ChainCatcher News reports that, according to CoinDesk, Backpack CEO Armani Ferrante stated that the Solana ecosystem has become more focused on a more pragmatic area over the past year: financial infrastructure.
After years of exploration in the cryptocurrency space around NFTs, gaming, and social tokens, people’s attention is now shifting back to decentralized finance, trading, and payments.
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