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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.

An attacker exploited an outdated version of a Rain card contract and drained card balances of 1,685 Avici users totaling roughly $500,000.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.

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.

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.

Brennan Watt has published SIMD-0525 in the repository — Solana's slot time would drop from 400 ms to 200 ms in four steps. Status currently Draft, four feature gates defined, vote costs double by end of rollout.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Drift Protocol reports progress on its relaunch after the exploit: a recovery pool for user losses, Noah Prince (ex-Helium) as Head of Protocol, and a Mandiant analysis attributing the attack to the group UNC6862.

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.