploit, SEC Clampdown on Hex

BTC hovered comfortably over $29,300 for much of the weekend but dropped in the hours after Curve Finance tweeted that it had suffered a breach.

Bitcoin daily chart. (CoinDesk Indices)

Videos

Parrot Finance Starting PRT Token Buyback Next Week

DeFi protocol Parrot Finance is moving forward with an activist investor-led plan to phase out its governance token (PRT) and will begin redemptions on Monday. Parrot’s redemption program comes two years into the project’s unremarkable run on the Solana blockchain, where it has failed to catch fire despite raising over $90 million from investors. "The Hash" panel discusses what this suggests about the fate of the Parrot protocol and the state of DeFi at large.

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Markets

Parrot Finance to Begin PRT Token Buyback on Monday, Capping Fiery Vote

Activist investors applied heavy pressure to Parrot’s developer team.

Parrot Finance failed to catch fire despite raising over $90 million. (Parrot Finance)

Markets

KIN Token Surges Over 20% After Vote to Burn 70% of Supply Passes

The token climbed on news that about 7 trillion KIN tokens worth $156 million will be burned.

Ted Livingston speaks at Kin Ambassadors event in NYC April 2018. Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk.

Markets

Stellar, Ripple and Solana-Based Investment Funds See AUM Spike in July

The large gains began following Ripple’s partial court victory over the SEC in the middle of the month.

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Markets

Crypto Lender Credix Brings Additional Private Credit Pool on Solana With 11% Yield

Decentralized finance platform Credix opens a trade receivables lending pool with the Solana Foundation among the investors.

Coin98 joins a growing roster of DeFi protocols crafting their own stablecoin. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Web3

Solana-Based NFT Marketplace Exchange.art to Expand Into Ethereum

Larisa Barbu, COO of Exchange.art, told CoinDesk that the marketplace had planned to expand beyond the Solana ecosystem since its launch in 2021.

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Markets

DeFi Project Parrot Holds Contentious Vote on Future of $70M Treasury

The redemption plan for the protocol appears to heavily favor employees and Parrot’s venture investors.

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