Solana: Massive Whale Transfer Coincides with Brave Partnership Announcement
An immense transfer of Solana (SOL) tokens, worth nine figures, took place between two unidentified wallets as Solana secured a collaboration with software giant Brave.
Blockchain tracking service, Whale Alert, reported the transfer of 7,981,517 SOL tokens worth approximately $184,488,088 at the time of the transaction. This caused the initial Solana wallet to become virtually depleted, with only a minimal amount of 0.002 SOL remaining.
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 7,981,517 #SOL (184,488,088 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallethttps://t.co/AXeJUHxFFn
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) February 7, 2023
This significant transfer occurred as Solana announced its partnership with Brave, bringing Solana DApp support to the iOS and Android versions of the Brave browser.
Brave users can now access Solana DApps through Brave’s inbuilt cryptocurrency wallet without leaving the browser, a feature praised by Amelia Daly, Head of Partnerships at Solana Foundation, who stated that this integration is significant as it provides users with browser-based connections to Solana programs that are optimized for mobile use.
Brave CEO and co-founder Brendan Eich commented on the integration, stating that Brave is becoming the preferred browser for the Web3 world, and with the inclusion of Solana DApp support on mobile, they aim to extend their reach to another group seeking quick and user-friendly ways to use their cryptocurrency on the go.
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Brave initially revealed plans to integrate with Solana in late 2021 but held back on providing details.
As of writing, the value of SOL has risen nearly 200% from its low last month and is currently trading at $23.35. The value of Brave’s native token, Basic Attention Token (BAT), has increased 52% in the last month and is currently valued at $0.29.
Alexander Stefanov
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Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coinspress and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
