Since the start of December, Solana’s daily stablecoin transfer volume has grown 600% to $16.6 billion and now outpaces major blockchain networks, according to Artemis, an institutional crypto data platform.

According to CoinGecko data, the market value of SOL has grown to $33,186,934,094, surpassing XRP's market value of $33,021,191,450, becoming the world's fifth largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

Golden Finance reported that the Solana ecosystem P2E game MixMob announced an upcoming airdrop. Previously, on February 5th, MixMob announced it had received $7 million in seed funding, led by Defiance Capital.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, at 17:55 Beijing time, 700,000 SOL (worth $52.46 million) was transferred from an unknown address to another address.

According to official sources, Solana ecological sustainable contract DEX Drift Protocol announced that its 30-day trading volume has exceeded 1 billion US dollars.

On December 18th, according to Cryptoslam data, the Solana NFT transaction volume reached $92.06 million in the past 7 days, surpassing the Ethereum NFT transaction volume of $91.32 million during the same period for the first time. In addition, the Bitcoin NFT transaction volume reached $365 million in the past 7 days.

According to an official announcement on December 18th, stablecoin issuer Circle announced that its Euro stablecoin EURC has been launched on the Solana network, making Solana the fourth blockchain where EURC can be natively used, along with Avalanche, Ethereum, and Stellar. Developers and users can now build and trade both EURC and USDC on Solana, sending, spending, and storing funds globally in a faster and more cost-effective way.

DeFi Technologies Inc. announced that it has completed the agreement to acquire the core intellectual property ("IP") of the Solana blockchain.

BONK Phone, Who Dis?

On December 17th, Kyle Samani, co-founder of Multicoin Capital, stated on social media that owners of Solana Web3 phone Saga are expected to receive airdrops within the next 12 months.

On December 16th, according to DeFiLlama data, the 24-hour trading volume of DEX on the Solana network is about 1.475 billion US dollars, surpassing the Ethereum network (about 1.164 billion US dollars), and the trading volume in the past week is 6.429 billion US dollars, an increase of 52.75%.

According to the market data from EuYi OKX, SOL has broken through 79 USDT in a short time, reaching a new high for the year; it is currently reported at 78.41 USDT, with a 24-hour increase of 8.03%.

Solana Mobile has announced on the X platform that the Solana Web3 phone Saga has officially sold out in the United States. Currently, there is still some inventory available for purchase in Europe.

On December 15th, Solana Mobile announced on social media that the US Solana Web3 phone Saga has officially sold out. Currently, there is still some inventory available for users to purchase in Europe.

Solana Mobile posted on the X platform stating that the Solana Web3 phone Saga has been sold out in the United States. Currently, there are some stocks available for users to choose from in Europe.

Continued inflows at US$43m, Blockchain equities see largest inflows on record

Solana launched the Web3 phone Saga, which comes with a bonus of BONK tokens worth more than the official price of the phone. Wallets holding the Saga Genesis Token obtained upon activating the Saga phone can claim 30 million BONK tokens within the Bonk DApp, which are currently worth over $750 as of the time of writing. The official price of the Solana Saga phone is only $599.

BONK, a Solana-based meme coin, has reached a market cap of over $1 billion for the first time ever, landing at 69th on CoinGecko's ranking of the most valuable cryptocurrencies. Its price has surged 64% over the past 24 hours after being listed on Coinbase, America's largest crypto exchange. However, BONK is known for its volatility and quickly dipped about 6% before continuing to climb again. BONK's gains over the past seven days have marked a sizable 75% rise, extending to 791% over the past 30 days.

Whale Alert has monitored that around 3:46 AM on Friday Beijing time, 249,999 SOL were transferred from an unknown wallet to FTX Estate account, worth $18,358,953.

HashFlow officially announced that it has launched on the Solana network. Users can now conduct SOL native transactions on HashFlow without affecting usability, liquidity, pricing, or custody.