What is Solana ? Solana is a decentralized protocol for building dApps with a reported throughput of 65,000 transactions per second . thanks to it's distributed computing system unlike most Protocols that run with proof of stake (or) proof of work mechanism , Solana uses proof of history. a new cryptographic mechanism that amplifies scalability while maintaining security History and foundation of Solana Solana was founded in 2017 by Anatoly yakovenko, a former engineer at multinational Qualcomm. He published the Solana whitepaper in the same year with the ides of creating a distributed system with a new algorithm that could build on and improve the predominantly used proof of stake and proof of work blockchains The rise of NFTs on Solana Solana has been booming popularity in 2021, primarily becuase of the massive increase in it's price. at the time of this writing in October 2021, the cryptocurrency is around 8000% in terms of YTD gains . A lot of it came thanks to the ex