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The development team behind the Solana-based memecoin project – Bonk Inu (BONK) – has revealed burning over 5 trillion tokens, or 5% of the total supply. The blockchain data confirmed the process, which saw nearly $1 million worth of BONK removed from circulation. As a result, BONK’s circulating supply declined by 5% to 94.16 trillion. Updating the same, the devs tweeted, “BONK represents the best of Solana. Our community is working together across the ecosystem to make...

Magic Eden revealed that it will refund all the users who mistakenly bought unverified NFTs that showed up on the collection pages as a result of a recent breach. In a statement, the Solana-based NFT marketplace said that a bug was deployed in an update to two of its features – Snappy Marketplace and Pro Trade tools. As a result, unverified NFTs were listed in these two tools. More technically, the newly deployed “activity indexer” failed to detect dupe NFTs. Instead, the bug...

Solana has rallied for the week as the network continues to gain more users. Excitement over the new memecoin, Bonk Inu (BONK), coincided with the cryptocurrency’s rally. The asset is moving in stride, brushing off recent losses in connection with the FTX’s collapse. Solana is pulling through tough times. It’s rough for the Ethereum competitor, the DeFi ecosystem especially, as it is tough for the entire industry out there in this biting crypto winter. The gains for Solana...

Memecoins have been a part of the crypto culture for almost as long as the community existed, but 2020 and 2021 saw them soar to a whole new level. It got to a point where two memecoins – Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) became frequent members of the top-10 club (the 10 largest cryptocurrencies by means of total market capitalization). The bear market of 2022 has impacted most memecoins severely, but DOGE and SHIB continue to be leading coins. That said, there’s a new...

Last month, the Solana ecosystem was at the forefront of the FTX saga, taking a significant hit from the company’s bankruptcy filing. Since then, projects have left the network, while the native token lost a significant chunk of its USD value. Interestingly, the blockchain, once regarded as an “Ethereum Killer,” has received support from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. In a Twitter post on December 29, Buterin said the recent events in the crypto industry had washed away...

The Solana ecosystem that was once heavily tied to Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX has been badly wounded after the collapse. As debates accelerated over the prospects of Solana, its native token – SOL – has plummeted 96% from its all-time high of $260 in November last year. Adding to its woes, crypto asset management company Matrixport is reportedly gearing up to delist Solana and Solana-U dual currency investment products on December 30th. Interestingly, Matrixport is founded by...

Wading through the wreckage of FTX and Alameda, it is clear that some communities were hit a lot harder than others. Several DeFi protocols sporting close ties with the two entities have suffered. Solana, for one, has been hit the hardest since the collapse. The once top 10 market cap asset, SOL has slid to the 17th position, and the struggle may continue in 2023 as well. Solana FUD Solana (SOL) had an impressive run-up last year and was one of the best-performing tokens of...

DeGods and y00ts – have announced their departure from Solana and revealed that they would be migrating to Ethereum and Polygon. The two top NFT projects on Solana anticipate moving to new chains in the first quarter of 2023, according to their respective updates on Twitter. The duo stated, “The details of the bridge will be released when it’s ready & tested. This has never been done before at this scale. We want to make sure that it’s airtight.” Despite a rocky launch in...

Raydium – a Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) – was hacked for over $2 million on Friday.  According to Raydium, the hacker appears to have taken control of the exchange’s admin address to carry out the attack.  Over $2 Million Lost Raydium acknowledged the hack over Twitter, noting that investigations were still ongoing.  It provided a link to the attacker’s account, which appears to hold $1.45 million worth of Solana-based tokens at writing time. Solscan shows that...

The FTX meltdown may have laid the groundwork for an unprecedented shift in user activity from centralized finance (CeFi) to decentralized finance (DeFi), but the total value locked in the services provided by the latter has taken a serious hit. A new report by Dapp Radar suggested that the non-fungible token (NFT) market has not been spared by the downtrend either. DeFi, and NFT Winter Typically considered a potential antidote to the collapse, the total value locked across...