The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the two brothers behind Solana stablecoin exchange Saber Labs, Ian and Dylan Macalinao, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Solana’s price has achieved an unexpected week-long rally, causing it to significantly outperform almost all other cryptocurrencies. As the price of the centralized smart contract token stabilizes, investors are showing interest in how high it can go.

Prices of Bonkz NFTs have surged 10 times since their initial mint on Tuesday, attracting over $900,000 in trading volume after all 15,000 collectibles were sold.

Solana-based automated market maker (AMM) Raydium was exploited. The exploit affected liquidity pools and hackers stole more than $4 million.

Recent developments on the Solana blockchain network have led to increased activity among developers, which is being seen as a positive sign for the cryptocurrency--leading Solana's price to skyrocket in recent days. According to data from crypto aggregator Lunar Crush, social mentions of the dubbed "Ethereum Killer" altcoin spiked in January 2023, indicating growing popularity in the crypto community.

Solana-based token Bonk Inu (BONK) will offer over 15,000 non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles on Solana marketplace Magic Eden on Tuesday, a representative told CoinDesk over email.

Solana (SOL) has been included in the top cryptocurrencies to watch out for this week of finance and crypto-focused site Investopedia.

The price of Dogecoin (DOGE) has surged 7.8% over the day, making it the second-best performing asset among the top 10 cryptocurrencies.

Solana Status sent out a tweet to let people know that RPC endpoints run by the Solana Foundation aren’t working right now because a bug was found in the test release 1.14. Members have been asked to switch to the 1.13 test release until the team does the repairs.

Solana’s native coin, SOL, is one of today’s top performers, pumping by 24%. But analysts anticipate a correction.

The value of both Solana and Cardano spiked by over 21 percent late Sunday, according to data from CoinGecko, both reentering territory not seen by either since November. Cardano, the eighth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, saw its price spike to $0.33—a price not seen since November 19. Meanwhile, Solana, which kicked off a remarkable run with an 11% jump in value on Monday, spiked again Sunday to $16.04, territory it hasn't seen since Nov. 9, when it was partway through a collapse of more than 50% over the prior three days. Solana saw the best first week of the year out of any top-2o coin, today clearing a 60% increase over seven days. It's a remarkable rebound for SOL, which plummeted more than 41% in the wake of the FTX collapse. Once called an "Ethereum killer," Solana was once a favorite of Sam Bankman-Fried. (Decrypt)

We shouldn’t be surprised that Solana and Polygon networks face DDoS attacks that slowed down transactions and made these networks unusable on multiple occasions. This is the price of centralization.

Bonk Inu in a tweet on January 7 claimed that user experience on the Solana blockchain is so good that even Polygon’s co-founder Sandeep Nailwal experienced using BONK tokens.

DeLabs, the startup behind top Solana NFT collections DeGods and y00ts, has revealed that it received a $3 million grant to move y00ts to the Ethereum sidechain Polygon.

A look at the scalability, security and performance of two of the most popular smart contract blockchains, written by someone who has built on both and chose Solana for an upcoming wallet app.

Meme coins, which are popular cryptocurrencies often inspired by internet jokes, have seen their fair share of volatility over the years.

Developers behind Solana-based memecoin project Bonk Inu (BONK) burned over 5 trillion tokens, or 5% of the total supply, earlier on Friday, blockchain data shows. The move claimed to have effectively burned all tokens earmarked for developers of the project.

Meme coins and tokens are famously volatile, surging and falling based on things like social media sentiment—as seen in many past occasions with Elon Musk and Dogecoin. Now BONK, a Solana-based, dog-themed token, is experiencing that same kind of turbulent momentum, falling by over half today after ascending to an all-time high price overnight.

Solana NFT marketplace Magic Eden offered refunds to users affected by the posting of unverified NFT collections on its marketplace. 

The hot meme coin on Solana – BONK- is up over 2000% since its all-time low five days ago. The meme coin that helped boost Solana price last week, announced that it has burned five billion coins, maintaining its hype in the market.