PeckShield monitoring shows that FTX address has transferred 250,000 SOL tokens (worth about $13.6 million) to Wintermute. Alameda address has transferred about 8 million MATIC tokens to CEX including OKX and Coinbase.

Jito, a decentralized finance platform on Solana, has introduced its new governance token, JTO, as part of its efforts to empower its user base with decision-making capabilities. The platform will distribute 100 million JTO tokens to JitoSOL holders, Solana validators who are part of the Jito Solana MEV clients, and users of Jito's MEV services. The Jito Foundation will oversee the airdrop to ensure a fair and transparent distribution to its community. This move aligns with the growing trend of decentralized platforms using governance tokens for community-driven development. Other Solana protocols, such as Pyth and JUP, have also conducted airdrops recently, highlighting the dynamic nature of the DeFi space on the Solana blockchain.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, 336,999 SOL (approximately $19,100,615) were transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase.

According to official sources, Cosmos ecosystem DeFi public chain Kujira has integrated cross-chain protocol Wormhole, which supports bridging external assets to Kujira. The first supported asset is SOL. Kujira states that the easiest way for users to transfer SOL to the Kujira network is to directly deposit it using Sonar Wallet. Users can also use Portal Bridge for bridging.

According to PaiShield monitoring, FTX's token address transferred 4410 SOL worth $252,000, while still staking 5.57 million SOL.

Phase Labs announced on X platform that its custom governance protocol, Align, has received funding from the Solana Foundation.

According to PeckShield's monitoring, SOL whale (7nsWpv...fhoFL) transferred about 1.38 million SOL (approximately $74.2 million) in the past 12 hours, as reported by Jinse Finance.

Whale Alert monitoring shows that at around 7:39 am Beijing time today, 199,999 SOL (worth about $10,487,432) was transferred from an unknown wallet to Binance.

According to official announcement, Binance Leveraged Tokens will remove the SOL/BUSD full position and isolated position trading pairs on November 30, 2023 at 14:00 (GMT+8).

According to PeckShield monitoring, the SOL whale 7nsWpv transferred 187,000 SOL to Binance, and still holds 2.93 million SOL.

On November 21st, crypto wallet Phantom released a new cross-chain exchange that allows users to directly bridge tokens between Ethereum and Solana within Phantom. Users can choose any EVM token and bridge it to Solana while converting it to USDC. If SOL is needed to pay transaction fees, Refuel can be used to cross-chain and exchange a portion of the tokens for SOL so that users can immediately pay transaction fees after the cross-chain transfer.

21co analyst Tom Wan revealed some latest data about Backpack Exchange on X platform: total assets are $27.3 million, including 437,000 SOL and 1.21 million USDC; currently, there are also 1.1 million PYTH on the platform.

According to Tom Wan, an analyst at 21co, on November 19th, the SOL balance on Backpack Exchange plummeted and the exchange sent 235,000 SOL to an address starting with BbHG9G, which may be a cold wallet.

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According to Lookonchain monitoring, the whale "H4yiPh" cancelled the pledge of 2.16 million SOL (128 million US dollars) and transferred 1.3 million SOL (77 million US dollars). Among them, 312,868 SOL (18.56 million US dollars) was deposited into Binance and Kraken. The whale still holds 863,000 SOL (51.5 million US dollars) in its wallet, and its pledge amount is 9.86 million SOL (584 million US dollars).

On November 16th, Lookonchain monitoring reported that a whale had unstaked 505,034 SOL tokens (worth approximately $31.7 million) and transferred most of them to Binance and Kraken. The whale still has 2.9 million SOL tokens staked, worth approximately $184 million.

Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest, described Solana as a major infrastructure participant in the broader blockchain ecosystem, and added that it has been doing "very well" under recent market conditions. Cathie Wood said that ETH is faster and cheaper than BTC, which is why we get ETH. Solana is faster and more cost-effective than ETH.

Blockchain security firm Certik has discovered a critical vulnerability in Solana's Saga Phone, which endangers digital assets stored on the device, including sensitive cryptocurrency private keys. The vulnerability arises from the phone's security relying solely on its operating system, and the 'bootloader unlock' feature becomes a gateway for attackers to install custom firmware embedded with a root backdoor. More than 2,100 devices are potentially at risk, and the Solana Foundation has not publicly responded to these findings. This revelation significantly affects Solana's ambition of creating a crypto-centric smartphone, and the situation demands immediate attention to rectify the current vulnerability and reassess the overall security framework of the device.

According to OKX market data on November 15th, SOL rose above $60 again and is now priced at $60.71, with a 24-hour increase of 16%.

According to Coingecko data, the current market value of Solana has reached about 24.17 billion US dollars, surpassing USDC, and currently ranks sixth in the cryptocurrency market value rankings, second only to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, BNB and XRP. At the time of writing this article, SOL was temporarily reported at 57.57 US dollars, with a 30-day increase of 163.1%.