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

Not financial advice. This weekly recap summarizes publicly reported developments. Projects’ claims about their own volumes and metrics are labeled as such and not independently verified.