Solana is a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain network using proof-of-stake consensus with smart contract functionality, co-founded by Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, with its first block created on 16 March 2020. Solana's Twitter Score is 1000 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing it at rank #1 (top 0.1%) out of 389,201 accounts tracked on this platform, including 36 accounts that score above 900. Solana has 3,982,706 followers as of July 2026 and has published 26,938 posts.
Solana is affiliated with Solana Labs, the San Francisco-based entity developing the Solana network and ecosystem products, and with the Solana Foundation, a non-profit based in Zug, Switzerland, focused on decentralization, adoption, and security. Solana is also affiliated with Solana Ventures. In June 2021, Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital led a $314.15 million private token sale of SOL, with participation from Alameda Research, CMS Holdings, Blockchange Ventures, and others. Solana is additionally backed by Multicoin Capital.
Solana's network experienced a 17-hour outage on 14 September 2021 after a surge of transactions caused a fork. On 3 August 2022, approximately 9,231 wallets were compromised and approximately $8 million was stolen, an incident the Solana Foundation attributed to Slope Finance wallet software. In November 2022, the FTX bankruptcy triggered a sell-off of SOL; Alameda Research, formerly a backer of Solana, held SOL as its second-largest position, and FTX held $982 million in SOL tokens at the time, contributing to an approximately 40% single-day decline in the SOL price. Solana Mobile, a subsidiary of Solana Labs, began selling the Solana Saga Android smartphone with preinstalled Solana dApps in April 2023. In June 2023, the SEC filed suit against Coinbase, alleging that SOL and other tokens qualified as unregistered securities under the Howey Test; the Solana Foundation has denied that SOL is a security. In September 2023, Visa announced support for the Solana blockchain to send USDC payments to merchants, alongside Worldpay and Nuvei. In January 2025, the launch of the $TRUMP memecoin on the Solana blockchain contributed to SOL reaching a new all-time high near $294. The Solana Foundation is the official Presenting Sponsor of the 2026 World Series of Poker, enabling the first-ever crypto tournament buy-ins in SOL, USDC, and USDT.
Solana's ecosystem includes Faraway and True Markets.
Solana is mentioned by 7,649 accounts, with 69,658 total mentions across the platform.
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Solana attracts followers from across the crypto and finance space. The accounts that follow Solana include 3,248 founders, 580 angel investors, 2,813 influencers and 361 VCs, among them Chris Dixon, Laura Shin, Toly, Ansem, Cobie and jesse.base.eth.