What is Solana, and how does it work?

What is Solana? Solana is a highly functional open source project that implements a new, permissionless and high-speed layer-1 blockchain. Created in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko, a former executive at Qualcomm, Solana aims to scale throughput beyond what is typically achieved by popular blockchains while keeping costs low. Solana implements an innovative hybrid consensus model […]
DeFi in the spotlight as legacy brokerages break down

As retail trust in the stock market comes under strain, DeFi developers champion an alternative system.