“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.
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