Solana Weekly Recap (August 16, 2026): BlackRock and Bitwise, MoneyGram Rails, a Lesson in Resilience

Three lines shaped the week: the Wall Street track got more institutional — BlackRock and Bitwise are now both working on tokenized fund structures on Solana. The payments track got more everyday — MoneyGram opens its cash network as an API. And a routing failure at a single hosting provider delivered the best real-world test of the consensus arithmetic so far. We summarize and link our full coverage for each.

Institutions and RWA

BlackRock files for tokenized fund shares: The reserve fund BRSRV is to be recorded on-chain via Securitize — including on Solana; designed as a reserve building block for stablecoin issuers. A filing, not a launch. → Full story
Bitwise explores tokenized ETF shares: A framework with Superstate would let BSOL shares optionally live on-chain — same rights, not freely transferable, no assurance of a launch. → Full story
The regulated franc arrived: BaFin-licensed e-money institute AllUnity brought CHFAU to Solana — its first non-EVM chain, nearly 50 million francs in circulation, B2B focus. → Full story
NBIS and SILV extend the series: The tokenized Nebius stock arrived as the fourth single name, tokenized silver as the first commodity class — with SILV’s physical redemption not yet active. → NBIS · SILV
Structured credit logic: Solstice launched strcUSX with senior and junior tranches on Strategy’s preferred stock STRC — the junior side absorbs first losses. → Full story

Payments

MoneyGram Ramps is live: Cash deposits in over 25 countries, payouts in over 170 — as one API in the Developer Platform’s payments module, with the Rift wallet as first integrator. → Full story

Network and Infrastructure

Lesson of the week: A routing failure at TeraSwitch took around 90 validators with ~28.8 percent of stake offline for a good 30 minutes. Blocks and finality ran through — the 33.34 percent threshold was never reached. What remains: concentration on single providers is real. → Full story
300ms slots on testnet: The second stage of the slot time reduction is running; epochs shrink to roughly 36 hours. → Full story with updates
Migration deadline for data pipelines: Old Faithful shipped compact indexes; the legacy formats end at epoch 1020 — expected around August 21. → Full story
tokens.xyz is open source: The Foundation published the full codebase of the canonical asset registry — roughly 20 API endpoints included. → Full story with update

Trading and DeFi

Jupiter builds twice: Lend v2 meshes lending deposits with router liquidity (Smart Vaults), and Loop USD* launched on Offerbook — leveraged fixed-rate positions without price-based liquidations. → Lend v2 · Offerbook with update
Coinbase goes on-chain: The exchange’s first own production smart contract on Solana is a DEX aggregator by the Vector team — with 99.9 percent routability, per its own figures. → Full story

Data and DevTools

SQL for Solana data: Coinbase’s CDP SQL API makes token transfers queryable via SQL — no own indexer required. → Full story
Anchor v2 at release candidate: Solana’s main program framework was rebuilt on Pinocchio — test yes, migrate not yet. → Full story

Ecosystem

Solana School: The fall class runs August 31 to October 16 — seven hands-on weeks with a demo day oriented toward Colosseum; applications open. → Full story
Seeker Summer round 3 ended on August 12; the quest phase is complete. → Full story with updates

Deeper Reading

Tokenized Stocks (xStocks) on Solana — the basics behind NBIS, SILV, and co.
Solana Fees Explained — the mechanics behind the ongoing tokenomics debate
Alpenglow: Solana’s New Consensus Explained — where the latency work is heading

Sources

Primary sources are listed in each linked individual report.
Solana — solana.com/news
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