Steve Harvey Is the New Face of Solana’s NFT Boom

Solana has been one of the hottest cryptocurrencies of late, rapidly rising in value from a price of about $37 one month ago to an all-time high of nearly $197 today, according to CoinGecko. Rising network activity is credited for that swing, and now even comedian and television host Steve Harvey is getting in on the “Solana Summer” NFT hype.

Today, Harvey changed his Twitter profile picture to that of an NFT from the Solana Monkey Business collection, a set of 5,000 randomly-generated images of cartoonish, pixelated monkeys. An NFT serves as a deed of ownership for nearly any kind of digital item, and profile pictures collections like CryptoPunks and the Bored Ape Yacht Club are in immensely high demand of late.

Both CryptoPunks and Bored Apes are based on Ethereum, by far the most active platform for NFT collectibles. In August alone, leading marketplace OpenSea registered more than $3.4 billion worth of NFT trading volume on Ethereum, and the vast majority of top-trading NFT projects live on that blockchain network.