Solana’s second smartphone has surpassed 100,000 pre-orders, Solana introduced on Monday.
The cellphones had a pre-order worth of US$450 amassing US$45 million for the blockchain firm.
The Saga telephone is a part of Solana’s broader ambition to broaden its ecosystem and make decentralized finance (DeFi) and different blockchain companies extra accessible.
Solana’s first telephone, Saga, was designed to supply a seamless interface for cryptocurrency transactions and decentralized functions (dapps), making it simpler for customers to handle their digital belongings on the go.
Though initially criticized for its US$1,000 price ticket, Saga homeowners had been compensated with complementary crypto belongings, together with ones that had been later airdropped.
Solana blockchain has the second-highest gross sales quantity for non-fungible tokens (NFT) with over US$4.9 billion, behind Ethereum’s US$42 billion, in keeping with CryptoSlam knowledge.
Solana’s community is commonly criticized for frequent outages. Its most up-to-date outage, which occurred final week, broke the blockchain’s streak of staying on-line for nearly a 12 months with out disruptions.
SOL, the native cryptocurrency of Solana rose 15% over the previous week to commerce at US$110, in keeping with CoinGecko knowledge.
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