Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital has sold around $105 million worth of Ethereum and shifted its focus to Solana amidst concerns over Ethereum's scalability and competition.
Galaxy Digital deposited 65,600 ETH ($105.48M) to Binance and withdrew 752,240 SOL ($98.37M) from Binance in the past 2 weeks.
Solana's decentralized exchanges have surpassed Ethereum's trading volume in the last three months, with 224 million active Solana addresses compared to Ethereum's 79 million.
Galaxy Digital is becoming more involved in Solana's protocol governance, proposing systems like 'MESA' to address inflation control.
The crypto industry is seeing a sentiment shift towards Solana due to its performance and scalability compared to Ethereum.
Solana overtook Ethereum in monthly DEX volume in July 2024, emphasizing the growing competition between the two platforms.
Ethereum is attempting to improve scalability with proposed changes to its proof-of-stake consensus mechanism by Vitalik Buterin.
At present, Solana is trading at $146.65, up 0.52% in the last 24 hours, while Ethereum sits at $2,518, down 0.40% in the same period.