How Solana Defied the Odds to Become Crypto’s Dark Horse

Forget the ’Ethereum killer’ narrative—Solana’s real edge wasn’t hype, but ruthless efficiency. Here’s how it happened.

The speed play: While rivals drowned in gas fees, Solana’s 65k TPS throughput turned DeFi into a frictionless playground. Validators hated it. Traders loved it.

VCs wrote checks, builders shipped, and suddenly ’SOL breaks $200’ wasn’t a meme—it was your portfolio’s best performer. (Meanwhile, Bitcoin maxis muttered about ’centralization’ between sips of hopium.)

Now the real test begins: Can it stay lean when institutional money wants a seat at the table? The blockchain that ate Wall Street’s lunch might just become its new favorite toy.

$178 and its Pumpfun story. Now, we ask which altcoin is attempting to follow a similar journey and create its own narrative?

Hippo Coin’s Surge

On the sui network, a new platform named Splash has been launched, akin to Solana’s Pumpfun. Backed by the Hippo Token team, this platform provides access to newly created tokens on the SUI network. Without needing programming knowledge, users can launch their tokens in a manner similar to processes on alternative platforms.

The fee for creating a token on Splash is 1 SUI, with a trading commission of 1% and a bonding curve set at 10,000 SUI. A recent announcement revealed that half of Splash’s revenues WOULD be allocated for the buyback and burning of Hippo tokens.

Following the announcement, Hippo prices saw a double-digit increase. If Splash can generate sufficient volume, we might see both SUI and Hippo Token prices rise further, driven by periodic hype.

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