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Amer Foster is the founder and lead writer of Crypto News SOL. He has followed Solana through multiple market cycles and writes from direct experience with the network, buying and holding SOL, staking, using DeFi protocols, and exploring the broader Solana ecosystem. His goal is simple: explain how Solana works in plain language, without the hype

How to buy Solana (SOL) in 2026: Step-by-step for beginners

July 16, 2026March 31, 2026 by Amer Foster
How to buy Solana (SOL)

SOL is trading around $93 as of March 2026 and sits among the top five cryptocurrencies by market cap. You …

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What is the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)? Explained for beginners

May 15, 2026March 27, 2026 by Amer Foster
Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)

The Solana Virtual Machine is the software layer that reads incoming transactions, figures out which programs to run and in …

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Solana Proof of History explained: How SOL achieves high speed

April 13, 2026March 22, 2026 by Amer Foster
Solana Proof of History

Solana can confirm a transaction in under a second and process thousands per second on its live network. The architectural …

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What are Solana transaction fees and why are they so cheap?

July 16, 2026March 18, 2026 by Amer Foster
Solana transaction fees

Every transaction on Solana costs a small amount of SOL. For most users, that cost is so small it barely …

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What are Solana smart contracts? Programs on the Solana blockchain explained

April 22, 2026March 16, 2026 by Amer Foster

If you have used a Solana wallet, swapped tokens on a decentralised exchange or minted an NFT, you have already …

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How does Solana work? Proof of History, validators and transactions explained

April 13, 2026March 13, 2026 by Amer Foster
How does Solana work

Solana processes around 2,000 to 4,000 transactions per second on its live network, with fees that rarely exceed a fraction …

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Who created Solana? Anatoly Yakovenko, the founding team, and the story behind the blockchain

July 3, 2026March 9, 2026 by Amer Foster
Who created Solana

Solana was created by Anatoly Yakovenko in November 2017, when he published a whitepaper introducing Proof of History, a consensus …

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What is SOL? Solana native token explained

June 3, 2026March 7, 2026 by Amer Foster
What is SOL

SOL is the native cryptocurrency of the Solana blockchain, also called the SOL coin or SOL token. It is a …

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What is Solana (SOL) and how does it work?

June 3, 2026March 2, 2026 by Amer Foster
What is Solana (SOL)

Solana is a Layer 1 blockchain built to handle a large volume of transactions quickly and cheaply. Where most blockchains …

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