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class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title">Solana</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Solana_logo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/Solana_logo.png/252px-Solana_logo.png" decoding="async" width="252" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Solana_logo.png 1.5x" data-file-width="316" data-file-height="316" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: silver">Denominations</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Code</th><td class="infobox-data">SOL</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: silver">Development</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Original author(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Anatoly Yakovenko, Raj Gokal</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/White_paper" title="White paper">White paper</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://solana.com/solana-whitepaper.pdf">Solana: A new architecture for a high performance blockchain</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Repository_(version_control)" title="Repository (version control)">Code repository</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://github.com/solana-labs/solana">https://github.com/solana-labs/solana</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Development status</th><td class="infobox-data">Active</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Software_developer" class="mw-redirect" title="Software developer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Solana Labs & Solana Foundation</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Apache_2.0" class="mw-redirect" title="Apache 2.0">Apache 2.0</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: silver">Ledger</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Block explorer</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://explorer.solana.com/">https://explorer.solana.com/</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: silver">Website</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://solana.com/">solana<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Solana</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Blockchain" title="Blockchain">blockchain</a> platform which uses a <a href="/wiki/Proof-of-stake" class="mw-redirect" title="Proof-of-stake">proof-of-stake</a> mechanism to provide <a href="/wiki/Smart_contract" title="Smart contract">smart contract</a> functionality. Its native <a href="/wiki/Cryptocurrency" title="Cryptocurrency">cryptocurrency</a> is SOL. </p><p>Solana was launched in 2020 by Solana Labs, which was founded by Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal in 2018. The blockchain has experienced several major outages, was subjected to a hack, and a <a href="/wiki/Class_action" title="Class action">class action lawsuit</a> was filed alleging that Solana sells unregistered <a href="/wiki/Security_(finance)" title="Security (finance)">securities</a>, and misled investors about the number of tokens. The <a href="/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" title="U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission">SEC</a> has also filed a lawsuit against a cryptocurrency exchange alleging that Solana should be regulated as a security. </p><p>Solana's total <a href="/wiki/Market_capitalization#Cryptocurrencies" title="Market capitalization">market cap</a> was <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$55 billion</span> in January 2022. However, by the end of 2022, this had fallen to around $3 billion following the <a href="/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_FTX" title="Bankruptcy of FTX">bankruptcy of FTX</a>. Following the general rise of the cryptocurrency market in 2023, its market cap rose to $7 billion. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characteristics">Characteristics</h2></div> <p>According to the company's <a href="/wiki/White_paper" title="White paper">white paper</a>, Solana runs on a <a href="/wiki/Proof_of_stake" title="Proof of stake">proof of stake</a> model.<sup id="cite_ref-CNBCLocke_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBCLocke-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a></i> described the coin as an alternative to <a href="/wiki/Ethereum" title="Ethereum">Ethereum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <p>Solana was first opened to the public in March 2020,<sup id="cite_ref-CNBCLocke_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBCLocke-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with its first block being created on 16 March 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources"><span title="This claim needs a reference to a independent, third-party source. (March 2023)">third-party source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The Solana blockchain was designed to support smart contracts and <a href="/wiki/Decentralized_application" title="Decentralized application">decentralized apps</a> in particular.<sup id="cite_ref-CNBCLocke_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBCLocke-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CNBCGoswami_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBCGoswami-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Large numbers of simultaneous transactions have contributed to several outages of the Solana blockchain.<sup id="cite_ref-CNBCGoswami_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBCGoswami-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2021, Solana Labs sold $314 million worth of its native cryptocurrency, SOL, to a group of funds led by <a href="/wiki/Andreessen_Horowitz" title="Andreessen Horowitz">Andreessen Horowitz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Polychain_Capital" title="Polychain Capital">Polychain Capital</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 1 July 2022, a <a href="/wiki/Class_action" title="Class action">class action lawsuit</a> was filed against Solana Labs. The lawsuit accused Solana of selling unregistered <a href="/wiki/Security_(finance)" title="Security (finance)">securities</a> tokens in the form of Solana from 24 March 2020, onward and that Solana deliberately misled investors concerning the total circulating supply of SOL tokens. According to the lawsuit, Anatoly Yakovenko, the founder of Solana Labs, lent a market maker more than 11.3 million tokens in April 2020 and failed to disclose this information to the public. The lawsuit claimed that Solana stated it would reduce the supply by this amount, but it only burned 3.3 million tokens.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 3 August, 2022, 9,231 Solana wallets were hacked<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and four Solana wallet addresses stole approximately $8 million from victims.<sup id="cite_ref-Bloomberg_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bloomberg-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Solana Foundation said that the hack was caused by digital wallet software from Slope Finance.<sup id="cite_ref-Bloomberg_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bloomberg-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2023, Solana Mobile, a subsidiary of Solana Labs,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> began selling the Solana Saga, an <a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a> smartphone with several Solana-based decentralized apps preinstalled.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2023, the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" title="U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission">SEC</a> sued <a href="/wiki/Coinbase" title="Coinbase">Coinbase</a>, alleging that Solana and twelve other currencies offered by the platform failed the <a href="/wiki/SEC_v._W._J._Howey_Co." title="SEC v. W. J. Howey Co.">Howey Test</a> and qualified as securities. The suit accuses Coinbase of illegally evading <a href="/wiki/United_States_securities_regulation" title="United States securities regulation">requirements for disclosure</a> by offering these tokens. The SEC had previously issued a <a href="/wiki/Wells_notice" title="Wells notice">Wells notice</a> to Coinbase in March.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Solana Foundation has denied that the token is a security.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2023, <a href="/wiki/Visa_Inc." title="Visa Inc.">Visa</a> announced that along with payment processors <a href="/wiki/Worldpay,_Inc." title="Worldpay, Inc.">Worldpay, Inc.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nuvei" title="Nuvei">Nuvei</a>, it had added support for the Solana blockchain to send payments to merchants using the stablecoin <a href="/wiki/USD_Coin" title="USD Coin">USD Coin</a> (USDC), rather than fiat currency via bank wire.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Market_value">Market value</h3></div> <p>The value of Solana tokens has fluctuated greatly since the system's inception. The market capitalization of the Solana blockchain surpassed $63 billion in September 2021,<sup id="cite_ref-BloombergWellsKharif_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BloombergWellsKharif-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and reached $74 billion in early November 2021, having risen by nearly 12,000% that year to a price of $259.96.<sup id="cite_ref-CNBCLocke_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBCLocke-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The blockchain's popularity at this time was due in part to interest in <a href="/wiki/Non-fungible_token" title="Non-fungible token">NFTs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CNBCGoswami_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBCGoswami-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2022, the price of Solana dropped by 40 percent in one day following the <a href="/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_FTX" title="Bankruptcy of FTX">bankruptcy of FTX</a>, due to sell off from <a href="/wiki/Alameda_Research" title="Alameda Research">Alameda Research</a>. Solana was Alameda's second-largest holding at the time<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and FTX held $982 million in Solana tokens.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the end of 2022, Solana had lost more than $50 billion in value since the beginning of the year.<sup id="cite_ref-CNBCGoswami_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBCGoswami-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since the start of 2023 until 15 March, coinciding with a rise in the cryptocurrency market, Solana's value had risen by 100 percent to a <a href="/wiki/Market_capitalization" title="Market capitalization">market capitalization</a> of around $7 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 11 June 2023, Solana dropped nearly 30% in one day after the SEC announced that it would make the case in court that Solana is a financial security, causing big exchanges to liquidate their holdings, including <a href="/wiki/Robinhood_Markets" title="Robinhood Markets">Robinhood</a> which delisted SOL and other tokens named by the SEC in its lawsuit.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Outages">Outages</h2></div> <p>The Solana blockchain had experienced several notable outages in service. </p><p>On 14 September, 2021, the Solana blockchain went offline after a surge of transactions caused the network to <a href="/wiki/Fork_(blockchain)" title="Fork (blockchain)">fork</a>, and different <a href="/wiki/Validator_(blockchain)" class="mw-redirect" title="Validator (blockchain)">validators</a> had different views of the state of the network. The network was brought back online the next day on 15 September, 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-yahoo20210915_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo20210915-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The outage lasted a total of about 17 hours.<sup id="cite_ref-BloombergWellsKharif_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BloombergWellsKharif-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Solana blockchain again went offline on 1 May, with the outage lasting roughly seven hours due to it being taken offline by bots.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The blockchain went offline again on 31 May, 2022, due to a bug in how the blockchain processes offline transactions. This outage lasted about four and a half hours.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 1 October, 2022, the Solana network went down for 6 hours due to a consensus bug in the validator client allowing a misconfigured node to publish multiple valid but different blocks.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Solana's outages have frequently resulted in the value of the network's native SOL token falling.<sup id="cite_ref-CNBCGoswami_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBCGoswami-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies" title="List of cryptocurrencies">List of cryptocurrencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decentralized_finance" title="Decentralized finance">Decentralized finance</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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