Solana (SOL)

Massive week for Solana. Here are all the important updates from the last 7 days: – @circle minted $500M USDC on Solana in one day, pushing Solana to 10.3% of global USDC supply – @Helius passed the Alpenglow consensus upgrade and acquired Light Protocol to help build Solana’s privacy layer – @Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines, bringing autonomous payments across cards, bank accounts, and stablecoins – @Backpack launched a US-regulated brokerage for trading stocks and Solana-native tokenized assets – @Titan_Exchange started powering Solana swaps inside @MetaMask – @WSOP began accepting crypto payments on SOL for entries – @WalletConnect Pay went live on Solana for instant SOL, USDC, and USDT payments – @SolanaFndn launched Frontier Traders, a global community for top trading firms and market makers – @Arcium reached 1M+ total confidential computations – @solflare launched onchain card packs with @Collector_Crypt – @pudgypenguins brought the Vibes TCG pre-sale to Collector Crypt – @altitu

.@Solana beat every centralized exchange to market with $SPCX, and didn't experience downtime from the demand like Coinbase and Robinhood. There's no need for an apology blogpost or tweet like Binance or other crypto exchanges because multiple issuers competed to be first to market with as much depth as possible. Some made it and some didn't, but users got choices. That's competition. Decentralization isn't a philosophical touchstone, it's a feature that directly leads to better outcomes for users. Bookmark and RT this in 5 years when Solana powers the majority of global markets.

The @solanamobile team is one of the best we have ever worked with. Genuinely responsive, helpful, and collaborative. Thanks to their help and that of the @solanagaming team, we're one of the fastest-growing games this year, anywhere. Job's not finished. But we thank them!

Pretty crazy that Trump’s meme coin did $36B in a single day after launching on Solana A token that was 3 days old traded over 40% of the biggest IPO day in history

The Solana Mobile team has been super heads down, I realize it's been a while since I've shared what we've been up to. But going forward, I’ll be sharing more about what we're focused on and what I'm thinking about. We're coming up on 10 months since Seeker started shipping, and it's still wild to see how many people find real value in a purpose-built stack for crypto on their phones. Users have moved more than $8B through the Seeker economy, and our dApp store just crossed 1,000 apps. It's frankly nuts. But there's a lot more to do, on product, growth, and where SKR and Guardians go from here. First, product. PMF is about more than high-level usage and volume numbers. Real PMF is your Seeker becoming the phone you pull out whenever money's involved, because doing it anywhere else is clunkier, less secure, or just not possible. If a software wallet on any phone could do it, then the hardware isn’t doing its job. So we're focused on refining what gets us there, from our core apps and Seed Vault to dApp Spot

NBA Finals are upon us! The top grails from the top gachas 🏀 Which one are you chasing? Solana Sports SZN https://t.co/FqAgfnb3xB

Solana's read layer 2.0 is now open source: Superbank (history) and Cloudbreak (accounts), marking the end of vendor lock-in for chain access. Querying @solana should feel like calling a real database, so we built exactly that. 🟣Lightning-fast account reads with dynamic indexes from your query patterns 🟣Your own queryable copy of Solana history, with no indexing logic to write 🟣More performant than Agave, while running on commodity hardware Fork it, run it, improve it. It's yours 🌊🧵https://t.co/uvnhFjUceE