In February 2021
Solana's second hackathon in February 2021 saw 3,000 registrations, three times the number of the first, and 100 projects submitted.
In June 2021
In addition to SBF and FTX, Solana has also attracted interest from other investors. In June 2021, Solana raised $314.15 million in venture Capital, led by Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) and Polychain Capital.
In May 2021
In May 2021, Solana held its third hackathon, with more than 13,000 developers signing up to submit 350 projects.
In September 2021
Solana ecology continues to grow. Up to now, Solana ecology projects are up to 302, covering a variety of DeFi applications, including DEX, NFT, stablecoin, Prophet, wallet, browser and so on. Other mature projects are also integrating Solana, such as Terra, Chainlink, Oxygen Protocol, The Graph, and more.
In July 2020
Solana's first major turning point came in July 2020, when cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX announced that it had chosen Solana as the underlying public chain to establish Serum, a decentralized trading platform (DEX). Behind FTX is Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). SBF can be said to be Solana's talent scout, because before THE announcement of FTX, few people knew about Solana. After all, there are endless new public chain projects in the market, and most of them are flash in the pan. Solana's token SOL rose 170% in a month after the FTX announcement.
In March 2020
When Solana goes online, there are more than 800 global nodes in the main network, with a maximum TPS of 65,000, a block generation time of about 400 milliseconds, and a single transaction cost as low as $0.00001
In November 2020
SBF's influence has attracted a lot of developers to Solana. At the Solana hackathon in November 2020, more than 1,000 developers signed up and submitted 60 projects.
November 9, 2021
Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, announced at the Solana conference in Lisbon Its investment arm Seven Seven Six and Solana Ventures have launched a $50 million Web3 social media fund to support the development of Web3 social media applications on Solana.
November 4, 2021
Solana Ventures, FTX and Lightspeed Ventures have launched a $100 million online game fund to invest in studios and startups that make online games.