Solana Market Cap Hits $66.81 Billion (SOL)

Solana (SOL) traded down 5.5% against the dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 22:00 PM E.T. on May 7th. Solana has a market cap of $66.81 billion and approximately $2.60 billion worth of Solana was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. In the last seven days, Solana has traded up 18.4% against the dollar. One Solana coin can now be purchased for approximately $149.09 or 0.00237893 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges.

Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:

• KILT Protocol (KILT) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.30 or 0.00000476 BTC.
• Aidi Finance (BSC) (AIDI) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
• Zoo Token (ZOOT) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0652 or 0.00000239 BTC.
• CareCoin (CARES) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0809 or 0.00000297 BTC.
• Kitty Inu (KITTY) traded up 1.9% against the dollar and now trades at $95.84 or 0.00338062 BTC.
• Hokkaidu Inu (HOKK) traded up 1.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0004 or 0.00000001 BTC.
• Lego Coin (LEGO) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0086 or 0.00000013 BTC.
• Belrium (BEL) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $2.51 or 0.00009565 BTC.
• Jeff in Space (JEFF) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $2.75 or 0.00010076 BTC.
• Lumi Credits (LUMI) traded up 2.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0101 or 0.00000016 BTC.

Solana Profile

SOL uses the hashing algorithm. Its launch date was March 16th, 2020. Solana’s total supply is 575,547,996 coins and its circulating supply is 448,101,461 coins. The Reddit community for Solana is https://reddit.com/r/solana and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Solana’s official message board is solana.com/news. Solana’s official website is solana.com. Solana’s official Twitter account is @solana and its Facebook page is accessible here.

According to CryptoCompare, “Solana (SOL) is a high-performance blockchain that uses a delegated Proof-of-Stake (dPoS) consensus algorithm and a unique method of ordering transactions to improve speed and throughput. It can process over 50,000 transactions per second and has 400ms block times, allowing it to scale without relying on Layer-2 systems or sharding. The network has processed over 21 billion transactions and has a native cryptocurrency, the SOL utility token, which is used to pay for transaction fees and interact with smart contracts on the blockchain. It can also be staked to earn staking rewards. Decentralized applications being built on Solana may create additional use cases for the SOL token, such as being used as collateral for loans or earning interest when lent out.”

Solana Coin Trading

It is usually not presently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Solana directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Solana should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as GDAX, Gemini or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Solana using one of the aforementioned exchanges.

SOL/USD price chart by TradingView