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@jemmmyjemm Here for the culture 💙

The space feels much quieter right now. Maybe even a little bleak to some. But this is also when you remember who you actually enjoy being around, building with, and going through all of this with. It's definitely a good time to spend more energy around people you genuinely like and care about. Little to no noise, less distraction, more signal (if and when it comes). Some may see fear and danger, but others may see opportunity and that's totally fair - that's what makes the market. Maybe what’s needed right now isn’t more noise, just more good people showing up. 💛

Inside the room at House of Sol - Allocator Forum. Mapping the future of institutional adoption on Solana. Full talks👇

Last night we celebrated Solana's 6th birthday! 🥳🕺 6 years of the chain that refused to die. The builders, members, and the believers in that room are why we're still here. 🫡

f*ck it, we ball. $FIWB

BREAKING: The SEC has formally classified SOL as a digital commodity in its new crypto asset taxonomy, alongside BTC, ETH,  and 14 other assets. SOL is not a security.

you can build literally anything on solana with just helius cli btw I built prediction markets, spot/perps dex (UI), forensic tracing, PnL tracking, an explorer, and a full wallet using nothing but this (and cf + supabase) npm i helius-cli

@SuperteamUK @solana Lfg. See you all soon!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @solana!!! 🎂 We celebrate you today in the world’s best city for raves and Bri’ish banter. 🥳🎈 See you at the party tonight… If you made the guests list. 😁

Over $30,000,000 into $BSOL so far this week. BSOL, the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF, is now the largest Solana ETF in the world. Excited more and more investors see the opportunity. Grateful to those entrusting Bitwise to steward their assets.

🚨BREAKING: Kraken just became the first crypto firm to gain access to the Fed’s core payment systems that big banks use every day. This means Kraken can settle money transfers on the same rails as traditional banks.

🚨 BIG: SOL controls 49% of Agent to Agent payments

Introducing the Metaplex App. Discover, trade and launch tokens that aren’t bundled to oblivion.

@MonkeDAO 🫡

Return to Solana NFTs.

We're building the new operating system for modern money movement. This past week, we sponsored the @CNBC Digital Finance Forum and @ivanhodl shared our vision for regulated onchain infrastructure that connects funding, tokenization, exchange and spending:

> ZAR is not AI-assisted. We don't do "copilots." Our agents are full organizational participants with identities, communication channels, and budgets.

Raise starts in around 8 hrs with @FlashTrade Raising: $334,000 Duration: 90 Days Collateral: $sFLP.1 Fixed Yield: 17.88% 🤯 (yes, FIXED. USDC.) 👇

solana remains the most usable, battle-hardened, and scalable chain in the real world payments, programmability, spot trading and soon perps and predictions as AI reduces friction for creating apps, it will emerge as the universal API for world finance

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 The US Senate has advanced a crypto market structure bill.

⚡️Solana daily active users are up from ~3M to ~5M since the start of 2026.

It's the last weekly newsletter of the year. In 2025, we accelerated, we trenched, we cried, we laughed, and we shipped. Solana delivered thousands of new products, partnerships, launches, and historic milestones. In 2026, we go faster. 📰 Headline News - @phantom prediction markets opened for all eligible users powered by @dflow and @Kalshi - @solflare introduced zero-fee prediction markets - @SolanaFndn released Kora for fees paid in any token - @Sunrise_DeFi opened issuer applications to bring assets to Solana with day-one liquidity 📰 Launches - @TryNoahAI released V2 featuring X402 payments on Solana - @theprivacycash enabled private ZEC transfers on Solana - @OpenEden_X launched cUSDO, a treasury-backed stablecoin - @colosseum revealed its 4th accelerator cohort - @cuemarket debuted pop culture prediction markets - @bandsdotfun enabled users to launch their own Creator ETFs - @IndexifyApp opened its public beta for creating and trading asset "Stacks" - @Orb_Markets added tracking for DeFi and prediction market positions - @fundamental_fi went live to track real, verifiable DeFi yields - @deplaydotfun enabled Telegram users to buy or gift Solana tokens via Telegram Stars - @mert shipped a nifty Solana price tracking app 📰 Milestones - @Figure’s PRIME market deposits on @kamino surpassed $130M - Tokenized stock value on Solana hit a new all-time high of ~$185M - Solana ETFs saw 15 consecutive days of inflows, crossing $766M total - @orogoldapp grew to 5K+ GOLD holders - @xStocksFi tokenized Tesla equity (TSLAx) exceeded $50M value on Solana - RWA holders on Solana surpassed 123K See you next year.

txs in 2025: Solana: ~35B Ethereum: ~550M Users paid roughly $10M in gas fees for ~35B transactions on Solana, while paying around $1.5B on Ethereum for ~60x fewer transactions