Solana is a smart-contract blockchain oriented toward low-latency applications and high transaction throughput. SOL pays network fees and participates in staking. A growing application ecosystem includes trading, payments and consumer projects.
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Solana is a smart-contract blockchain oriented toward low-latency applications and high transaction throughput. SOL pays network fees and participates in staking. A growing application ecosystem includes trading, payments and consumer projects.
Solana combines proof-of-stake validation with its Proof of History timing technique. Parallel execution and a unified runtime are intended to support frequent on-chain interactions.
Trading applications, payments, tokens, collectibles, games and consumer-oriented blockchain software.
Low transaction costs and a design aimed at keeping many applications on one shared chain are defining characteristics.
Network reliability history, validator hardware requirements, token speculation, malicious tokens and smart-contract vulnerabilities.
