When was Solana Blockchain created?

The project supports several decentralized financial platforms (DeFi), as well as non-fungible token (NFT) markets. The Solana blockchain was implemented during the coin offering boom of 2017 . Its design seeks to solve the blockchain trilemma, a concept proposed by Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin.

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What is a unit of Solana?

SOL is the native token of Solana that is required to be passed through Solana nodes in the cluster to run a smart contract program on the blockchain or validate the output. The smallest unit of Solana is called a Lamport named after a famous technical influence, Leslie Lamport. A Lamport equals 0.000000001 SOL.

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