This Meme Coin Saved Solana
After Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX collapsed in 2022, the future of Solana looked bleak. But from the fraud-fuelled ashes came a meme coin that saved the network. Bonk was created and airdropped to a ton of Solana developers...
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