Solana’s Second Phone Crosses 100,000 Presales, Securing $45M for Development

“There’s a minimum cost to get a new line going,” Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko told CoinDesk in an interview. With at least 100,000 customers for chapter 2 having already paid $450, the economics for selling an affordable second device are more viable than the “brutal” numbers that backed Solana’s experimental first phone, which originally retailed for $1,000, he said.