Solana (SOL) MCQs September 29, 2025 by u930973931_answers 50 Score: 0 Attempted: 0/50 Subscribe 1. : Who founded Solana? (A) Vitalik Buterin (B) Anatoly Yakovenko (C) Charles Hoskinson (D) Gavin Wood 2. : In which year was Solana launched? (A) 2017 (B) 2019 (C) 2020 (D) 2021 3. : What is the native cryptocurrency of Solana called? (A) SOL (B) SLP (C) SALT (D) SONA 4. : Solana is best known for its ______. (A) High transaction fees (B) Low scalability (C) High-speed blockchain performance (D) Proof of Work consensus 5. : What consensus mechanism does Solana use? (A) Proof of Authority (B) Proof of Work (C) Proof of History + Proof of Stake (D) Delegated Proof of Stake 6. : What is the main unit used to pay transaction fees on Solana? (A) Ether (B) SOL (C) ADA (D) BNB 7. : Solana can process approximately how many transactions per second (TPS)? (A) 7 (B) 30 (C) 65,000+ (D) 2,000 8. : Which programming language is most commonly used for Solana smart contracts? (A) Solidity (B) Rust (C) Python (D) Go 9. : What type of blockchain is Solana? (A) Layer 1 (B) Layer 2 (C) Sidechain (D) Off-chain protocol 10. : Which feature makes Solana unique in its consensus? (A) Byzantine Fault Tolerance (B) Proof of Authority (C) Proof of History (D) Merkle Trees 11. : Which wallet is widely used for Solana? (A) Trust Wallet (B) Phantom Wallet (C) MetaMask (D) Electrum 12. : What is the symbol of Solana in crypto exchanges? (A) SLN (B) SNL (C) SOL (D) SAL 13. : Which layer does Solana operate on? (A) Application Layer (B) Layer 1 Blockchain (C) Sidechain Layer (D) Off-chain Data Layer 14. : Solana’s Proof of History works as a ______. (A) Validator system (B) Cryptographic clock (C) Blockchain explorer (D) Storage solution 15. : Which sector has Solana become very popular in? (A) Agriculture (B) NFTs and DeFi (C) Education (D) Government records 16. : Which network outage problem is often reported with Solana? (A) Too few validators (B) Overload due to high traffic (C) Lack of staking (D) High gas fees 17. : What is the smallest fraction of SOL called? (A) NanoSOL (B) Lamport (C) Gwei (D) MiliSOL 18. : Solana Labs is headquartered in which country? (A) Switzerland (B) United States (C) Singapore (D) Canada 19. : What is the maximum supply of Solana (SOL)? (A) 21 million (B) 84 million (C) No fixed maximum (D) 489 million approx. 20. : Solana’s ecosystem supports which major use case? (A) Cloud computing (B) Smart contracts and dApps (C) Data mining (D) Traditional banking 21. : Which company developed Solana? (A) Solana Labs (B) ConsenSys (C) IOHK (D) Ripple Labs 22. : What is the average block time of Solana? (A) 10 minutes (B) 15 seconds (C) 400 milliseconds (D) 5 seconds 23. : Which famous NFT marketplace supports Solana NFTs? (A) OpenSea (B) Rarible (C) Both A and B (D) None of these 24. : Who co-founded Solana with Anatoly Yakovenko? (A) Sam Bankman-Fried (B) Raj Gokal (C) Gavin Andresen (D) Vitalik Buterin 25. : Solana aims to solve the ______ trilemma. (A) Blockchain (B) Security (C) Inflation (D) Market 26. : Which algorithm does Solana use along with Proof of History? (A) Proof of Work (B) Proof of Stake (C) Proof of Burn (D) Proof of Capacity 27. : Solana is often compared to which blockchain? (A) Ethereum (B) Ripple (C) Bitcoin (D) Litecoin 28. : What is the ticker symbol for Solana’s smallest unit (Lamport) named after? (A) A cryptographer (B) A mathematician (C) A physicist (D) A banker 29. : Solana’s mainnet beta was officially launched in which year? (A) 2018 (B) 2019 (C) 2020 (D) 2022 30. : What makes Solana attractive for developers? (A) High gas fees (B) Fast and cheap transactions (C) Limited scalability (D) Small user base 31. : Which popular stablecoin operates on Solana? (A) USDT (B) USDC (C) Both A and B (D) DAI 32. : Solana supports staking. Who can stake? (A) Only developers (B) Anyone holding SOL (C) Only exchanges (D) Only miners 33. : Solana blockchain is written in which programming language? (A) Java (B) Rust and C (C) Python (D) Solidity 34. : What is Solana Pay used for? (A) Gaming (B) Cross-border payments (C) Smart contract auditing (D) Blockchain storage 35. : What problem does Proof of History primarily solve? (A) Clock synchronization (B) Gas fee reduction (C) Governance voting (D) Token inflation 36. : Solana’s token (SOL) can be used for? (A) Staking (B) Transaction fees (C) Governance (D) All of the above 37. : Which platform invested heavily in Solana ecosystem? (A) Coinbase (B) FTX (before collapse) (C) Binance (D) Kraken 38. : Solana validators are rewarded in? (A) BTC (B) SOL (C) ETH (D) USDT 39. : What is the average transaction fee on Solana? (A) Around $10 (B) Around $0.00025 (C) Around $0.50 (D) Around $5 40. : Solana achieves high throughput by? (A) Limiting block size (B) Using Proof of History (C) Reducing validators (D) Centralized servers 41. : What is Solana Foundation responsible for? (A) Token mining (B) Ecosystem development (C) Printing fiat (D) Government lobbying 42. : Which major challenge has Solana faced? (A) Centralization risks (B) Repeated network outages (C) Validator concentration (D) All of the above 43. : Solana smart contracts are called? (A) dApps (B) Programs (C) Contracts (D) Modules 44. : What is unique about Solana’s validator requirements? (A) Very low computing power (B) Requires high-performance hardware (C) No storage needed (D) Internet speed irrelevant 45. : What governance system does Solana currently use? (A) On-chain voting (B) Off-chain governance (C) DAO controlled (D) Miner voting 46. : Solana ecosystem supports popular apps like? (A) Serum (B) Raydium (C) Magic Eden (D) All of the above 47. : The Solana logo represents? (A) Waves of the ocean (B) Speed and scalability (C) Blockchain layers (D) Triangles of energy 48. : Solana aims to combine security, scalability, and ______. (A) Transparency (B) Decentralization (C) Centralization (D) Regulation 49. : Solana was first conceptualized in which year? (A) 2016 (B) 2017 (C) 2018 (D) 2019 50. : The name “Solana” was inspired by? (A) A mountain (B) A beach in California (C) A computer scientist (D) A city in Spain