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Which 5 cryptocurrencies to stake in 2022? Find out the most used! 

Staking is a typical feature of the crypto industry that involves locking up some coins or tokens for a certain period of time to obtain a reward. The actual purpose of this process is to participate in the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism of a blockchain. In fact, staking helps achieve network consensus and validate all transactions in a decentralised and secure manner. Everyone can stake cryptocurrencies and there are indeed many ways to do it – you can read the guide here. But which cryptos can you lock up? Here are 5 cryptocurrencies to stake in 2022.

1. Ethereum (ETH)

Ethereum is the leading network in terms of staking volumes, and after the definitive switch to a Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism, ETH staking will become an increasingly important and widespread practice. As is often the case, ETH can be staked in various ways and with various aims. You can stake your ETH in four different ways: ‘solo home staking’, ‘staking as a service’, ‘pooled staking’ and ‘centralised exchange’.

1. Solo home staking

You use your ETH to open a validator node yourself. This is the type of staking that requires more effort, some technical skills and full control of your own funds. It requires a minimum lockable amount of 32 ETH and a constant internet connection.

2. Staking as a Service

You have 32 ETH available but do not want to manage a node on your own? You can delegate them to an existing validator node. Your ETH remain yours (and thus you earn staking rewards) but at the same time they are used by a node as a stake needed for the validation mechanism. This type of staking is not available directly within the Ethereum protocol, you need to use third party services.

3. Pooled Staking

You can delegate your staked ETH to validator nodes also through dapps’ staking pools or protocols (decentralised or centralised). The difference with staking pools is that you can also delegate small amounts of crypto less than 32 ETH.

4. Staking in centralised exchanges

You can stake ETH on centralised exchanges. This is one of the easiest ways to do it, and it’s suitable for inexperienced people as well. On Young Platform, you can try staking ETH through the Earning Wallet feature. 

2. Polkadot (DOT)

Polkadot’s consensus mechanism is a variant of the standard PoS and is called Nominated Proof-of-Stake. On Polkadot, users who own DOT (called nominators) delegate their stakes to the nodes they deem most deserving and earn rewards based on the performance of the validator they have chosen. Validators and nominators receive equal rewards that are not proportional to the size of the stake, as in other protocols. On Polkadot, you can unlock your stake whenever you want, but your cryptos will be unlocked and return to your full possession after 28 days. This ‘nomination’ mechanism incentivises users and validators to behave honestly: users who behave well are rewarded, those who behave badly are turned away and the network remains secure.

3. Solana (SOL)

Among the top 5 cryptocurrencies to stake in 2022 is SOL, the Solana coin. This blockchain also makes use of a Proof-of-Stake mechanism – there are currently 1,746 validators on Solana to ensure the functioning and security of the network. If you want to stake SOL directly on the network, you can check out the rewards on their website. Rewards are calculated and distributed once per epoch (a period of about 2 days) and issued to all validators and delegators in the first block of the next epoch.

4. Avalanche (AVAX) 

As time goes by, Avalanche is seemingly proving to be a viable alternative to Ethereum. Over the past year it has received a lot of funding from VCs and has not been afraid to use it to expand its ecosystem and improve its structure. The rewards for staking on Avalanche average 9.23% per year. In contrast to other platforms, staked tokens are never subject to the risk of slashing, i. e. the loss of the stake as a result of unfair actions against the network. You can check the total amount of AVAX in staking, rewards, validators and delegators.

5. Cardano (ADA)

Cardano has a constantly growing ecosystem and its native dapps are among the most innovative around. The network works thanks to ADA staking, through validator nodes and delegating users. Cardano’s Ouroboros protocol chooses a validator based on the size of the stake it holds. Therefore, nodes with more staked ADA will have more chances to add a new block to Cardano and obtain the rewards. You can work out your staking rewards. Remember, though, that the rewards depend on many factors such as the validators performance, the number of validated blocks and, in general, possible changes in the network. 

The most popular cryptos for staking in 2022

Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, Avalanche and Polkadot are therefore the most widely used cryptocurrencies for staking in 2022. Specifically, Ethereum has a staking marketcap (i.e. the dollar value of all its staked tokens) of 22 billion USD, Cardano and Solana of 15 billion, Avalanche of 6 billion and Polkadot of 5 billion. This tells us about how widely these blockchains are used, but the most interesting data is the estimated percentage of rewards that can be received by staking directly on the relevant blockchain (the data is variable – these percentages are relevant to the time the article was written). Among these 5 cryptos, the highest percentage is achieved by Polkadot (13.98%), then Avalanche (8.8%), Cardano (4.98%), Solana (4.73%) and Ethereum (4.14%).  The list of the top 5 cryptocurrencies for staking in 2022 ends here, now find out about all the relevant opportunities on Young Platform!

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What are DOT and KSM used for? The second day of Polkadot Decoded focusses on Polkadot use cases in everyday life

The second and final day of the Dotsama ecosystem conference took place on 30 June. While the first day of Polkadot Decoded dealt with DeFi, gaming and Metaverse, the most talked about topics on the second day were the sustainability and usability of Web3. Let’s take a look at the most interesting speeches that attempted to answer the question: what is the network of DOT and KSM actually for?

Fighting climate change with Polkadot

One of the strands of the second day of Polkadot Decoded was sustainability. In particular, two speeches described the most interesting projects in the green efforts of the Dotsama ecosystem. Climate change is one of the hottest topics of these years and blockchain could be an important tool to combat it. Miroslav Polzer, speaker of the NFT Digital Art 4 Climate project, spoke about the potential of ‘digital innovation’ for a real and measurable impact on climate problems. This digital art project is an initiative to transform art into digital assets freely exchangeable on blockchain, directing the proceeds towards the sustainability goals identified by the United Nations. Digital Art 4 Climate chose to use NFT technology because blockchain has all the credentials to “improve inefficient supply chains, and give a new idea of communication to communities through decentralised technology”. 

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Two other natives of this ecosystem expressed their mission to make Polkadot a leader in sustainable innovation. Bitgreen and Sequester together put forward the proposal to convert the micro-fees of parachains into carbon credits. Sequester’s Brendan Edelson explained that parachains are fee-optional. In a nutshell, the relay chain provides Polkadot parachains with its validators for at least 2 years, so theoretically to validate parachain transactions there is no need to pay fees. In reality, there are micro-fees that the parachains have implemented for security reasons. However, these small fees are not a cost to be covered, Sequester’s proposal is to use them to buy carbon credits through Bitgreen’s marketplace.

We're delighted to announce our partnership with @SequesterChain to pioneer climate-positive action for the @Polkadot & @kusamanetwork ecosystems.

TL;DR: we're enabling parachains to easily swap transaction fees for carbon credits 🪙➡️🌳

Learn more here: https://t.co/QdzQnfZNUV pic.twitter.com/VQaIczDyIp

— Bitgreen (@Bitgreen_) June 30, 2022

Adam Carver of Bitgreen cited Polygon as a virtuous example of combating emissions, even though Polkadot already has an advantage in this mission because its energy footprint is minimal, the intention is to make the ecosystem not only neutral but also positive, taking concrete action and becoming part of the solution to the environmental problem. In this project, Sequester will calculate micro fees, exchange them into carbon credits, and issue a certification in the form of NFTs.

The spread of the Web3 depends on its value in everyday life

What is the use of the DOT and KSM ecosystem? Another use case of the network concerns the facilitation of access to Web3, a decentralised reality, without the control of large technology industries. However, Web2 still has one major advantage over the decentralised web: usability. Although Web3 has many plus points, it is still difficult to use and it is reserved for a small niche of experts. However, according to Agyle, the anonymously-identified CEO of the Talisman Wallet Project, the Web3’s lack of usability is only a small part of its deployment problems. One of the main issues with Web3 is that many projects have no real use in real life. Indeed, a favourite argument of blockchain detractors is that ‘it is a technology that solves a problem that does not exist’.

2/ With Talisman’s new update, you can now connect to any dapp in these networks that uses metamask – except now you can move freely between dapps using Talisman without having to switch networks. pic.twitter.com/cfGKRgpfK1

— Talisman (@wearetalisman) June 23, 2022

At Polkadot Decoded, Agyle explained that the user experience certainly needs to improve but the real challenge is to give Web3 value and usefulness in everyday life. Because if a tool is really useful, people will also make that extra effort to learn how to use it. If a service is both useless and difficult to understand, it is doomed to fail. What is Talisman’s contribution in terms of usefulness? Talisman aims to be a ‘universal login’ for Dotsama’s multichain system (which is called Paraverse). On Talisman you can manage all the passwords, keys, logins of your apps on the DOT and KSM network.

Web3 Google? On Polkadot!

A simple definition of Web3 is ‘an internet of blockchains’. If we think of everything we do on the internet, searching for information is one of the major activities. The blockchain, however, does not particularly lend itself to being ‘queried’: it records all the data on the Web3, but users would have to go through it block by block to find a specific piece of information. To overcome this problem, the blockchain is integrated with knowledge graphs, which organise all data (on chain and off chain) and make them available for consultation, guaranteeing their reliability. For example, knowledge graphs can be asked about NFTs or smart contracts. OriginTrail, from August on Polkadot, deals precisely with this combination of collecting information on blockchain and organising it with knowledge graphs.

Using the same tech #Google used to organize information & #blockchain tech powering #Bitcoin, OriginTrail is organizing humanity’s most important #web3 assets, making them
🔍discoverable,
✅verifiable &
🪙valuable.

Let’s bring your assets to Web3!

👉https://t.co/dIygFvwSPC pic.twitter.com/OyCVS9voZW

— OriginTrail (@origin_trail) May 2, 2022

The Web3 content landscape now looks like an iceberg, there is little afloat but in the future there will be more and more data and information to record. In this respect, a project must prepare itself to answer users’ questions. How does OriginTrail work? It has a layer 1 token composed of multiple blockchains (Ethereum, Gnosis, Polygon and soon Polkadot), on which are built layer 2 tokens, composed of knowledge graphs. On this latter structure, it will then be possible to build dapps, which exploit the features of both layers. One of the current applications of OriginTrail is in the field of pharmaceutical supply chains that follow the production and distribution of drugs in order to combat theft.

The PolkaOscars, the final event of Polkadot Decoded

Icing on the cake? At the end of the second day of Polkadot Decoded, a very special event took place: the Polkaoscars! During the ceremony held in Berlin, awards were presented to the content creators who contributed to raising awareness of Polkadot and Kusama’s vision and mission. The prize, a cute figurine, was created in the Metaverse and printed with a 3D printer.

Content creators, ambassadors and community leaders: active members on all social networks to build a solid community that shares the same vision as Polkadot and Kusama. Among the ambassadors is Irina Karagyaur, one of the minds behind the Digital Art 4 Climate project, who encouraged everyone to follow in their footsteps. “We need all of you to grow the ecosystem,” she said on stage.

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From the first day of Polkadot Decoded, the annual conference dedicated to Gavin Wood’s network, the latest news from the parachains for Web3!

The third edition of Polkadot Decoded is taking place these days (29-30 June 2022) in 4 locations around the world: Berlin, Buenos Aires, Hangzhou and New York. The event is dedicated to the presentation and discovery of the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems with talks by all those who are building on this network. The talks and topics were voted on by the community, in the full spirit of decentralisation! During the first day, some of the Polkadot and Kusama parachains (the Dotsama ecosystem, to use the affectionate name invented by the community) took the stage to address a topic of common interest: the decentralisation of the Internet. This is what happened at Polkadot Decoded, the Web3 event!

How does Polkadot work?

Before we get into Polkadot Decoded and go over what happened during the Web3 event, let’s review how Polkadot works and how its network is structured. Polkadot, considered one of the most interoperable blockchains in the crypto landscape, is a network composed of a collection of different blockchains. Polkadot’s aim is to make blockchain technology scalable by providing a large set of chains, each of them specific to an application. Polkadot’s network is highly scalable precisely because its chains finalise transactions simultaneously and in parallel. There are two types of blockchain: relay chains and parachains. The former is the heart of Polkadot, providing security and coordinating the entire network structure. Parachains, on the other hand, are the chains with specific applications, connected to the relay chain and customisable. In this system, DOT, Polkadot’s native cryptocurrency, serves to pay fees, participate in governance and connect the parachains to the relay chain according to the bonding mechanism. To become a Polkadot parachain, the various projects participate in auctions. Polkadot’s expansion and development increasingly depends on the wealth and innovation of its parachains. Kusama, on the other hand, is Polkadot’s so-called canary network, i.e. a testing and experimentation chain.

Acala, Polkadot’s defi hub

Winner of the first Polkadot parachain auction, Acala has been online since 18 December 2021. Since its conception, Acala’s network has been conceived as a ‘dapp store of decentralised finance’, and after a few months of operation, its projects maintain this specialisation. Acala is a parachain designed for DeFi, a stablecoin, dapp and liquid staking services have been developed on it. Acala USD (aUSD) is Polkadot’s native stablecoin pegged to the dollar. It is decentralised and backed by cryptocurrencies such as DOT and KSM. aUSD is Acala’s flagship product and aims to become the stablecoin of choice for DeFi in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem. Dan Reecer, from the Acala team, explained during his speech at Polkadot Decoded how, in the future, Acala’s role will be the gateway to Web3 and DeFi for the masses and companies. To do this, dapp on Acala will have to respond to the needs and problems of the off-chain world. The network itself will offer decentralised and hybrid services for companies and institutions that want to evolve from Web2. Thus, services designed to meet KYC and AML needs as well. Among the interesting and developing projects mentioned by Reecer are Pike, Alluvial and Project Venkman.

We're thrilled to introduce our collaboration with the Acala Foundation, the organization driving @AcalaNetwork's decentralized finance network on @Polkadot, to offer a compliant, enterprise-grade DOT liquid staking product for institutions ✨https://t.co/e0urnQAEHt

— Alluvial (@alluvialfinance) June 29, 2022

Pike is a lending, yield farming and financial services platform for Polkadot-Kusama tokens. On the other hand, Alluvial provides liquid staking services for companies and institutions, while Project Venkman will enable loyalty programmes on blockchain, converting points into ERC-20 tokens. Project Venkman recently collaborated with actor Bill Murray to produce 1,000 collectible NFTs based on his career.

Astar: shaking up the Web3

On the main stage of Polkadot Decoded in Berlin, Hoon Kim, CTO of Astar, another of the parachains that won the first auction together with Acala, also spoke. Kim started his speech with the assumption that the entire Web3 today is stagnant and not growing for at least 6 reasons:

1. tribalism whereby each team believes that its blockchain will be the definitive one, capable of rendering the others obsolete;
2. People stay away from blockchain technologies because they are perceived as too difficult or incomprehensible;
3. Everyone works on the same things, there are no original, fresh ideas;
4. Web3 projects are based on often ineffective business models, such as token sales and ICOs, which, according to Kim, are only functional in the launch phase of a project but do not guarantee a constant incentive;
5. Little interoperability and communication;
6. Lack of safety standards.

Astar seeks to bring solutions to these Web3 difficulties, specifically in the aspects of interoperability and how to incentivise blockchain projects. In this regard, Astar offers dapp staking in which users can block their tokens on their favourite decentralised applications and earn tokens for developers. The mechanism is similar to the staking of validators in the Nominated Proof-of-Stake. In this way, it is the people who evaluate the best projects, encouraging the growth of useful dapps. According to Kim, usefulness is still not considered a parameter for measuring success. There are too many projects on the Web3 that are photocopies of something that already exists and do not fulfil a real need. With dapp staking, the most appreciated projects can be financially rewarded and continue their work supported by the community.

We are thrilled to announce the Astar Network #Build2Earn dApp staking program🚨 https://t.co/wQvA86cOYu

— Astar Network – Innovation Hub on Polkadot (@AstarNetwork) April 11, 2022

Web3 and gaming on Ajuna Network

Ajuna is a decentralised gaming platform developed on Polkadot and Kusama. As explained by Nicholas Douzinas, CBO and Co-Founder, Ajuna’s focus is on actively listening to players. If you want to build video games on the Web3, you cannot overlook the potential of the community, which is not made up of passive consumers (as is the case in most traditional video games) but of co-creators. Ajuna, by listening to the voice of users, realised that engagement is provided by a curated user experience and gameplay. The flagship game coming soon to Ajuna is Dotmog, set in the universe of the Mogwais, an ancient alien species.

"Get over here @kusamanetwork!" – Scorpion, Mogwai Kombat pic.twitter.com/jmDhp1M6FT

— BattleMogs (@BattleMogs) May 10, 2022

Momentum: a practical Metaverse for workers

With its founder Chrisel Sieling, Polkadot Decoded was also presented with Momentum, a Metaverse on Dotsama active from the 24th of May 2022. For Sieling, the Metaverse must have a purpose and serve a purpose: ‘the metaverse is bullshit if you are not solving a problem’. The goal of Momentum is to create a digital space in which group work can be done in a simple and intuitive way.

Tune in to @PolkadotDecoded to hear @MomentumXYZ's @christelsieling with a deep dive into the Kusamaverse.

Explore a new way to navigate, connect, and contribute to the ecosystem, and share your input in an interactive session on all things Kusamaverse:https://t.co/i1UtRVFN6W

— kusama (@kusamanetwork) June 29, 2022

What ‘gaming’ metaverses such as Decentraland or The Sandbox lack is the ability to work together remotely. Momentum offers office features such as video calling, chat and screen sharing. Sieling explained that metaverses exploded along with and after the Covid-19 pandemic, in response to the need to meet and collaborate in 3D from home, but not all of them actually met this second need. Momentum is perfect, however, for hosting hackathons and training programmes.

Polkadot Decoded continues tomorrow, stay tuned to the Young Platform blog for updates and news from Polkadot and Kusama’s Web3 event!

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Tether, the company behind USDT, has decided to create a new stablecoin pegged to the pound sterling, in anticipation of a boom in the UK crypto market

Although USDT is the most widely used stablecoin in the crypto ecosystem, its market cap has declined since the shake-up caused by the collapse of Terra (LUNA). The market cap of USDT is 66 billion, but just behind it is USDC, with 55 billion and an upward parabolic trend. The solution of Paolo Ardoino, CTO of Tether? Expand into other markets! The new frontier for Tether is the UK, and GBPT is the new stablecoin pegged to the pound sterling and based on Ethereum. Will gbp on blockchain be an antidote against the bearish market?

A new stablecoin pegged to the pounds sterling for the UK market

GBPT is a stablecoin pegged to the pound sterling that will be released in early July by Tether. In addition to the primary stablecoin USDT, Tether already has other cryptocurrencies pegged to fiat currencies. What are they pegged to? The Euro, Chinese yuan and Mexican peso. However, these cryptos in total have a very low market capitalisation, under $1 billion. Although these ‘minor’ stablecoins do not reach USDT levels, Tether has nevertheless decided to release the new GBPT stablecoin.

#Tether To Launch GBP₮
Tether Tokens Pegged to the British Pound Sterling 🇬🇧

Read the full press release ⬇️https://t.co/vN6RngE28S pic.twitter.com/t4Yf8hrUZ2

— Tether (@Tether_to) June 22, 2022

The motivation? According to Paolo Ardoino, the CTO of Tether, the UK will be the next frontier of the crypto market. The pound is one of the most widely used fiat currencies in the world and the UK is a world economic power. What’s more, the UK parliament has announced that it is working on a series of laws and regulations that could foster the development of crypto technologies. “Tether is ready to work hand-in-hand with UK lawmakers towards this goal, and we are excited to continue the expansion of Tether-signed stablecoins,” Ardoino announced.

The Bank of England is hiring full stack developers for Central Bank Digital Currency project#fintech #blockchain #CBDC pic.twitter.com/hcrgcNIE8R

— Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth (@cgledhill) March 11, 2022

According to Tether, the launch of a stablecoin pegged to the pound will make the crypto market better, i.e. more dynamic, facilitating transactions not only in the UK but worldwide. The Bank of England is looking into the possibility of creating a CBDC of the pound, but some critics have blamed the bank’s slowness. Tether fits right into this market gap with its GBPT.

Will stablecoin pegged to the sterling help Tether?

The idea of a stablecoin pegged to sterling was born during a bearish market phase, with the intention of reviving the use of Tether’s signature stablecoin ecosystem. USDT reached a record market cap on the 11th of May, during the collapse of Terra (LUNA), surpassing $84 billion in capitalisation. On 28 June, after just under two months, USDT’s market cap stands at USD 66 billion. A drop of about 20%!

The causes of this decline are many. Besides the arrival of the bearish market, the very transparency of Tether has been called into question. According to some critics, in fact, the company’s reserves would not guarantee a 1:1 ratio with the USDTs currently circulating on the blockchain. Tether was quick to deny the allegations, releasing the numerous third-party audits confirming its reserves, but the rumours were enough to call into question the stablecoin’s primacy. “These unfounded rumours contribute to panic in the market, probably to take advantage of an already stressed market,” responded a Tether spokesperson, warning those holding USDT on their wallet.

1/
I have been open about the attempts from some hedge funds that were trying to cause further panic on the market after TERRA/LUNA collapse.
It really seemed from the beginning a coordinated attack, with a new wave of FUD, troll armies, clowns etc. https://t.co/hhcsgHV1Ow

— Paolo Ardoino (@paoloardoino) June 27, 2022

Picking up the slack from USDT is first and foremost USDC, Circle’s stablecoin. Over the past month, USDC has increased its market cap by 4%. At the same time, a new algorithmic stablecoin, Tron’s USDD, has emerged, which has stolen percentage points from USDT by relying on those who still have faith in algorithmic stablecoins despite the Terra disaster.

Will the move to create a stablecoin pegged to sterling prove successful? According to Tether, the GBPT stablecoin will be released at the beginning of July on Ethereum, but it will take a few months to see if the stablecoin will prove equal to USDT or if GBPT will end up being used by a small niche.

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Blockchain in the palm of your hand? Solana announces the development of a flagship Android smartphone integrated with crypto

Want to always have blockchain and crypto at your fingertips? Solana, in collaboration with OSOM, has announced a brand new Android smartphone with cutting-edge technical features, fully integrated with the crypto world. The mobile phone, called the Solana Saga, is designed to make access to Web3 simple and straightforward. The Solana Saga is a future-proof device, find out what the Solana smartphone, the Android mobile phone designed for crypto and Web3 enthusiasts, is all about!

An Android smartphone for crypto and Web3: this is what Solana Saga is and how it works

Did you buy a smartphone with 5G thinking it was state-of-the-art? Technology has just churned out something even more futuristic! In collaboration with Osom, Solana has announced Saga, a crypto- and Web3-proof Android smartphone integrated with blockchain and compatible with all decentralised applications. The manufacturing company, Osom, is a start-up created by some employees of the now defunct company Essential, which designed smartphones dedicated to privacy and security. Now they have decided to push the boundaries: here is Solana Saga!

The technical features of the Solana Saga are respectable and are no match for other top-of-the-range devices. The 6.67-inch OLED screen has a refresh rate of 120Hz, ensuring no blurring even in the most frantic videos. It also has 512 GB of memory, and 12 GB of RAM to run even the heaviest dApps. Highlights are the 50 MP main camera and the excellent Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen1 processor, which is the latest addition to the market and guarantees user privacy. In fact, thanks to the capabilities of this processor, Solana Saga is able to keep private keys and seed phrases safe, but at the same time make them interact with decentralised applications should the need arise. Solana works to ensure that your privacy is not compromised!

Solana also put another important building block on the theme of increasing the accessibility and usability of its network in March 2022, with the partnership between Dialect (Web3 messaging protocol) and Solana Mobile. The goal of the collaboration? To launch a Whatsapp-style, but decentralised, open source messaging application for the Solana Saga Android smartphone.

Introducing Saga pic.twitter.com/owICkHd7dh

— Solana Mobile (@solanamobile) June 26, 2022

All this technological power will be used to make decentralised applications and the Web3 work stably and smoothly. Solana Saga  will be integrated with the Solana blockchain and all other realities of the new Internet, thanks also to the new open-source marketplace that will be installed on the device. Solana Mobile Stack replaces the Play Store (installed by default on Android smartphones), allowing developers to develop their own decentralised applications and publish them on the open-source marketplace. “The world needs hardware companies that focus on supporting Web3,” reported Jason Keats, CEO and founder of Osom. “Building the ecosystem of the future without being tied to the past is really exciting.”

Why buy a Web3 and crypto-proof smartphone? Solana’s founders answer

Is Solana’s smartphone, an Android phone integrated with crypto and Web3 really necessary? According to the founders of Solana, definitely yes! Indeed, they hope to be pioneers and lay the foundations for a revolution that is now imminent. “Almost 7 billion people use smartphones worldwide and more than 100 million of these people own digital assets, and these numbers will continue to grow,” said Anatoly Yakovenko, one of the founders of Solana, confidently. ‘Solana Saga wants to create a standard for all hardware devices that interface with Web3’. Yakovenko’s words are clear: the question to ask is not whether a smartphone integrated with blockchain is useful, but when we will all get to have one in our pockets!

“We chose the name Saga because we believe the crypto story is still in its infancy,” said Raj Gokal, co-founder of Solana. “This smartphone is a step forward in history, and we believe it is critical to improving the understanding and adoption of this new technology,” he continued. Thanks to Saga, understanding and using the blockchain will be as easy and intuitive as downloading an app from the Play Store or making a payment using your smartphone’s NFC.

You heard the man.

Pre-order your Saga with Solana Mobile Stack now: https://t.co/qAgKUPNc2R pic.twitter.com/HEDEs7DzwB

— Solana Mobile (@solanamobile) June 26, 2022

Privacy and technological innovation: Solana Saga is an Android smartphone projected into the future and integrated with Web3 and crypto. It could be the first in a long line of next-generation mobile phones. Imagine transferring cryptocurrencies, paying for pizza and shopping online all from the same interface and in a completely decentralised manner. Does the future of blockchain pass through smartphones? We will find out in March 2023, when Solana Saga finally hits the market!

Solana Saga pre-sale 

It is already possible to pre-order the Solana smartphone. To do so, simply log on to this site, enter your details and pay a deposit of 10 percent of the final price of the smartphone, exactly $100. Solana has announced that pre-ordering the device will provide additional benefits, including limited edition NFTs, merchandising and other benefits that are as yet undisclosed. 

Last call! Don't miss the window to mint this limited edition Saga Pass! Mint open for Saga phone pre-orders and closes at 11:59pm PT, 10/31 (aka in 15 hours)

MInt Saga Pass: https://t.co/8DIdSHNrPq
Pre-order Saga: https://t.co/qAgKUQ4MUp

I mean just how DOPE is this NFT? pic.twitter.com/XBxc7eyrIV

— Solana Mobile (@solanamobile) October 31, 2022

Users interested in obtaining one of the first examples of Solana’s Android smartphone were able to purchase an NFT called the ‘Saga Pass’, which grants them the right to be the first to receive the Saga, as well as the right to airdrop and participate in exclusive events. These NFTs went on sale on 31 October 2022. 

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