Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) was one of the hottest cryptocurrencies of 2021, emerging from relative obscurity and evolving into a crypto that Bank of America called "the Visa of the digital asset ecosystem" by January 2022. Despite being down from the lofty highs it hit in November 2021, Solana boasts a $27 billion market cap, making it the eighth-largest cryptocurrency by valuation.
Solana got to that point on the back of a war chest of venture capital funding, a wave of development and apps with a passionate community of users behind them, and low fees combined with high transaction speeds. NEAR Protocol (CRYPTO: NEAR) is a cryptocurrency that also enjoys many of these same hallmarks and thus looks like it could become the "Solana of 2022."
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This Crypto Will Be the Solana of 2022