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This week on Solana: a UK-regulated bond fund, memory stocks, gold, and a 65-million-year-old Triceratops skull, all going onchain. Then the institutions showed up: KG Inicis, Korea's largest payment platform, signed on, and MoneyGram became a validator. 🔥 Here’s what shipped: 📰 Headline News - @BGDA_UK launched $BAGEY, the first publicly available, fully native, UK-regulated tokenized bond fund - Allfunds expanded its distribution network to Solana, bringing €1.8T in assets under administration closer to onchain rails - @MoneyGram joined the Solana Developer Platform as an infrastructure partner and went live as a network validator - Toss Bank partnered with @SolanaFndn to pilot stablecoin remittance rails for its 15M users - KG Inicis, South Korea’s largest payment platform, signed an MOU to bring Solana stablecoin payments across its 25T KRW annual merchant network - @colosseum announced the winners of the Solana Frontier Hackathon, with accelerator cohort spots to follow. 📰 Launches - @SolanaFndn launched solana.com/data, unifying core network metrics under a single open schema across nine initial providers - @Backpack Securities launched $MU, $SNDK, and $DRAM on Solana via @sunrise - @HastraFi revealed plans to expand its institutional credit primitives into US auto loans with the upcoming launch of AUTO - @Paxos’s $PAXG went live on Solana via @sunrise - Mithril, a fourth, Alpenglow-compatible validator client, launched its test network implementation with active block production capabilities - A regulated Solana ETF (SOLZ_KZ) officially listed on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) - @solsticefi introduced aiUSX, a yield product that directly finances institutional AI data center infrastructure - @Arcium’s $ARX went live on Solana alongside its Blackthorn™ for private frontier AI execution on NVIDIA GPUs - @Titan_Exchange introduced DCA, enabling fully private dollar-cost averaging routed through its DART engine - @rarible launched the Gacha Station with @Collector_Crypt, bringing graded real-world TCG and sports items onchain - @thegardendao debuted as an internet capital experiment for fans to collectively buy and preserve sports history relics - @surfcashx shipped crypto-native, uncollateralized loans that use wallet history to issue instant USDC credit - @fairscalexyz opened the waitlist for its new app that turns onchain and offchain history into a reputation score - @HoudiniSwap integrated with @jumperapp to bring private cross-chain swaps and bridging directly to Solana users - @TXODDSOfficial launched a $50k World Cup hackathon covering prediction markets, trading agents, and consumer apps - @ExponentFinance went live with Risk-Tranching primitives, launching principal protection features for @OnRefinance's ONyc vault - @cademarket announced the Cade Cup tournament with $5k+ daily prizes for World Cup predictions - @JurassicFi announced plans to tokenize Deaton, a museum-grade, 60-65% complete Triceratops skull - @swishdotcash rolled out Plug, allowing developers to integrate private Solana payments using a single line of code - @loyal_hq launched an earn routing primitive that automatically sweeps idle wallet balances into yield-bearing smart accounts - @SolanaFndn and @torqueprotocol kicked off a $25k Frontier trading campaign - @EitherwayAI deployed Agentic Mode, an open-source model that builds and maintains web3 apps from a single prompt - @packetchat debuted an encrypted private social network built for monetized interactions between users and AI agents - @getblockio upgraded its RPC infrastructure, increasing Compute Unit limits across all plans - @Helius shipped an API endpoint to let developers fetch any wallet’s exact asset balance at a historical slot or date - Solana Summit Serbia announced its Belgrade lineup, hosting 40+ global regulatory, banking, and VC speakers this summer 📰 Milestones - Solana tokenized stock volume crossed $10B all-time, with daily volume hitting a new $553M ATH - @hylo_so surpassed $500M in cumulative processed volume - @WSOP buy-ins processed on Solana via @moonpay hit $10M - @ArcherExchange_ crossed $100M in cumulative trading volume within six weeks of launch - @solflare’s Packs portal generated 10K+ pulls and ~$5M in insured TCG value in less than a week - @useKled secured a $12M, two-year data acquisition deal If you enjoyed this week’s newsletter, please share it with an RT. Cover art by @DuckzzyOG 🤝