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,...
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NEAR Sunrise Launch: Solana Access Sends NEAR Up 14%, and My Long Got Stopped Anyway
NEAR is now live on Solana. On October 15, Near Protocol and Sunrise switched on a route that puts NEAR liquidity straight into Solana wallets, Jupiter, Raydium and the aggregators. The token jumped about 14% on the news and traded between $5.24...
What Are the Trenches in Crypto? Meaning, Origin, and Survival Slang
Spend ten minutes on Crypto Twitter and someone will claim they are "in the trenches." No, they have not enlisted. They are trading meme coins. The trenches are crypto slang for the chaotic, high-risk frontier of brand-new meme coin trading. Tokens...
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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