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What Is Solana's Proof of History? Why It Makes the Network So Fast
Proof of History is the innovation behind Solana's 50,000 TPS. Learn how it works, why it matters for traders, and what it means for the tokens you buy.
Chawki Malek
Liquidity Locks Explained: Why They Matter and When They Don't
"Liquidity is locked" has become one of the most frequently cited trust signals in the Solana token community. You'll see it in Telegram groups, whitepaper summaries, and project announcements as a near-universal marker of legitimacy. Teams know buyers want to see it. So teams provide it. The proble
Chawki Malek
What Is the Crypto Fear & Greed Index and How Does Hannisol Calculate It for Solana?
In 1986, legendary investor Warren Buffett articulated what has become one of the most quoted principles in investing: "Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful." The observation captures a persistent pattern in market behavior — that collective emotion systematically dr
Hannisol Team
What Is Mint Authority on Solana and Why It's a Red Flag
When you buy a Solana token, you're acquiring a share of a defined supply. Or at least, that's what you assume. In reality, depending on how that token was configured at launch, the creator may hold a permission that lets them generate millions — or billions — of new tokens at any moment, without wa
Hannisol Team
Solana Token Safety Checklist: 20 Questions to Ask Before Every Buy
The difference between traders who consistently lose money to Solana token scams and those who don't is rarely intelligence, experience, or information access. It's process. Scam tokens succeed not because buyers can't detect them — the signals are often visible with basic due diligence — but becaus
Chawki Malek
The Complete Guide to Solana Token Holder Analysis
If you could read only one data source about a Solana token before deciding whether to buy, it should be its holder distribution. The full picture of who owns a token — how many wallets, in what concentrations, with what funding origins, growing at what rate — reveals more about the structural risk
Hannisol Team
Serial Ruggers: How to Identify Wallets Behind Multiple Failed Solana Projects
One of the most underappreciated risks in the Solana ecosystem is not the first-time scammer — it's the professional one. Serial ruggers are operators who have launched multiple scam token projects, drained liquidity each time, and repeated the process under new identities, new token names, and new
Hannisol Team
What Is Solana's Token-2022 Standard? New Features and New Risks
Solana's original SPL Token standard, deployed in 2020, was a foundational but deliberately minimal design: create tokens, transfer them, optionally enable mint and freeze authority. It served the ecosystem well but lacked features that more sophisticated token designs required. The Token-2022 progr
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Wash Trading on Solana DEXs: How Fake Volume Is Created and Detected
Wash trading — buying and selling the same asset between related accounts to generate artificial trading volume — has existed in financial markets for over a century. On regulated exchanges, it is illegal and actively prosecuted. On Solana's permissionless DEXs, it is unregulated, extremely inexpens
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Tax Implications of Solana Token Trading: What You Need to Know
Every profitable trade you make on a Solana DEX is a taxable event in most jurisdictions — and crucially, this includes swapping one token for another, not just converting back to fiat currency. Many active Solana traders operate under the misconception that tax liability only arises when they "cash
Chawki Malek
How Telegram and Discord Are Used to Manipulate Solana Token Buyers
Telegram groups and Discord servers are how Solana token communities are built, communicated with, and leveraged. For legitimate projects, these channels are genuine spaces for community formation, development updates, and user support. For scam projects, they are the primary instruments of psycholo
Hannisol Team
What Is a Soft Rug? Understanding Slow Abandonment of Solana Projects
Everyone in the Solana ecosystem knows what a hard rug looks like: liquidity drains to zero overnight, the Telegram and Discord channels vanish, exit scam completed. The damage is instantaneous and obvious. What's much harder to recognize — and statistically far more common — is the soft rug. A soft
Hannisol Team