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Solana Bucked Bitcoin Sell-Off; Upstart Blockchain Challenges Ethereum on Speed, Fees
Solana's SOL tokens have jumped 17-fold in price this year, for a market capitalization over $8 billion.
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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Recovers From Sunday Slump to $56K as Doge Jumps 19%
Volumes on the CoinDesk 20 eight spot BTC venues was over $8 billion for the first time since Feb. 23.
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Solana Dashboard Step Finance Raises $2M From Alameda Research, 3 Commas
Investors are betting on Step Finance emerging as the “front page” of the high-throughput Solana blockchain.
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OKEx and MXC to Invest $40M in Solana-Based Projects in DeFi Arms Race
The funds will pay developers and projects building on the Solana ecosystem.
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Anchor Begins Countdown to Launch of Bank-Beating DeFi Savings Account
Anchor was originally slated for an October launch, but the team pushed that back to late November. With the countdown showing on its website, this could really be it.
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Alameda Research Pumps $20M Into Cross-Chain DeFi Platform Reef Finance
Sam Bankman-Fried's investment shop has bought $20 million in REEF tokens, with an eye to purchasing more.
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Tether Stablecoin Expands Its Reach to Another Blockchain
Tether has announced the expansion of its USDT token to an eighth blockchain.
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Alameda Leads $40M Round in ‘DeFi Prime Brokerage,’ Plans Maps.me Integration
The firm’s earlier investment in a travel app starts making sense.
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Blockchain Data Indexer 'The Graph' to Support Polkadot, Solana, NEAR and Celo
The project’s custom API “subgraphs” provide data to some of Ethereum’s top DeFi apps.
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Ether Soars to Another All-Time High, Carrying DeFi and Rival Coins With It
Investor excitement ahead of the CME's planned ether futures contract is one reason for the price push.
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