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🚨BREAKING BIG: Alpenglow, @Solana’s biggest consensus upgrade in history, is set to go live on mainnet October 21, targeting 150ms finality, roughly 85× faster than the current 12.8 seconds.
the token supercyle has a home and it's on solana
The tokenization supercycle on @Solana is real.
xStocks has crossed $7.5B in volume on Solana.
Now with 800K+ holders and 1,000+ assets tokenized assets we will continue to scale assets, integrations, and global access together.
The world’s largest phone maker is putting Solana in its wallet. Samsung Wallet is getting USDC cross-border payments, BNY opened SOL custody, Securitize brought U.S. stocks onchain, and blocks got 2x faster underneath.
Here’s everything that shipped:
📰 Headline News
- Samsung partnered with Solana to bring USDC cross-border payments via Samsung Wallet
- 200ms slot targets went live on Solana mainnet-beta, completing @anza_xyz’s SIMD-0525 rollout
- @SolanaFndn launched Solana DvP, open-source delivery-versus-payment settlement for institutions, built with input from J.P. Morgan
- BNY expanded its digital asset custody to the EU under MiCA, offering institutional custody for SOL
- @Securitize launched Securitize Stocks on Solana, bringing 1:1 share-backed U.S. equities onchain
- @orca_so and @Loopscale combined as @formation_so, putting issuance, trading and credit on one set of rails
📰 Launches
- @kamino launched the Apyx Market, enabling USDC borrowing and leveraged yield strategies against preferred equity-backed apyUSD
- @MarinadeFinance launched Marinade Borrow, enabling users to borrow USDC or SOL directly against staked SOL without unstaking
- @DGLD_Official brought MKS PAMP’s tokenized gold, available to 1M+ @SwissBorg users with @ArrakisFinance liquidity
- @AgantFinance made its institutional-grade pound sterling stablecoin GBPA available on Solana
- @Helium partnered with grocery co-op Wakefern Food Corp to offload carrier cellular traffic onto Wi-Fi
- @MeteoraAG unveiled DLMM Pro with fully customizable market configurations for token launches
- @sanctumso shipped swSOL, a wrapped SOL asset
- @nansen_ai previewed autonomous AI agents that research and execute onchain trades
- @ZetaChain demonstrated Anuma Nearby, which uses private AI memory to connect people nearby
- @grass debuted its Contents API, turning any public URL into clean, model-ready text for AI agents
- @PayAINetwork and @BlockRunAI shipped batch @x402 payments on Solana to settle multiple API calls in a single transaction
- @altitude integrated Altitude Accounting with Xero for direct transaction ledger mapping
- $EWZ ETF and $RACE shares went live on Solana via @sunrise, issued by @Backpack Securities
- $WLD, $SHIB, and $VVV went live on Solana via @sunrise
- @backabledotbiz launched Backable, a frontier fundraising platform built by @MetaDAOProject
- @scoutfinance_ launched its social investing app on iOS and Android
- @DualMintRWA tokenized a fleet of 200 physical claw machines on Solana
- @comicbookhq launched its DC Comics collectibles gacha machine featuring vintage and modern grails
- @MapleMarketApp introduced tokenized Canadian maple syrup on Solana powered by @BAXUSco and @SuperteamCAN
- @2WA_Official launched the first market-neutral fund built on USDGO, live for professional investors in Hong Kong via @osldotcom
- @SolanaFndn released Microscope, an open-source monitoring and alerting tool for Solana programs and Squads multisigs
- @jtx_trade revealed plans for a mobile app alongside equities and perps trading features
- @galileowilson won @joinfrontier’s Singapore edition and heads to finale at Breakpoint, with a Porsche 911 GT3 RS on the line
- @TrustWallet expanded its 0% swap fee campaign on Solana to cover SOL, wSOL, and five stablecoins
- @USDC Bridge added Solana support, enabling direct USDC transfers between Solana and 18 ecosystems
📰 Milestones
- Stablecoin-holding addresses on Solana topped a record 14M
- Solana hit 1.88M daily active addresses, a 13-month high
- Stablecoin card spend on Solana crossed $1B all-time
- Solana’s tokenized equities have grown to over 2,000 products
- @leaps_finance crossed $100K in options sold during its beta, paying sellers upfront yield on SOL, cbBTC, and USDC
- @ImperialPerps’ ARMADA prop AMM surpassed $14.1M in notional volume in 7 days
- @hylo_so crossed $44M in combined open interest across $xSOL, $xBTC, and $xHYPE
- @xStocksFi hit $2.4B in monthly volume, up 28x year over year
35 DAYS TILL BREAKPOINT
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JUST IN: Batch payments are live for @x402 on Solana via @PayAINetwork and @BlockRunAI
An agent opens a payment channel, makes as many payments as it needs, and settles once onchain using x402.
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We've shipped batch @x402 payments with @PayAINetwork and @SolanaFndn on Solana. Now pay for multiple model calls with a single USDC transaction, reducing gas fees and streamlining your agent's workflow. 🏎️
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🚨BREAKING: SOLANA HITS $1 BILLION IN ALL-TIME STABLECOIN CARD VOLUME!!!🚨
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Until now, institutions settling onchain have typically relied on bespoke smart contracts.
Solana DvP gives them a shared, open standard for atomic delivery-versus-payment, with input from J.P. Morgan on securities settlement practices 🧵
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LATEST: ⚡️ The Solana Foundation launched Solana DvP, an open-source escrow program that aims to let institutions settle trades in a single atomic transaction, with input from JPMorgan.
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🚨 JUST IN: Bitcoin holds between $84,600 and $84,890 as bulls defend key support, with $85,000 now standing between BTC and another run at $87,000.
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