Bitcoin BTC $80,440 -0.47% Ethereum ETH $2,329 -1.08% BNB BNB $751 0.81% Solana SOL $101 -0.88% XRP XRP $1.31 -1.97% Dogecoin DOGE $0.078773 -0.46% Pepe PEPE $0.000005 2.72% Sui SUI $0.923641 -1.06% Fartcoin FARTCOIN $0.130312 -1.29%

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Alpenglow Mainnet Is Live, So Why Is SOL Down? My $103.8 Long

Alpenglow Mainnet Is Live, So Why Is SOL Down? My $103.8 Long

Solana flipped on Alpenglow yesterday. Finality dropped from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. Then SOL fell 4% overnight anyway, to about $104. The upgrade didn’t fail. Wall Street did. Tesla and Meta reported after the close, Nasdaq futures sank,...

Jobs Report Lifts Solana to $122: Why I’m Still Short SOL

Jobs Report Lifts Solana to $122: Why I’m Still Short SOL

Solana trades near $122 this morning. Bitcoin, meanwhile, pushed to $87,000. Once again, a single data release moved the whole board. The September jobs report landed at 8:30 ET and missed badly. Because of that, traders dumped their rate hike bets...

How to Buy Solana (SOL) for the First Time

How to Buy Solana (SOL) for the First Time

To buy Solana, register on a major exchange, complete verification, deposit funds, and purchase SOL on the spot market, a process of about fifteen minutes. What separates SOL from every other coin in this series comes afterward: the network pays...

How to Buy STONK for the First Time

How to Buy STONK for the First Time

STONK is the token behind StonkFun, and buying it comes with the strangest quirk in this whole series: its main market prices it in tokenized S&P 500 shares, not dollars. You have three ways in: gasless through the FOMO app, on-chain via the...

How to Buy CATE for the First Time

How to Buy CATE for the First Time

CATE calls itself the cat sister of Dogecoin, and right now it is the loudest meme coin on TikTok. You have four ways in: gasless through the FOMO app, on-chain on Solana, spot on Gate or KuCoin, or Gate perps for leverage. One warning before any...

Best Solana Meme Coins for the Next Bull Run

Best Solana Meme Coins for the Next Bull Run

Meme season is back. At least, it seems so. The ANSEM coin sparked renewed interest in memes and brought the trenches back to life. Since then, money has been flowing around, and everyone is hunting "the next PEPE" of the new cycle. Which is the...

What Is CATE? The Cat Memecoin That Doubled Over the Weekend

What Is CATE? The Cat Memecoin That Doubled Over the Weekend

Cat season is back on Solana. CATE, the self-described cat sister of Dogecoin, went up 100% over the weekend and now sits around a $74 million market cap. A fresh Gate listing poured fuel on the fire. I also have a confession to make about this...