‘My Solana is pumping’ isn’t a phrase you’d expect to hear at the school gates, but last year the playground chat was full of crypto speculation. Parents were piling in, gossip of PTA power trips and rising house prices forgotten, for tales of big wins in the crypto wild west.
And this wasn’t at some private school in the Stockbroker Belt, but a regular, state primary in the SouthWest, albeit in a relatively affluent area. At the secondary schools, it’s the teenage pupils who are trading crypto apparently, like they once traded football stickers.