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Samsung Wallet Opens USDC on Solana to 82 Million US Galaxy Devices

The stablecoin account is live for eligible US Galaxy owners, with Solana carrying transfers. Samsung planned October; accounts give 2 or 5 November.

· 6 Nov 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

JPMorgan's MONY and JLTXX Tokenized Funds Go Live on Solana

Two tokenized money market funds pick up a second blockchain, ten months after the first went live on Ethereum. Access stays shut to everyone but qualified US investors.

· 23 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Solana's Alpenglow Switch Completes, 446 of 654 Validators Certify

The handover took about 900 milliseconds and validator votes now sit off chain. The 150ms finality figure is still a target; no account reports a measured result.

· 22 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Solana Sets Slot 459,653,000 as the Moment TowerBFT Retires

Anza fixed Alpenglow's mainnet handoff to a block height, not a clock. The accounts disagree on when that slot lands and on what a vote costs today.

· 21 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Solana ETFs Break a 14-Week Inflow Run as Ether Funds Shed $542M

US spot Solana funds posted $24.8 million of weekly outflows, ending a record 14-week inflow run. Ether ETFs lost $542.1 million, their worst week since January.

· 11 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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DeFi

Securitize Opens Trading in 12 Tokenized US Stocks on Solana

Each token is backed one-for-one by a real share and settles in USDC. Four accounts of Thursday's launch give four different lists of stocks.

· 8 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Solana Opens an MIT-Licensed Settlement Program for Institutions

Solana's new DvP program settles a tokenized asset and its payment in one transaction. J.P. Morgan contributed input and disclaimed everything beyond it.

· 6 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Alpenglow Goes Live on Solana's Devnet With a 150ms Finality Target

Anza retired TowerBFT on the developer cluster on Friday evening, the second public test network to switch. Nothing published this week sets a mainnet date.

· 26 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

ZetaChain Votes 99.4% to Retire Its Layer 1 and Move ZETA to Solana

Proposal 68 passed with 58% turnout. ZETA becomes a Solana token one-for-one, and a second vote will set the snapshot and the shutdown block.

· 21 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Solana Cuts Slot Time to 250ms at Epoch 1037, Capacity Flat

The third of four staged cuts under SIMD-0525 landed Friday morning. Each slot carries proportionally less compute, so throughput does not move.

· 18 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Solana Sets 9 September for Transaction V1 and a 4,096-Byte Limit

The opt-in format lifts the transaction ceiling from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 and drops Address Lookup Tables. Legacy transactions keep working unchanged.

· 5 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Bitcoin ETFs Snap a Nine-Day Run With a $202 Million Outflow

US spot bitcoin funds shed about $202 million on Friday, ending nine sessions of inflows worth $3.04 billion. Ether, XRP and Solana funds kept buying.

· 30 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read