Solana is high throughput, open and permissionless blockchain utilizing Proof of Stake in tandem with Proof of History to make it the world's first web-scale layer 1 blockchain. The native token for the chain is SOL and is used to pay network participants (i.e. a set of validators) to run on-chain programs or to validate that programs output.
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