Thierry Grillon

Solana keeps shipping 🚢🚢🚢 This week we welcomed back the biggest startup competition in crypto, as Solana builders entered the arena for @Colosseum’s Cypherpunk Hackathon, competing for $2.5M in prizes and funding. We’ve got you covered with more Solana highlights from last week: - The National Bank of Kazakhstan launched the first tenge-backed KZTE stablecoin on Solana, in partnership with Mastercard, Intebix, and Eurasian Bank - @OSLdotcom rolled out USDC and USDT deposits and withdrawals on Solana - @ParallelColony early access is now exclusively available on the @solanamobile Seeker for the next 3 months - @0xfluid announced their expansion into the Solana ecosystem - @louisamira announced that ATXP is live with Solana support - @raikucom announced a $13.5MM raise, led by @PanteraCapital - @meleemarkets announced a $3.5M pre-seed raise led by @variantfund and @dba_crypto - Stablecoin supply on Solana reached a new ATH of $13.44 billion (h/t @Defillama for the data) - @dflow and founder @niteshnath introduced just-in-time (JIT) Routing, a zero-to-one mechanism that optimizes trade routes during transaction execution so Solana users and traders get better rates - The Solana Accelerate APAC tour was introduced and is coming to Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Shenzhen this October - @bulktrade raised an $8M seed round led by @robotventures & @6thManVentures to accelerate perps trading on Solana - The total value of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) on Solana surged to $671M, a new all-time high (source: @rwa_xyz) - You can now register and use your very own .sol name to send and receive funds directly in @MetaMask thanks to @sns - The Jump Firedancer team proposed SIMD-0370, which would remove Solana’s fixed compute unit block limit after Alpenglow, eliminating static caps on block limits and having validators skip blocks they can’t process in time. - @altitude went live and is available for businesses in 150+ countries, giving businesses access to USD/EUR accounts, treasury management with yield, and cross-border payments, all powered by Solana Many thanks to all of you continuing to push Solana forward through sheer effort. It doesn’t go unnoticed. Shout below if we missed something you shipped. We’ll see you next week and at @SolanaConf Breakpoint Abu Dhabi in just a few months 🫡

Introducing the Solana Cypherpunk Hackathon, powered by @Colosseum! 🌏An online, global Solana hackathon 🏁Product submissions due by October 30, 2025 🏆Colosseum’s fund to invest $2.5 million in winners Join crypto’s biggest startup competition: colosseum.com/cypherpunk