Crypto traders are talking about the SOL price falling due to the risk of FTX selling its $1.06 billion Solana stake. Are they overexaggerating?
Nivesh Rustgi
Nivesh is an electrical engineering graduate who caught the crypto bug in 2017. Nivesh worked with small mining companies before writing research articles for various crypto media outlets.
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