Solana gains 80% in a month as Firedancer goes live on testnet
Solana’s SOL (SOL) has posted 30-day positive aspects of practically 81% and has rallied over 30% previously week amid the testnet launch of the blockchain’s long-awaited scaling answer, Firedancer.
SOL reached over $41 on Nov. 2, touching highs it hasn’t seen since August final yr, Cointelegraph Markets Professional knowledge exhibits.
Lengthy touted as an “Ethereum killer,” SOL has vastly outperformed its rival, Ether (ETH), which posted underneath 11% positive aspects previously month.
SOL-related funding merchandise have additionally seen hundreds of thousands of {dollars} price of inflows over the previous few weeks, in accordance with CoinShares. SOL is, nevertheless, nonetheless down round 84% from its Nov. 6, 2021, all-time excessive of just about $260.
On Oct. 31 at Solana’s Breakpoint convention, Solana Basis govt director Dan Albert announced the testnet launch of Firedancer, which Web3 growth agency Leap Crypto has been constructing since final August.
Firedancer is a brand new validator consumer for the community, which Solana Labs founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko has stated is aimed toward rising pace, reliability and validator variety. Its slated mainnet launch is within the first half of 2024.
Firedancer has been dubbed the long-term repair to Solana’s previous community outage issues, which Yakovenko referred to as a “curse.”
Solana suffered 14 partial or main outages in 2022, however its uptime improved in 2023, with just one main outage, reported in February.
Nonetheless, there are considerations that promoting stress might hit SOL as $56 million price of the cryptocurrency tied to FTX was unstaked and despatched to an unknown pockets. A further $32 million price of SOL linked to FTX and Alameda Analysis has additionally moved to a pockets suspected to be the corporations’ designated liquidator, Galaxy Digital.
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Different altcoins additionally noticed sturdy worth rallies over the month as crypto market sentiment turned constructive. On Nov. 2, the Crypto Concern & Greed Index jumped six factors from the day earlier than to 72 out of 100, reflecting a sentiment of “greed.”
Chainlink’s LINK (LINK) noticed an over-54% achieve within the final 30 days. In the meantime, Bitcoin (BTC), Avalanche (AVAX) and Close to (NEAR) posted 30-day positive aspects of 30%, 32% and 37.5%, respectively.
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