Solana
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Solana is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between August 16, 2022 and February 29, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Hedgehog Markets is a crypto betting site using USDC and Solana”; “you need to have a Solana wallet”; “some kind of trading in Solana (a cryptocurrency)“. It most often appears alongside AI, China, Hanania.
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- Category: Brands
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: August 16, 2022
- Last seen: February 29, 2024
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Hedgehog Markets is a crypto betting site using USDC and Solana. Most of its markets are about sports. I’m featuring them here because they are, as far as I know, the first group to do something I’ve been waiting for a long time - allow users to create real-money prediction markets.
Inline links: Hedgehog Markets
What’s the catch? Offer not open to US citizens - a vexing, problematic negation. And you need to have a Solana wallet, own crypto, and know how to use it. And there’s not a lot of volume so far. But otherwise, no catch. This is just a really good new thing. Think of it as Manifold Markets, but with real money (and 10x harder to use).
4: A DAO (a type of crypto organization) claims to be implementing futarchy. It’s less clear what they’re implementing futarchy to do, but I think it’s some kind of trading in Solana (a cryptocurrency).
Inline links: claims to be implementing futarchy
52: According to NYT, during his time in prison Sam Bankman-Fried has tried to convince the guards to buy the Solana cryptocurrency. In fairness to him, it’s gone up in value about 10x since his arrest. That means there’s some prison guard who got a hot tip from SBF to put his net worth in Solana, laughed because of course you don’t take investing advice from SBF, and then had to watch while as it dectupled in price over the next year.