Solana Pay Revolutionizes E-commerce: Shopify Integration for Seamless USDC Payments

by Masao Akimoto - August 24, 2023September 14, 2023

In a groundbreaking development, Solana Pay, the decentralized payment protocol powered by Solana Labs, has seamlessly integrated its plug-in with Shopify, opening a new chapter in the world of e-commerce transactions. This exclusive integration, revealed to TechCrunch, is set to empower millions of businesses within the Shopify ecosystem to utilize

Solana’s New ChatGPT Plugin Helps Simplify User Experience on the Network

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by Masao Akimoto - May 25, 2023May 29, 2023

Solana's ChatGPT Plugin: Simplifying User Experience on the Network

In the race to adopt and advance with the help of AI (artificial intelligence), many top crypto platforms are introducing new and improved AI-focused features for their users - including Solana. According to an exclusive report from Solana Labs, the Solana Foundation, the nonprofit behind the layer-1 blockchain Solana, has formally

Helium Is All Sets to Fully Migrate to Solana By March 27

by Masao Akimoto - February 23, 2023April 27, 2023

Helium to migrate fully to Solana by March 27

Did you hear? On March 27, there will be a 24-hour changeover period during which the Helium blockchain will be paused. With this migration, activities like proof-of-coverage and data transmission will be impacted. Helium Network, a communications network, has set March 27 as the date for migrating to the Solana blockchain

Solgames: Web2 to Web3 transition made easy for gamers, game devs, and designers

by Masao Akimoto - November 18, 2022November 18, 2022

Solgames is a gaming marketplace that brings game developers, hard-core gamers, and designers into a common ecosystem. The gaming marketplace is powered by the Solana blockchain and provides Web3 as an infrastructure for game developers. It is a play-to-earn gaming platform that houses Web3 games for every game player. Solgames facilitates

Solana Wallet Phantom Taking Charge and Burning Spam NFTs

by Masao Akimoto - August 18, 2022August 18, 2022

The Solana-based wallet provider Phantom is taking matters into its own hands by launching a new burn feature that will allow users to remove spam NFTs sent by scammers. Phantom recently announced through a blog post that the new burn feature would be accessible on the Phantom Wallet App under the

Magic Eden Proposes Building ApeCoinDAO NFT Marketplace

by Masao Akimoto - August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

The leading Solana NFT marketplace, Magic Eden, has recently submitted a proposal to ApeCoinDAO to build a specialized NFT marketplace for $Apecoin users! This marketplace will be intended to provide utility to Apecoin holders by developing a custom marketplace to purchase and trade NFTs. The Proposal Magic Eden proposed to build an

Solana Hack and What Should You Learn From It?

by Masao Akimoto - August 6, 2022August 6, 2022

If you don’t know about the Solana Hack, you must be living under the rock as it is one of the most talked-about crypto hacks the industry has seen so far. The Solana hack drained thousands of user wallets (over 8000) on the blockchain network Solana and it wasn't a

Solana is Sponsoring Lollapalooza Yet Again

by Masao Akimoto - July 20, 2022July 20, 2022

The up-and-coming blockchain network Solana has announced that it is sponsoring the music festival Lollapalooza, the music festival. This isn’t the first that the proof-of-stake cryptocurrency is sponsoring the event, as it did so the previous year as well, which also resulted in a 7% price boost for the token

The Coolest Rabbits in the Metaverse – Cyber Rabbit

by Masao Akimoto - June 7, 2022June 7, 2022

The expanding metaverse has become home to exotic creatures and projects with robust utility. There is a new species in town to challenge the likes of apes and doges. Cyber Rabbit is the coolest rabbit in the metaverse that aims to capitalize on the earning aspect of the NFT industry

Solana Network Equals Carbon Neutral

by Masao Akimoto - April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

In the past few months, environmentalists and other concerned parties have been blaming the cryptocurrency ecosystem for its apparently high carbon footprint that is harming the environment. While the recent studies and numbers do not support this fact, the nay-sayers continue to blame digital currencies for everything wrong. Luckily, blockchain is