The market leader for Solana-based liquid staking derivatives, Marinade Finance is dangling its governance token MNDE as a carrot to kickstart a crypto economy for its iteration of staked SOL. On Tuesday, Marinade said it will hand out 160 million MNDE tokens to protocols and validators in exchange for them depositing up to 40 million SOL tokens into Marinade’s liquid staking solution, which at $144 million in total value locked (TVL) is Solana’s biggest DeFi protocol. If all goes to plan, this “Open Door” could boost Marinade’s TVL sevenfold, Marinade developers told CoinDesk. They want to dr

SNEAK PEEKSolana reached the second position in the NFT world.Dune Analytics mentioned that transaction volume has decreased.The NFT market has been the growth of blue-chip NFTs within Solana’s ecosystem.Solana has performed well in the NFT market since last month. In terms of NFT volume, Solana did better than most cryptocurrencies, according to statistics compiled by Delphi Digital, and it took second place.The leadership of Solana may be seriously threatened by the decline in transaction volume and the migration of sizable NFT collections to other chains.  Top chains by NFT volume (30 days)