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Alpenglow is active on mainnet-beta as of 21 October 2026. On 22 October the upgrade page cites votes from 446 of 654 validators and a handoff of about 900 milliseconds.

On 21 October BlockRun said its Solana gateway holds prompts and replies in memory only. The post includes no third-party attestation. The product page did not state the rule on 22 October.

Kamino says tokenized-equity supply has passed $50 million. On 21 October Kamino put AUTO Market deposits above $170 million. That figure is Kamino's own.

Pump.fun announced Pump Bridge on 21 October. Pump.fun says the route is twice as fast as Relay and has 12 times fewer buy errors. No independent measurement is available.

Nine Pump.fun addresses sent a combined 129,797.862076 SOL on 21 October 2026. The same sum moved on to the Kraken hot wallet. The transactions do not show a sale.

Raydium puts third-quarter 2026 net revenue at $7.99 million. The figures are Raydium's own. The charts name Blockworks Research, as of 30 September 2026.

Alpenglow has been active on mainnet since epoch 1064 on 21 October 2026. The RPC returned a certificate for slot 459,652,999. The text keeps the plan, the VAT, and the client notes.

Another Ethereum address deposited 24,885.1 ETH into Tornado Cash on 21 October 2026. Lookonchain attributes it to the Drift exploit attacker. The address from 20 October transferred 3.977 ETH to it.

The National Assembly adopted I-3898 on 16 October by 38 votes to 37. It is not law yet. Reporting wallets from 100,000 euros is still a proposal.

On 21 October 2026 Grayscale opened in-kind transfers for ten products, including the Grayscale Solana Staking ETF (GSOL). The approximate GSOL minimum on 20 October was $80,300.

According to Imperial, Armada will be merged into Imperial's own perp exchange and Phoenix is to be shut down. The 20 October post gives no date.

Project Harmonia applications run through 24 October 2026. The RFP page puts the first cohort in Q1 2027. solana.com says Q4 2026 and Q1 2027. A salon in Frankfurt was set for 19 October.

On 21 October 2026 Securitize cited $1.10 billion on Solana. The same day, the rwa.xyz table showed $1,101,327,849, which rounds to $1.10 billion, with Solana first.

On 21 October 2026 Solana Mobile published the Seeker Connect SDK. It links a dApp to the Seeker wallet in one tap. Session traffic uses Nostr relays that Solana Mobile operates.

SkyAI intends to buy up to 95% of each class of shares and warrants at $3.00. The company says it sold about 1 million SOL and still holds about 1 million. The board rejected Forward Industries.

Solflare has shipped perpetual futures natively in its mobile wallet, settled via PhoenixTrade's on-chain orderbook. More than 65 markets can be traded long or short — without leaving the wallet.

According to Sunrise, TSLA is listed on Solana via Sunrise. Backpack Securities says the token is redeemable 1:1 for Tesla shares. The mint sets a delegate, pause, and freeze.

On 20 October, Beezie said the Base-to-Solana migration is open. The window ends on 27 October at 8:00 a.m. US Eastern Time, which is 1:00 p.m. CET. Wallet balances are not transferred automatically.

On 20 October, Chainstack described a rebuild of its Solana RPC. Chainstack puts getProgramAccounts p95 at 25 to 60 seconds before and under 2 seconds after. Every figure is Chainstack’s own claim.

On 20 October, Hylo wrote that it had closed a strategic round of $1 million. Hylo says Solana Ventures led and Colosseum joined. Both investors wrote the same day that they are backing Hylo again.

On 19 October, LI.FI announced Ondo stocks on Solana through Intents. On 20 October, 1inch and Ondo said more than 450 assets are also reachable through 1inch. Ondo restricts Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

According to Solana, successful non-vote transactions reached 8.92 billion in the third quarter of 2026. The 104 percent compares with the fourth quarter of 2025. Against the previous quarter the gain is about 24 percent.

Filip Dragoslavić said on 20 October 2026 that he is leaving Solflare. His post says co-founder Vidor Gencel now leads the wallet as sole CEO. He does not name a departure date.

On 20 October 2026 Superteam Germany pointed to a content bounty for people based in Germany. Fifteen winners are to receive 400 USDG each for Breakpoint. The post says 11 p.m. on 25 October. The listing says 21:59:59 UTC.

According to Asymmetric Research, svmgov dropped override votes when the validator never voted. The fix reached mainnet on 3 August 2026. SGP-0002 stayed at 67.00 percent.

Since 19 October 2026, 10:16 p.m. Berlin, the npm latest tag for @solana/web3.js points to 3.1.1. A registry check on 20 October showed that. Version 1.x needs an explicit version.

Anza moved the Agave v4.4 schedule in the wiki. Volunteers for 10 percent of stake, and the testnet restart, are now 26 October. The 25 percent step is 2 November.

Altitude invited visitors to a Money20/20 USA demo of Bill Pay. The demo uses the ANSI X9.150 QR standard and is meant to settle in USDC on Solana. No product launch is documented.

Blockworks puts Solana app revenue at $299.1 million in the third quarter, up 48 percent. Tokenized stocks did $7.1 billion. Spot SOL ETPs took in $492.3 million net.

SolanaFloor says Collector Crypt passed Axiom in Solana revenue over the past seven days. DefiLlama shows $3,625,001 for Collector Crypt from 12 to 18 October, and $2,710,034 for Axiom.

In Q&A 2949, dated 6 October 2026, ESMA sets the deadline for placing client funds at a crypto-asset service provider into an account with a credit institution or a central bank.

According to Hyperdash, users of six wallet apps are down $280 million on Hyperliquid perps. Fees are slightly more than half of the $126 million lost through the apps since 10 November 2025.

On 19 October, Pyth wrote on X that 26 single-stock indices are available around the clock, covering the US, Korea, and Japan. A documentation list confirming those 26 names was not available.

From 19 October 2026, customers of the first Sparkassen can trade five crypto assets in the app, including Solana. The fee is €0.99 per order. Sources put the license year at 2024 and at 2025.

According to Sunrise, trading volume over the past week was above $840 million, with new holders above 245,000. Nine new listings include TSM (TSMC) and AVGO (Broadcom).

Solana Breakpoint 2026 takes place 15-17 November at Olympia London — the flagship conference's first-ever European edition. Organizers expect 6,000+ attendees from over 100 countries; tickets start at $100 (students).

The Solana weekly recap: Alpenglow is scheduled for October 21 and epoch 1064, Ledger pulls hardware wallets off open shelves, and U.S. spot ETFs on SOL post a tenth straight outflow day.

According to Blockworks, 557,083,806 stablecoin transfers ran on Solana in September, ahead of BNB Chain at 542,805,788. The chart counts transfers, not a dollar amount.

Superteam India hosts Solana Summit India on 2 November at the JW Marriott Mumbai Sahar. Registration is on Luma and needs organizer approval.

Marinade shows inflation-commission jumps from 0 to 100 percent within an epoch. The reward split uses the rate from the start of the prior epoch, not the rate on screen.

Yuga Labs has started Mudwater. Each digital item is a Solana NFT, backed by a printed card in a vault. Bored Apes can claim 10 packs each, Mutant Apes 2, until 19 January 2027.

Castle Labs puts tokenized real-world assets on Solana at $4.3 billion, up from $700 million in one year. Tokenized stocks rose from $63 million to $455 million.

The FCAT report puts tokenized real-world assets on Solana at $4.4 billion, up from about $1 billion in a year. It also counts more than two years without a major mainnet outage and about 99.7 percent vote success.

Helius has opened preconfSubscribe on every paid plan. New filters cover source, signers, signatures, and instructions. The docs leave the free plan out.

Meteora is extending Referral Staking after three cycles. From cycle 4, staking rewards are claimable only if LP positions opened in that cycle generate at least $10 in fees.

Phantom is putting Send and Deposit back at the front of the Home tab. Seed phrases can be created during onboarding again. Apple Pay purchases land in seconds, Brandon Millman wrote.

Rick Wurster said on 15 October that three new coins are due by year-end and that crypto transfers are rolling out. He did not name them. SOL, AVAX and LINK are in the 27 August release.

Superteam says individual developers and builders get the Helius Developer plan free for one year. Startups and growing teams get the Business plan free for three months.

On 16 October, US spot SOL ETFs lost 12.668 million US dollars according to SoSoValue, all of it from BSOL. Farside’s table shows a tenth straight outflow day since 5 October.

Accelerate Shanghai is postponed. According to Lily Liu, registrations quadrupled overnight and ran far past the registered cap.

Anza calls Agave v4.3.2 the recommended version for every mainnet validator. The release carries fixes for Alpenglow in epoch 1064 on 21 October.

The RWA Foundation writes that BlackRock’s BUIDL holds $871.5 million across 13 wallets on Solana. SOLANA·HUB did not recount the figure on rwa.xyz.

Firedancer has opened bounty.firedancer.io. Through 20 November, rewards are doubled, and tripled for Alpenglow. The blog reviews the Immunefi contest from 9 April to 9 May.

Jupiter has redesigned its token pages. The new layout adds a watchlist for tokens and wallets, a Pulse overview, and holder labels.

Jupiter writes that YOLO reached $1 billion in volume in less than 24 hours. The post names up to 1,000× leverage on SOL, BTC and ETH.

Kamino names Matthew Klopfer and Blake Messer and opens a U.S. headquarters in New York. The release cites volume, loans, and two institutional users.

Meteora now prices DAMM v1 LP shares with pool.lp_mint_supply. Seven pools stay disabled for deposits and swaps. One wallet reached about $12,644.

Capital Markets writes that Ondo has passed $500 million in tokenized RWAs on Solana. On rwa.xyz, Ondo shows 454 RWAs and $514.6 million there.

Phantom has crossed $50 billion in perps volume. The post counts 192,000 traders and millions of positions over a little more than a year.

Pyth reports $2.03 trillion of third-quarter RWA perps volume priced by Pyth, about 96 percent across three classes. The figures are Pyth’s own.

Ramp supports USDG on Solana. Converting U.S. dollars to USDG and back carries no fees, according to Ramp’s digital-asset team and Global Dollar.

SlowMist reports a phishing campaign built around a fake Ledger firmware update. The page shows a device list and an Update Now button.

Rachel Conlan shows the Solana Foundation’s new Shanghai office and Solana lighting on the skyline. Crypto trading stays banned in mainland China. Accelerate Shanghai on 16 October is postponed.

Raydium and Jupiter say the ProShares ETF UVXY is tradable on Solana through Sunrise and Backpack Securities. Jupiter cites 1.5 times the daily move.

Sunrise writes that ZEC is tradable on Solana through NEAR Intents. The contract address is in Sunrise’s thread.

Frankfurt-based AllUnity launched USDAU on 30 September, a fully reserved dollar stablecoin. The firm describes itself as a BaFin-licensed e-money institution. This report follows on 15 October.

Bitso has added USDPT, Western Union's dollar stablecoin on Solana, to its app. DiarioBitcoin says eligible customers in Mexico can buy and sell it with pesos.

The Solana Foundation says BRIJ is on pay.sh. Agents search flights with no signup and book through USDC escrow. Search costs $0.10 per call.

Jupiter has put YOLO into beta on jup.ag. Long or short on SOL, BTC and ETH with up to 1,000× leverage, trading against the House. Jupiter calls YOLO unaudited.

Kamino says users can earn yield on SOL through a Gauntlet-curated vault on near.com. The wallet address stays hidden from the vault.

Pascal Gauthier introduced Atom at Op3n on 15 October. He puts the Founders Edition at $849. The Seeker app comes preinstalled.

Ledger says opened spot checks, including in Germany, were clean. Resellers hand devices over at purchase.

MediaMarktSaturn has removed all Ledger products from stores and online platforms. Donjon describes an LTE implant in CryptoBilis devices. Ledger has not verified losses from devices bought elsewhere.

The NEAR Foundation has appointed Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz to the Foundation Council. He keeps leading Helius and will judge the NEAR Hackathon from 1 to 14 November.

Uniform Labs says Polychain led the Multiliquid seed round, with Circle Ventures among the investors. Pre-seed and seed together come to $8 million.

The Solana Foundation says pay.sh now works with Ledger Agent Intent. The agent asks, and the signature happens on the Ledger.

Sunrise is partnering with NEAR Intents. NEAR is tradable on Solana via Sunrise. A direct NEAR Intents integration on Sunrise is the planned next step.

The EBA classifies USDC as the EU's first significant e-money token. From 12 November 2026 it supervises own funds, reserves, liquidity and redemption plans. The ACPR keeps governance.

Firedancer v26.10.2 is mainnet-ready and supports Alpenglow. The TowerBFT switch is not supported and runs on Agave.

An early cohort sends bundles straight to Jito BAM. The block engine hop drops out. DBI is paused during Alpenglow maintenance.

Marinade Q3 MNDE rewards are open to claim until 1 April 2027. 4,093,426 unclaimed MNDE from the last round returned to the treasury.

Solflare users can claim SOL freed by the rent cut with one tap. Two live phases and about 30 percent are Solflare’s figures. Third-party “Reclaim SOL” sites are unnecessary for this.

Eight teams present at Superteam Germany on 15 October, with Cherry VC, Speedinvest and Burda. No funding commitment.

Anza published Agave v4.4.0-beta.1 as a pre-release. Validators can set commission in basis points, separately for block revenue, and RPC gains new options. It is a beta, not a mainnet release.

Candy says minted NFTs are locked and a reimbursement for the drained SOL is in preparation. 420 SOL moved to a new address. Who controls that address is not established.

Candy says more SOL was taken from Candy wallets and the site stays locked. DC3 counts about 1,500 wallets. An RPC query shows 1,547 transactions into one address and a balance of 425.99 SOL.

Backpack Securities issued CMG and says the token is redeemable 1:1 for Chipotle shares. Sunrise lists the mint. Raydium says CMG trades there.

DeFi Development Corp. reports about 22,070 more SOL and SOL equivalents over the past week. Holdings are about 2,586,282. On 11 October, SkyAI said it had sold about 1 million SOL.

Jupiter opened claims on 50 million JUP for July through September. Distribution follows time-weighted stake. Jupiter sets the deadline at 12 January 2027.

Kurate says people can earn and borrow on EURC and EURØP on Solana. Its own markets run on Kamino. The site marks a proof-of-concept phase and showed €485.20 in TVL.

Pyth says on X that third-quarter ARR is $11.49 million, 86 percent above the prior quarter. The figure is Pyth's own. The post adds Nasdaq Basic, Kalshi, and pre-IPO indices.

Sanctum says an update will turn the wallet into a three-key multisig. Any two keys would approve a transaction. No start date is given.

Aster says ASTER is available on Solana via Sunrise. Sunrise lists the mint on sunrise.xyz. The page does not describe how the token is backed.

Bitquery counts 4,497,798 Solana wallets that received lookalike dust from 30 October 2025 to 7 October 2026. 1,104 later paid a fake address, $940,106 in all, a floor.

Bitquery counts 6,850,144 sandwich attacks on Solana from 30 October 2025 to 7 October 2026. Gross take is 309,010 SOL, $29.7 million before costs. 96% hit Pump.fun.

Bitquery counts at least 2.4 billion failed Solana swap transactions, 22% of attempts. Fees on the recorded failures are at least 112,948 SOL, about $11.3 million.

The Solana Foundation plans to remove durable nonces from the protocol. Onchain programs that check an offline signature are the replacement. The guide sets no calendar date. Ordinary wallet users need do nothing.

Marinade says Protected Staking Rewards paid 71 SOL since 1 September, across 34 incidents on 19 validators. The payout comes from the validator's bond.

HKEX admits the Pando Solana ETF (2831, PANDO SOL) to trading on 13 October 2026. The fund holds SOL directly and does not stake it. The management fee is 0.60% a year. Ongoing charges are estimated at 1.60%.

Raydium says RIOT trades on Solana via Sunrise and Backpack Securities. Sunrise and the mint name the token Riot Platforms - Backpack Securities. The page lists the US and Canada as blocked.

Jupiter says USDGO trading liquidity is live on Jupiter Lend’s AMM, provided by Fluid. Jupiter says Anchorage Digital Bank issues the stablecoin and names OSL as the platform.

2WA is bringing the USDGO Plus SP fund on-chain on Solana, Solana and USDGO wrote. OSL tokenizes, custodies, and distributes the units to professional investors in Hong Kong.

Gold Token SA announced DGLD on Solana on 5 October 2026, with access in the SwissBorg app. The Token-2022 mint was initialized on 28 July. One token is one fine ounce; delivery starts at one gram.

Epoch 1053, the first full epoch at the 200 ms target, lasted 26.2 hours in an RPC reading on 11 October. The average across 432,000 slots is 218.3 ms.

Jupiter Manage puts borrow, repay, withdraw, claim and trade on one Portfolio v2 page. The new homepage is an experiment on edge.jup.ag. Weekly emails are announced, and no send is documented.

Solana's account says there are more than 2,000 tokenized equities on Solana. The post is one sentence and a graphic, with no counting method. The figure is Solana's own, and it is unverified.

The Solana weekly recap: mainnet runs on 200ms slots from epoch 1053, Samsung Wallet adds USDC transfers in the United States, and Securitize launches twelve U.S. stock tokens on Solana.

Farside sums the five sessions to 9 October at 25.0 million US dollars of outflows. The Block, using SoSoValue, reports 24.8 million. Bitwise BSOL is the largest line. The Block is the source for the 14 prior inflow weeks.

BNY says selected EU institutions can use its custody platform for assets including SOL. The ESMA register file of 7 October 2026 lists Belgium only.

Jito's 9 October changelog names more than one client version ahead of Alpenglow, and the strings do not match. BAM nodes enter maintenance before activation. No activation epoch is set.

Anza's tracker lists the testnet migration from epoch 1042 as SIMD-0326. The new overview page names SIMD-0384 as the migration gate. No mainnet date is confirmed.

Anza's Alpenglow page marks testnet and devnet complete and mainnet-beta as upcoming. It names no date. The page calls SIMD-0384 the migration feature gate.

ESMA expects MiCA-authorised providers to stop services in non-compliant stablecoins for EU clients. Legacy holdings should be wound down within three months of 8 October 2026. The opinion names no token.

Under OP-PIP-136, every dollar the Pyth DAO receives from Pyth products goes to PYTH purchases for the reserve. Pyth's own Q3 figures: $11.49 million ARR and 276 paying accounts.

Sanctum introduced swSOL. Part of the SOL pool stays liquid and the rest is staked through an LST. Staking rewards go to protocols, not to holding the token. ORE is in the first partner group.

Mainnet-beta has run 200ms slots since the epoch 1053 boundary on 9 October 2026. Anza confirmed the switch. At 200ms the block limit is 50 million CUs.

Marinade Borrow is open: borrow USDC or SOL against stake accounts, mSOL, or SOL without unstaking first. The loan runs on Kamino or Jupiter Lend. Rates are variable, and positions can be liquidated.

Orca and Loopscale will operate together as Formation, based in New York, with Luke Truitt as CEO. Both apps keep running; positions, loans, and vaults stay. The press release puts Orca's volume since 2021 above $550 billion.

On October 7, Solana said x402 batch payments are available via PayAI and BlockRun. An agent deposits a ceiling, authorizes calls by signature, and settles in bulk. The Foundation measured more than 1 million payments a second in a proxy test.

From the last week of October, eligible Galaxy users in the United States can send USDC in Samsung Wallet. Samsung names Solana and Sui; custody runs through Bastion and Coinbase. The service is not available in the EU.

Securitize launched tokens on twelve U.S. stocks on Solana. Each token is, the firm says, 1:1 backed and a UCC Article 8 security entitlement. Trading is in USDC after KYC, not around the clock yet. The EU is named; Switzerland is not.

The official Solana account reports that World Network's WLD is live on Solana via Sunrise. Raydium says Worldcoin is trading there. No Sunrise or World announcement with a mint address was available.

The Solana weekly recap: Metaplex introduces a standard for permissioned securities, banks in North Dakota settle payments over Solana, and Alpenglow finalizes on testnet at a median of 54ms.

Backpack Securities has brought BlackRock stock to Solana as BLK via Sunrise, redeemable 1:1 and transferable to traditional brokerages. In the same week, Bloom Energy (BE) and Powerus (PUSA) were added.

Fiserv has put its digital asset platform into production with financial institutions. The first use case is the Bank of North Dakota's Roughrider Coin, a dollar-backed token for bank-to-bank payments, settled on Solana.

Jupiter is the first app to support Anza's new standard for off-chain messages. For limit orders and DCA, a Ledger used via Jupiter Wallet now shows readable text, per Jupiter, ending blind signing there.

Metaplex has introduced MPL-3643, a standard for permissioned real-world assets and tokenized securities on Solana. Per its documentation, it runs in limited-access early access on mainnet and has not been audited.

The Solana weekly recap: Alpenglow replaces TowerBFT on testnet and devnet, with no mainnet date set. Plus new tokenized assets from ETFs to a Canadian-dollar stablecoin, and the end of the Switchboard oracle.

ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (SQQQ) is tradable around the clock on Solana via Sunrise and Backpack Securities, per Raydium. The ETF targets three times the inverse of the Nasdaq-100's daily performance.

Switchboard Technology Labs is winding down operations. All implementations are deprecated, and support ended on September 25. Per Switchboard, users should immediately migrate to other oracles such as Pyth or RedStone.

Helius has made Parsed Streams and the Parsed Events API generally available, including on the free plan. Both deliver decoded Solana transactions for more than 3,600 programs and replace the Enhanced Transaction products.

Centrifuge has made HYB available on Solana: an actively managed strategy of U.S. high-yield corporate bonds, managed by New York Life Investment Management. The announcement does not state access conditions.

The Solana Foundation has appointed former Binance CMO Rachel Conlan as Chief Strategy Officer and Jamal Raees, previously at Polygon Labs, as General Manager of Payments. Both roles target institutions and payment providers.

The ZAMA token of FHE protocol Zama has been tradable on Solana via Sunrise as a canonical token since September 24. Zama describes confidential applications on Solana as a future step; what is live so far is trading.

Tetra Digital Group has brought CADD to Solana, per Tetra the first Canadian-dollar stablecoin issued by a regulated financial institution. The same day, Tetra warned of fake CADD tokens and shared the official address.

Metaplex introduces Vantage, a customizable trading terminal: freely arrangeable modules for charts, research, order entry, and portfolio, with market and limit orders. The asset infrastructure provider moves into the trading interface.

The Solana Foundation has open-sourced Microscope: a self-hosted monitoring stack that decodes program instructions, normalizes Squads multisig activity, and triggers alerts — without the Foundation seeing any data.

The Agave 4.2 overview is out: rent drops by 90 percent, transactions grow to 4096 bytes, and slot time is set to halve to 200ms in stages. Alpenglow code is feature-complete — activation comes with 4.3.

Jupiter has taken perpetual markets for HYPE, ZEC, tokenized SpaceX shares (SPCX), SK Hynix, SanDisk, and JUP live — as a beta, with early access for JUP stakers. Under the surface, execution runs through GUM's orderbook.

Backpack Securities issues the Global X Copper Miners ETF as tokenized COPX on Solana: 1:1 against the NYSE Arca-listed ETF, tradable around the clock, redeemable via the Backpack Exchange.

The ZetaChain community has approved migrating ZETA as a native SPL token to Solana; its own layer-1 is to be wound down. Snapshot and swap details await a second vote — and exactly that window is where the scams lurk.

Three weeks of Solana in one recap: lower rent, transactions up to 4,096 bytes, and 250ms slots on mainnet; the disinflation doubling waits for code; and the SEC and CFTC send two signals on the same day.

A Solana Improvement Document proposes doubling SOL's disinflation rate from 15 to 30 percent per year. The proposal is under discussion; a voting timeline is still to be determined.

The Solana weekly recap: the first binding on-chain vote doubles disinflation — by a hair and not yet active. A card contract exploit shows the boundary of self-custody, and the Foundation lays out the infra calendar through October.

An attacker exploited an outdated version of a Rain card contract and drained card balances of 1,685 Avici users totaling roughly $500,000. Self-custody wallets were untouched; refunds plus 10 percent cashback are complete.

Helius opens a WebSocket interface delivering decoded transactions before they reach processed status — reconstructed from shreds and deduplicated. For latency-critical apps, with a clear caveat: nothing is final before execution.

Solana's onchain governance is live: validators submit Solana Governance Proposals (SGPs) and vote stake-weighted — with a 100,000 SOL bar to propose, a 15% support threshold and delegator override via Merkle proof.

The Resource and Inclusion Fees SIMD is accepted: 2500 lamports of the base fee go to the validator, the rest is computed from requested compute units and burned. Not yet active on mainnet.

Phantom discontinues support for the Sui network on September 24, 2026. Funds remain safe on-chain; until the cutoff there is a fee-waived swap path or export to a Sui-native wallet.

The Solana weekly recap: the first slot time reduction since mainnet genesis is effective, the first formal on-chain vote is running — and from the Agentic Payments Alliance to Ramp, the agent payment stack closes up.

Shinhan Asset Management agrees a proof of concept with the Solana Foundation, Etherfuse, and Orca for a won-denominated tokenized short-duration bond fund — modeled on BUIDL, focused on KYC/AML and Korea's STO framework.

The tokenized stock of pharma giant Eli Lilly launched on Solana via Sunrise, issued by Backpack Securities. The product disclosures are blunt: high risk, no ownership rights, not available in all countries.

Finance platform Ramp lets business customers fund agent wallets: AI agents purchase via x402 on Solana while attribution, audit trails, and spend controls stay in the corporate ledger. Launching as an alpha for builders.

The Rain-initiated Agentic Payments Alliance is to set standards for payments triggered by AI agents — with founding members including Visa, Mastercard, Circle, and Fiserv. The Solana Foundation is a founding member.

The Solana weekly recap: BlackRock files for tokenized fund shares and Bitwise explores on-chain ETF shares, MoneyGram ships cash ramps as an API — and a provider outage shows where the network holds and where it concentrates.

The first release candidate of Anchor v2 is out — a complete rebuild of the dominant Solana program framework on Pinocchio. Solana Developers call for testing; the state is explicitly not production-ready yet.

Coinbase has deployed its first production smart contract on Solana: a lightweight DEX aggregator built by the Vector team. Per Coinbase figures, it reaches 99.9 percent routability across Solana DEX tokens and cuts quote errors by 80 percent.

Jupiter launched the Offerbook public beta: a peer-to-peer credit market on Solana with self-negotiated terms, fixed rate, and fixed term. No price oracle, no price-based liquidations. Collateral: tokens, NFTs, and TCG cards.

Triton One ships compact indexes for Solana's historical data in Old Faithful — smaller and faster. The legacy formats end at epoch 1020, expected around August 21. Anyone running historical queries needs to migrate.

Bitwise is developing a framework with Superstate to let shares of its Solana staking ETF BSOL optionally be held in tokenized form — with blockchain recordkeeping via Superstate. An exploration, not a launch: Bitwise gives no assurance.

The Coinbase Developer Platform's SQL API now supports Solana: on-chain data becomes queryable via SQL — initially focused on SPL Token and Token-2022 transfers, without running your own indexer or decode pipeline.

Dominion Market brings SILV to Solana: each token represents one troy ounce of physical silver in allocated, segregated vault custody to LBMA standard. Tradable around the clock; physical redemption is set to follow in three to six months.

Solana Mobile launches a vulnerability disclosure policy, bug bounty, and security grants. In scope: the Seed Vault hardware key storage, the SKR on-chain programs, and the Genesis token infrastructure. Rewards up to $75,000, paid in SKR.

Solana announces the Solana School Fall Class: a seven-week hands-on program with three sessions per week, guest lectures, and open DevRel office hours — from August 31 to October 16, with a demo day oriented toward Colosseum. Applications open.

A routing failure at hosting provider TeraSwitch took around 90 Solana validators with roughly 28.8 percent of stake offline for about half an hour. Blocks and finality continued — the critical 33.34 percent threshold was never reached.

MoneyGram brings its Ramps API to Solana: compliant cash deposits in over 25 countries and payouts in over 170 countries — without your own banking integration. The Rift wallet is the first Solana integrator.

Remittance giant MoneyGram has run an active validator on Solana since 22 June and joined the Solana Developer Platform — following the launch of its MGUSD stablecoin (on Stellar). MoneyGram also runs validators on Tempo and Midnight.

The stock of Nasdaq-listed AI infrastructure provider Nebius Group launched as a tokenized security on Solana — issued by Backpack Securities via Sunrise, redeemable 1:1 and tradable around the clock.

Jupiter rolled out Lend v2. Optional Smart Vaults make deposits and borrowed assets double as liquidity for the Jupiter router — deposits earn lending yield plus trading fees, and borrow costs can drop.

Solstice Finance put strcUSX live in its YieldVault: users deposit USX and choose a senior or junior tranche with exposure to Strategy's Nasdaq-listed preferred stock STRC — the shares themselves are not tokenized.

The Solana Foundation promotes the Tokens Assets API as now open to all builders. The service unifies asset variants on Solana and provides combined market data. Per the Foundation, more than 90 products use it already, including Phantom and DFlow.

The Solana weekly recap: tokenomics package SGP-0003 clears the signaling hurdle, Western Union brings its stablecoin and a Visa card to Solana, Helius shows tiered privacy — and 350ms slots run on testnet.

The team behind Solana perpetuals exchange Flash Trade is shutting down operations unless an acquirer for its tech, brand, and IP is found. Withdrawals remain open; sale proceeds are to go pro rata to FAF holders.

Helius unveils Rings, a privacy system on Solana: the default ring encrypts asset and amount while sender and recipient stay visible. Institutions can configure their own rings with full anonymity and compliance rules.

Solana Mobile has allocated 27 million SKR to participants of the second Seeker Summer round. Claiming opens on 30 July at 16:00 UTC in the Seed Vault wallet.

Sunrise announces that the stock of GTA publisher Take-Two Interactive launches tokenized on Solana this Thursday. The issuer is Backpack Securities; per Backpack, the token is redeemable 1:1 for real Take-Two shares.

Anza has opened the bug bounty repository for Alpenglow — the new Solana consensus that replaces TowerBFT. Submissions aren't open yet, scope and rewards to follow. A hardening step ahead of the targeted mainnet rollout.

BaFin-licensed e-money institute AllUnity — a joint venture of DWS, Flow Traders, and Galaxy — launched its MiCAR-compliant Swiss franc stablecoin CHFAU on Solana. Circulation at launch: nearly 50 million francs.

dTelecom makes five realtime voice endpoints available on pay.sh — WebRTC, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech. AI agents start voice sessions without signup and pay per use via x402.

Metaplex gives token issuers more launch control: trading can start one hour to 30 days after the sale, launch pools get caps with pro-rata refunds, and a summary tool bundles the chosen settings.

Metaplex updated its trading interface: live quote refreshes, quick buy/sell, Jito tips, MEV protection, and a USD/SOL switcher — bonding curve and DEX trading now run in one unified experience.

Raydium announced the CLMM Maker Suite: in-pool limit orders, dynamic fees, and single-sided fee collection. More control for liquidity providers, more precise execution for traders on Solana.

The Solana Foundation shipped an open-source on-chain program for native subscriptions and spending allowances. Three models cover agent spending, recurring payments, and subscription plans.

Western Union and Rain launch the Stablecard: a Visa card based on Western Union's own stablecoin USDPT, which runs on Solana and is issued by Anchorage Digital Bank. Live in 37 markets, with over 60 targeted by the end of 2026.

BlackRock filed with the SEC to issue shares of its new stablecoin reserve fund BRSRV in tokenized form — recorded on-chain via Securitize, including on Solana. The fund holds only cash, short-term US Treasuries, and repos.

The Solana weekly recap: the new block limit is active and showing first effects, Agave 4.2 announces 90 percent less rent and the path to 200ms slots — and from MSTR to Morgan Stanley to Baillie Gifford, Wall Street advances on Solana.

SIMD-0286 increases the compute budget per block from 60 to 100 million compute units — roughly 66 percent more capacity. The change went live on mainnet on 29 July 2026 with epoch 1009.

Michael Coates, the Solana Foundation's security chief and former Twitter CISO, warns in a CoinDesk interview: AI-powered social engineering with deepfakes and cloned voices will get much worse — and most hacks don't start on-chain.

Solana Mobile published an official tutorial for getting into Seeker app development: set up an Android emulator, configure Solflare on devnet, fund it with devnet SOL — development starts without physical hardware.

Anza describes Quantumglow, a post-quantum adaptation of the Alpenglow consensus. A hash-based signature scheme called Ax replaces BLS — finality latency and communication costs stay practically unchanged, according to Anza.

Backpack now embeds mandatory disclosures from the SEC's EDGAR database into its stock pages — annual reports, material event notices, and insider transactions in the original, not just as headlines.

UK asset manager Baillie Gifford issues what Solana calls the first fully native, UK-regulated tokenized fund on Solana — settled through BNY's Digital Transfer Agent.

Jito's first BAM plugin is in use on Archer: market-maker transactions get deterministic priority — for tighter spreads and deeper liquidity in on-chain trading.

Korean payment provider KSNET signs a memorandum of understanding with the Solana Foundation: Solana Pay is to be integrated into a network of over 330,000 merchants — with x402 additionally being tested for AI agent payments.

Vybe Network makes its Solana data endpoints available on pay.sh — token prices, top holders, wallet PnL, and DEX trades, accessible without signup and paid per call via x402.

Hastra has launched AUTO — tokenized US auto loans from the near-prime segment, usable as collateral on Kamino. It is the first third-party-originated credit class on the platform.

Jupiter has combined its swap interface and trading terminal into a single page. New alongside it: curated live news, a sector heatmap, and the ability to track large traders' wallets right next to the swap window.

PayBox is a non-custodial payment vault that lets AI assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT pay on Solana. The agent only receives scoped permissions, the private key stays with the user, and approvals run via passkeys or limits.

Solflare introduces a bridge feature with Aurora: users get permanent deposit addresses and send assets from Bitcoin, Ethereum, and six more chains straight into their Solana wallet — like depositing to an exchange.

The Solana Staking Index (SSI) measures network yield from issuance and block rewards, excluding MEV, and is recalculated every epoch. Published via Pyth, it is readable on-chain — a reference point for providers and wallets.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management has launched the Morgan Stanley Solana Trust on NYSE Arca. The product stakes part of its SOL holdings and passes net rewards through; the expense ratio is 0.14 percent.

Backpack Securities issues Strategy stock (MSTR) as a tokenized share on Solana via Sunrise. It is redeemable 1:1 for real shares, transferable to a brokerage account, and tradable 24/7 on DEXes such as Raydium and Jupiter.

Coinbase has launched a Launches section: newly listed tokens on Solana and Base are tradable there as soon as they are on-chain. Solana orders route through Jupiter, and a self-custody wallet is required.

Colosseum Eternal is open again: builders start their own four-week sprint with a click, post a weekly update, and compete for $250,000 in pre-seed funding — independent of the main hackathon cycle.

Sunrise reports that tokenized SpaceX stock SPCX is the first of its listings to pass one billion dollars in total volume on Solana — roughly seven weeks after launching alongside the Nasdaq IPO.

The Solana weekly recap: the fee SIMD is accepted and ties the burn to network usage, Phantom ends Monad support, Backpack rebuilds discovery — and card top-ups hit a record high.

The Solana weekly recap: the Linux Foundation turns x402 into an open standard, Japan's SBI moves its blockchain initiative to Solana, Anza opens the Alpenglow bug bounty — and agentic commerce gets a hackathon.

Google Cloud and the Solana Foundation are running a hackathon on agentic commerce: AI agents that pay on Solana themselves. Partners include Korean payment firms like Shinhan Card; demo day is August 21.

JTX is live: Jito's self-custody trading platform launched July 14 on Solana — spot trading for vetted assets and tokenized equities. JIP-38 routes the DAO's fee share entirely into automated JTO buybacks and burns.

The Linux Foundation has operationally launched the x402 Foundation. Coinbase handed the payment protocol to open governance; 40 organizations are members — including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and the Solana Foundation.

Japanese financial group SBI Holdings is moving its blockchain initiative from Corda to Solana. The SBI Solana Global JV — now including the Solana Foundation — plans stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, and payment infrastructure for AI agents.

The Solana weekly recap: Solana passes one billion transactions in a week for the first time and reaches epoch 1000, a governance attack costs BonkDAO around $20M, Jito and Privy ship FullSend — and Breakpoint is coming to London.

Backpack Securities combines regulated US stock brokerage with tokenization on Solana. The first tokenized securities launch via Sunrise, backed 1:1 by real shares.

Solana mainnet has reached 1,000 epochs. The Solana Foundation marks the milestone with an official page featuring a countdown and a wallet checker that shows — without connecting — the epoch in which an address was first active.

Privy has integrated FullSend, the transaction-landing service built with Jito, into its wallet stack. Privy cites 99.999% landing reliability since January and submission in 4 instead of 25 milliseconds, with MEV protection by default.

BonkDAO's treasury was drained via a governance attack: a malicious proposal (BIP #76) passed through the regular voting process and extracted around $20 million in BONK. No smart-contract bug — the attacker bought voting power.

Solana processed more than 1 billion non-vote transactions in the week ending 6 July — real user activity excluding validator voting. The milestone is verifiable via independent onchain statistics.

The Solana weekly recap: onchain governance with SGPs is live, Agave v4.1 is recommended for mainnet validators, prediction market World launches directly in Phantom — and Drift returns as Velocity.

World is live as a non-custodial prediction market on Solana: event contracts on crypto prices and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, onchain settlement in the CASH stablecoin via Chainlink — integrated into the Phantom wallet on iOS, Android and desktop.

Anza recommends Agave v4.1 for mainnet validators: lower RAM, XDP out of experimental, Pinocchio rewrites and several SIMD activations. The release prepares for Alpenglow; 200ms slots and larger blocks only arrive with v4.2.

The Solana weekly recap: MoneyGram becomes a validator and joins the Developer Platform, Allfunds brings tokenized funds to Solana, Colosseum names the Frontier Hackathon winners, and Raydium reports $3B in tokenized equities.

Solana DEX Raydium reports $2 billion in cumulative trading volume for tokenized US stocks. Independently confirmed so far is the $1B mark from May 2026 via xStocks.

Colosseum has announced the winners of the Solana Frontier Hackathon — with 2,857 projects, the largest crypto hackathon to date by its own account. The Grand Champion is CrowdBrain, a robotics DePIN project, plus 25 top projects.

Allfunds — a platform with over 3,300 asset managers and around €1.8T in assets under administration — expands tokenized fund distribution to Solana (Project Harmonia). Issuance and lifecycle run compliantly via ioBuilders/Asseto.

The Solana weekly recap: Moody's brings credit ratings on-chain, AWS lets AI bots pay via x402, Ondo and SpaceX drive tokenized stocks to record volume, Triton shows Cloudbreak benchmarks — plus SIMD-550 on SOL disinflation.

Tokenized trading cards are a growing consumer trend on Solana: the market hit around $230M in May (7× in a year), with Solana holding the largest share. Collector Crypt crossed $1B in volume with around 40,000 daily users.

The RPC 2.0 initiative ships its first modules: Superbank makes the entire Solana ledger queryable in milliseconds, Cloudbreak indexes account reads — open-source, built by Triton with Helius, Jupiter, Anza, and the Solana Foundation.

Tokenized stocks hit record volume: around $4.3 billion in 30 days, driven by the SpaceX token $SPCX. Per market trackers, most of the $SPCX volume ran on Solana — traded around the clock.

Moody's brings machine-readable credit ratings to Solana via tokenization specialist Alphaledger. Tokenized bonds now carry their rating directly on-chain — Moody's first major public blockchain, after the institutional Canton Network.

Ondo Global Markets adds 173 more tokenized US stocks and ETFs — the catalog grows past 430 assets across Ethereum, Solana and BNB Chain. Focus areas: AI, robotics, quantum and defense.

AWS WAF can now monetize AI bot traffic via x402: publishers set per-request prices, bots pay in USDC. Settlement runs through Coinbase's x402 Facilitator — Solana is one of the supported chains alongside Base.

The Solana week in review: RPC 2.0 ships Superbank and Cloudbreak, SpaceX shares go live tokenized on Solana, Helius acquires Light Protocol — plus Mastercard, WSOP, MetaMask, and a Raydium exploit.

Backpack Securities and Sunrise bring tokenized SpaceX shares (SPCX) to Solana — tradable the same day as the Nasdaq listing and redeemable for real shares via the regulated brokerage.

Jito reports that over 50 percent of Solana validators run the Block Assembly Marketplace (BAM). The public roadmap had previously cited 30 percent of stake as the 2026 target.

Helius acquires Light Protocol, the developers of Solana's ZK syscalls and ZK Compression. The goal is a programmable privacy layer: encrypted balances, payments, and markets — with auditability.

Mastercard launches a framework for autonomous AI agent payments via cards and stablecoins. The Solana Foundation is among 30+ launch partners alongside Coinbase, Ripple, and Polygon.

Pyth Network rolls out its own 24/7 indices for US equities, metals and oil — plus equity index futures with MarketVector. The Solana-born oracle now delivers continuous pricing outside regular market hours.

An attacker drained five pools of Raydium's AMM V3 program, retired in 2021, for about $1.34 million. Active programs are unaffected; Raydium covers the losses in full from its treasury.

Solana becomes Presenting Sponsor of the 2026 WSOP. For the first time, players can pay tournament tickets with USDC, USDT, or SOL — with zero transaction fees. Stablecoin payouts follow in December.

Jupiter's browser extension gets a ticker widget: Solana token information appears directly on websites, on X, or in AI chats — without switching tabs to a wallet or explorer.

MetaMask's Embedded Wallets SDK now supports Solana natively — built on @solana/kit, with ed25519 signing and a unified EVM-plus-Solana experience for app developers.

The Solana week in review: Mastercard adds stablecoins to settlement, Backpack launches regulated brokerage, native Subscriptions & Allowances go live — plus Jito BAM, Marinade, and more.

Marinade's dashboard now tracks any liquid staking token instead of just mSOL — with live APY and positions like hubSOL, jupSOL, and dSOL side by side.

Anza activated P-Token on Solana mainnet: a drop-in rewrite of the SPL Token program in Pinocchio with zero-copy implementation. Token instructions from epoch 971 onwards are up to 98 percent cheaper in compute units.

Jupiter unveiled Forecast — by its own account Solana's first fully native prediction market. Instead of a single pool, multiple market makers (prop-AMM) compete for the best price; markets get their own tokens.

Solana Mobile has launched a dApp Spotlight feature in the Solana dApp Store: a weekly themed carousel of hand-curated apps with curation notes and Seeker reviews.

Sunrise, Meteora, and Bedrock bring $SV151 to Solana — tokenized shares of sealed Pokémon SV151 packs, backed by audited custody. Meteora's first Dynamic Asset and an example of collectible RWAs.

Mastercard expands its settlement to regulated stablecoins on several blockchains, including Solana. This enables around-the-clock settlement — including weekends and holidays.

Helius brings SIMD-550 to Solana governance: the annual disinflation rate would rise from 15% to 30%. SOL would reach its 1.5% terminal inflation about three years earlier — and roughly 18.9 million SOL fewer would be issued.

The Solana Foundation joined the Open Transaction Layer (OTL) as a founding partner — an industry alliance for protocol standards on identity, compliance, and settlement of on-chain transactions across multiple chains.

Orca launched permissioned pools: liquidity pools on Solana where issuers of regulated assets control who can trade. The first issuer is Streamex with its tokenized gold asset GLDY.

Netrun is live on Solana mainnet as of 25 May 2026. The metaprotocol is built on Metaplex Core and targets programmable non-fungible systems, dynamic assets, and evolving digital objects.

Jupiter has announced VRFD — a token information and news layer with verified mints, multi-signal aggregation, and community contributions with human review.

The first Solana Summit Kazakhstan takes place on 22 May 2026 in Almaty. Organized by Superteam Kazakhstan, focused on real-world asset tokenization, with participants from over 30 countries.

The Solana Changelog is back. According to the dev team, the technical update format returns after a two-year pause, accompanied by a live show hosted by @readylayerone.

The Solana Foundation launches the Solana Summer School on 15 June: a ten-week program of five weeks of lessons, four weeks of capstone work, and a demo day. Open to enrolled college students worldwide.

Jupiter announced Metis V8. The new routing engine version tackles quotation-execution drift with slippage penalties, JIT on-chain finalization, sub-2-slot latency, and a rapid quotation mode.

Messari publishes its Q1 2026 Solana report: chain GDP largely flat at 342.2M dollars, RWA market cap up 43 percent to 2.01B dollars, RWA lending deposits overtake Ethereum for the first time.

Meteora has gone live with limit orders on Solana, positioning the feature as an 'edge for traders'. The launch post reads 'get paid when you trade'. The exact pay-out mechanic is covered in the accompanying launch video.

Anza published the Agave 4.0 patch notes: XDP for Turbine cuts retransmit from around 600 ms to about 0.8 ms, QUIC becomes the only TPU path, plus async verification and P-Token activation. Full mainnet rollout targeted for May 2026.

Superteam Germany announced SuperteamTalent as the official partner for Solana Summit Germany on 13 June 2026 in Berlin. The partner covers jobs and talent scouting across the Solana ecosystem.

As of 17 May 2026: full Firedancer V1 is producing blocks on Solana mainnet — on a limited set of validators, roughly 100 days and about 50,000 blocks, a deliberately gradual rollout after a 1M USD audit competition.

The Senate Banking Committee passed the CLARITY Act on 14 May 2026 in a 15-9 bipartisan vote. Bill H.R. 3633 covers SEC/CFTC jurisdiction, consumer protection, and stablecoin framework. Next step: full Senate floor vote.

Helius overhauled its exclusive RPC method getTransactionsForAddress: 10 instead of 50 credits per 100 transactions, up to 1,000 full transactions per request per the announcement. Relevant for indexers, wallet apps, and forensic tools.

Jupiter has added USDe from Ethena as a lending market on Jupiter Lend. Platform-wide TVL on DefiLlama at roughly 1.2 billion US dollars — exact USDe pool numbers are not yet broken out.

Anza released Solana Kit 6.9: fixed-point number support and a first-class Sol type enable exact decimal and binary math in JavaScript for token balances and prices without rounding errors.

Jupiter has fully overhauled its mobile app — one-tap trading, fiat onramp in under a minute, magic-scan feature, and a unified wallet interface. Update is live on App Store and Play Store.

Jito has released FireBAM: the BAM privacy stack now runs on Frankendancer validators (~12 percent mainnet stake). Audit by Asymmetric Research until end of June 2026, mainnet release in July.

Anza has activated the new consensus mechanism Alpenglow on a public community test cluster. Validators can sign up and test the protocol ahead of the mainnet rollout.

Triton One has activated HTTP/3 and QUIC on all shared-infrastructure load balancers. Lower time-to-first-byte, better packet-loss resilience, separate streams — relevant for mobile wallets and dApp frontends.

Helius Research has published Constellation as a protocol proposal for Multiple Concurrent Proposers (MCP) on Solana. Anza has published a complementary roadmap position. Overview of the mechanism and open problems.

Anza engineers Max Resnick and Sam Kim present a migration strategy for post-quantum signatures. Ed25519 and BLS must be replaced long-term by FALCON or comparable schemes.

Several asset managers have filed Solana spot ETF applications with the SEC. Overview of known filings and regulatory status.

Data tracker SolanaFloor reports Solana leading all L1 and L2 chains in weekly dApp revenue and DEX volume. What the aggregator methodology behind it means.

Solana infrastructure provider Triton One moves to prepaid billing. Low-balance alerts are designed to prevent service interruptions caused by empty accounts.

The Solana Foundation, in collaboration with Google Cloud, launched Pay.sh: an API gateway through which autonomous AI agents settle stablecoin payments for API calls, based on the open standards x402 and MPP.

Meta pays creators in Colombia and the Philippines in USDC — over Solana and Polygon, with Stripe as infrastructure. Payouts land directly in self-custody wallets like Phantom. An expansion to over 160 countries is planned.

Solana DEX aggregator Jupiter announces a Mystery Rewards program for historical user activity. Distribution runs via Mobile App and Browser Extension.

The Solana Foundation is working on RPC 2.0 — a new read layer for the Solana RPC interface. Standardization of many previous provider extensions is being pursued.

Solana Mobile's second smartphone, Chapter 2, has reached 100,000 pre-orders. Hardware with Seed Vault and Solana dApp Store.

Light Protocol and Helius Labs have activated ZK Compression on Solana mainnet. Compressed on-chain state storage with zero-knowledge proofs as a standard for token accounts and cNFTs.