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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Solana Cuts Slot Time to 350ms, Its First Reduction Since Genesis

SIMD-0525 took Solana's target slot from 400 to 350 milliseconds in epoch 1020. Three more 50ms cuts are staged, each needing a fresh validator supermajority.

· 25 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Solana Raises Its Block Compute Limit 66% to 100M Units

Solana lifted its maximum block compute budget from 60 million units to 100 million at epoch 1009, a 66% capacity increase that left slot timing untouched.

· 29 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Solana's Validator Admission Ticket Goes Live on Mainnet

Solana now drops validators without a registered BLS key from the leader schedule. About 3.87% of stake was still unregistered at epoch 1004.

· 22 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Firedancer v1.1.0 Reaches Testnet as the Agave 4.3 Branch Opens

Solana's independent validator client hit testnet at v1.1.0 on July 16, the same week Agave opened its 4.3 branch, the release set to carry Alpenglow.

· 16 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read