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Solana Weekly Recap (19 July 2026): x402 Becomes a Standard, SBI Bets on Solana, Alpenglow Nears Mainnet

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.

July 19, 2026

Infrastructure

Anza Opens Alpenglow Bug Bounty — a Security Step Before Mainnet

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.

July 17, 2026

Ecosystem

Google Cloud and Solana Foundation Launch Agentic-Commerce Hackathon in Korea

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.

July 17, 2026

DeFi

Jito Announces JTX — a Self-Custody Trading Platform for Solana

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.

May 5, 2026 Updated on July 14, 2026

Infrastructure

x402 Becomes an Open Standard: Linux Foundation Launches x402 Foundation With 40 Members

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.

July 14, 2026

Ecosystem

SBI Holdings Pivots Blockchain Initiative to Solana — JV for Stablecoins and Tokenization

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.

July 13, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana Weekly Recap (12 July 2026): One Billion Transactions, Epoch 1000, BonkDAO Attack and FullSend

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.

July 12, 2026

DeFi

Backpack Launches Regulated Stock Brokerage With Tokenization on Solana

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

June 3, 2026 Updated on July 11, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana Mainnet Reaches 1,000 Epochs — Official Celebration With Wallet Checker

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.

July 10, 2026

Infrastructure

Privy and Jito Ship FullSend: More Reliable Transaction Landing on Solana

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.

July 9, 2026

Security

BonkDAO Loses Around $20 Million to a Malicious Governance Proposal

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.

July 6, 2026

Infrastructure

Over 1 Billion Transactions in a Week for the First Time: Solana Sets Usage Record

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.

July 6, 2026

Ecosystem

Breakpoint 2026 Comes to London: Solana's Flagship Conference in Europe for the First Time

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).

July 6, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana Weekly Recap (5 July 2026): Onchain Governance, Agave v4.1, World in Phantom and Velocity

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.

July 5, 2026

Security

Drift posts recovery update: relaunch, new security leadership, and Mandiant attribution

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.

June 4, 2026 Updated on July 2, 2026

Infrastructure

Solana Launches Onchain Governance: Validators Vote on SGPs

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.

July 1, 2026

Ecosystem

World: Onchain Prediction Market Launches on Solana — Integrated Directly into Phantom

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.

July 1, 2026

Infrastructure

Agave v4.1 Recommended for Mainnet Validators — Setting the Stage for Alpenglow

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.

June 29, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana Weekly Recap (28 June 2026): MoneyGram Validator, Allfunds Funds, Frontier Hackathon and Raydium

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.

June 28, 2026

DeFi Developing

Raydium Reports $2B in Tokenized Equities Volume on Solana

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.

June 4, 2026 Updated on June 27, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana Frontier Hackathon: Colosseum Names CrowdBrain Grand Champion

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.

June 26, 2026

DeFi

Allfunds Brings Tokenized Funds to Solana — a €1.8 Trillion Platform Opens an RWA Lane

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.

June 23, 2026

Infrastructure

MoneyGram Becomes a Solana Validator and Joins the Solana Developer Platform

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.

June 22, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana Weekly Recap (21 June 2026): Moody's, AWS x402, Ondo and SpaceX Record Volume

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.

June 21, 2026

NFT Developing

Tokenized Trading Cards Boom on Solana — Collector Crypt Tops $1 Billion

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.

June 21, 2026

Infrastructure

Solana's RPC 2.0 Gets Concrete: Superbank and Cloudbreak as Open-Source Modules

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.

June 12, 2026 Updated on June 19, 2026

DeFi Developing

Tokenized Stocks: $4.3B in 30 Days — SpaceX Token Drives Record on Solana

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.

June 18, 2026

Infrastructure

Moody's Brings Credit Ratings to Solana — Its First Major Public Blockchain

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.

June 17, 2026

DeFi

Ondo Expands Tokenized-Stock Catalog Past 430 Assets — Solana Among the Chains

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.

June 17, 2026

Infrastructure

AWS Lets Publishers Charge AI Bots in Stablecoins — x402 on Solana and Base

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.

June 15, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana Week in Review (June 14, 2026): RPC 2.0, Tokenized SpaceX Stock, and Privacy

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.

June 14, 2026

DeFi

SpaceX Stock Tokenized on Solana — on the Day of Its Nasdaq Debut

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.

June 12, 2026

Infrastructure Developing

Jito: More Than 50 Percent of Solana Validators Run BAM

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.

June 5, 2026 Updated on June 11, 2026

Infrastructure

Helius Acquires Light Protocol for an Onchain Privacy Layer on Solana

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.

June 10, 2026

Infrastructure

Mastercard Launches Agent Pay for Machines — Solana Foundation Is a Launch Partner

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.

June 10, 2026

Infrastructure

Pyth Launches 24/7 Indices for US Equities, Metals and Oil

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.

June 10, 2026

Security

Raydium: $1.34M Exploit in Retired Legacy Pools — Treasury Covers Losses in Full

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.

June 10, 2026

Ecosystem

World Series of Poker: Tournament Buy-Ins With Crypto on Solana

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.

June 10, 2026

DeFi

Jito's Maker Priority Plugin Goes Live on Solana Exchange Archer

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.

June 9, 2026

DeFi

Jupiter Wallet Extension Shows Token Prices Directly in the Browser

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.

June 9, 2026

Infrastructure

MetaMask Embedded Wallets Add Native Solana Support

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.

June 9, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana Week in Review, Early June 2026: Payments, RWAs, and Tokenization

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.

June 9, 2026

DeFi

Marinade Expands Dashboard to Track Any Liquid Staking Token

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.

June 5, 2026

Infrastructure

P-Token: Anza's SPL Token rewrite saves up to 98 percent CU

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.

May 13, 2026 Updated on June 4, 2026

DeFi

Jupiter launches Forecast: a native prediction-market model on Solana

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.

June 4, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana dApp Store: New dApp Spotlight Carousel for Better App Discovery

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.

June 4, 2026

Ecosystem

$SV151: tokenized Pokémon packs as a Dynamic Asset on Solana

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.

June 4, 2026

Infrastructure

Mastercard Adds Stablecoin Settlement on Solana and Other Chains

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

June 3, 2026

Infrastructure

SIMD-550: Solana Proposal Aims to Cut SOL Inflation Twice as Fast

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.

June 2, 2026

Infrastructure

Solana gets native subscriptions and allowances on mainnet

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.

June 2, 2026

Ecosystem Developing

SIMD-0411: proposal to double SOL's disinflation rate under discussion

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.

May 31, 2026

Infrastructure

Solana Foundation joins Open Transaction Layer as founding partner

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.

May 29, 2026

DeFi

Jupiter Offerbook enters public beta — peer-to-peer credit with fixed rates and no liquidations

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.

May 27, 2026

DeFi

Orca introduces permissioned pools for regulated real-world assets on Solana

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.

May 27, 2026

Infrastructure

Tokens Assets API now open to all builders — asset normalization for Solana apps

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.

May 27, 2026

Infrastructure

Netrun launches mainnet: metaprotocol for programmable and evolving on-chain assets

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.

May 25, 2026

DeFi

Jupiter Launches VRFD: Token Verification and Community Layer for Solana

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

May 15, 2026 Updated on May 22, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana Summit Kazakhstan: first Solana summit in Central Asia, in Almaty

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.

May 22, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana Changelog returns — live show after a two-year hibernation

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.

May 21, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana Summer School 2026: ten-week program for students starts 15 June

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.

May 21, 2026

DeFi

Jupiter ships Metis V8: routing engine targets the gap between quote and fill

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.

May 20, 2026

Market

Messari State of Solana Q1 2026: chain GDP at 342M dollars, RWA market cap at 2B

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.

May 20, 2026

DeFi

Meteora launches on-chain limit orders on Solana

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.

May 20, 2026

Infrastructure

Agave 4.0: XDP Turbine, QUIC-only TPU and P-Token in the mainnet upgrade candidate

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.

May 19, 2026

Ecosystem

Superteam Germany names SuperteamTalent official partner of Solana Summit Germany

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.

May 19, 2026

DeFi

Raydium launches CLMM Maker Suite: limit orders, dynamic and single-sided fees

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.

May 18, 2026

Infrastructure

Firedancer V1 Live on Solana Mainnet — Gradual Rollout, Frankendancer Stays the Broad Hybrid

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.

March 20, 2026 Updated on May 17, 2026

Regulation

US Senate Banking Committee Advances Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in 15-9 Vote

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.

May 15, 2026

Infrastructure

Helius Cuts getTransactionsForAddress Cost by 80 Percent, Raises Limit to 1,000 Transactions

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.

May 15, 2026

DeFi Developing

Jupiter Lend Lists Ethena USDe as New Lending Market

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.

May 15, 2026

Infrastructure Developing

SIMD-0525: Anza Proposes Staged Reduction of Solana Slot Time to 200 ms

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.

May 15, 2026

Infrastructure

Solana Kit 6.9 Adds Fixed-Point Numbers and a First-Class Sol Type

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.

May 15, 2026

DeFi

Jupiter Releases Redesigned Mobile App With One-Tap Trading and Onramp

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.

May 14, 2026

Infrastructure

Jito FireBAM: BAM live on Frankendancer in testnet

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.

May 13, 2026

Infrastructure

Anza activates Alpenglow on community test cluster

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.

May 12, 2026

Infrastructure

Triton activates HTTP/3 and QUIC on Solana RPCs

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.

May 12, 2026

Infrastructure

Constellation: Multi-Proposer Proposal for Solana Block Construction

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.

April 16, 2026 Updated on May 11, 2026

Security

Anza Outlines Quantum-Resistance Roadmap for Solana

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.

May 11, 2026

Regulation Developing

Solana ETFs: Status of SEC Applications

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

March 18, 2026 Updated on May 11, 2026

Market

Solana Leads L1/L2 Comparison for dApp Revenue and DEX Volume — SolanaFloor Data May 2026

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.

May 11, 2026

Infrastructure

Triton One Switches RPC Billing to Prepaid

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

May 11, 2026

Infrastructure

Solana Foundation and Google Cloud launch Pay.sh — gateway for agent-to-API payments

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.

May 5, 2026

Ecosystem

Meta Pays Creators in USDC on Solana — Pilot in Colombia and the Philippines

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.

April 29, 2026

DeFi

Jupiter Launches Mystery Rewards Program with $200,000 for Active Users

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

April 16, 2026

Infrastructure

Solana Foundation Announces RPC 2.0

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.

April 16, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana Mobile Chapter 2: 100,000 Pre-Orders Reached

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

March 15, 2026

Infrastructure

ZK Compression Is Live on Solana Mainnet

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.

March 12, 2026