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Story: Is Solana (SOL) The Best Blockchain Out There Right Now?

By Sydney TheCMO

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There are very few utility tokens that have as much growth potential as Solana’s native cryptocurrency called SOL.

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SOL traded at $1.84 on January 1, 2021, which is impressive considering that it traded below 25 cents during its ICO.

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 SOL’s impressive price performance is courtesy of its role on the Solana network. The latter is a blockchain created by Anatoly Yakovenko, a former software engineer at Qualcomm.

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Although the approaches used to develop the Solana blockchain are complex, the idea of time-stamping transactions brought about drastic improvements for the network.

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Solana can handle more than 50,000 transactions per second and it is also compatible with smart contracts.

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Proof-of-history introduces a verifiable delay function to the SHA-256 mining algorithm, facilitating time-stamps for all the transactions on the Solana network.

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Solana’s network seems to jump the hoops of the blockchain trilemma and its impressive performance, as well as features, are the reason why it is currently one of the most…

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SOL inflation schedule and blockchain growth

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SOL has an inflation schedule that kicked off in February at 8% which was voted upon by the Solana community in January 2021.

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As far as growth is concerned, Solana seems to be on the right track. The blockchain had more than 100 projects by the end of December 2020.

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There has been no shortage of projects on the Solana blockchain and this has contributed to the strong growth of the platform.

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Solana is so well-developed that some projects have migrated from other blockchains in its favor.

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