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Big week. Let's get into it: enterprise-grade developer tooling with global payment giants already building, a protocol upgrade delivering the fastest economic tick rate of any network, and dominance across tokenized equity volume, RWA lending, and developer count. 📰 Headline News - @anza_xyz introduced Constellation, giving Solana multiple concurrent proposers and the fastest economic tick rate of any network. - @SolanaFndn shipped Solana Developer Platform for enterprise, bundling 20+ infra providers into AI-ready APIs - Solana surpassed Ethereum in RWA lending deposits, reaching $1.2B to lead the category - @colosseum announced the Solana Frontier Hackathon and debuted Copilot, a skill turning agents into startup experts 📰 Launches - @Loopscale released PRISM to aggregate RWA settlement liquidity, starting with Apollo’s ACRED fund - Solana added Machine Payments Protocol @mpp support - @orca_so launched Vaults powered by @kamino, offering automated liquidity yield strategies - @PhoenixTrade activated referral codes, enabling users to earn fees on invited trader volume - @hinkal_protocol brought Hinkal Pay to Solana, unlocking ZK-powered payment privacy - @zerion added real-time PnL tracking for Solana traders - @mayan shipped Mayan 2.0 with faster cross-chain movement - @Predictefy opened its public beta for cross-platform prediction market arbitrage and tracking - @Loopscale hosted the first credit market denominated in Brazilian Real - @UmbraPrivacy opened its public TestFlight on iOS - @sanctumso launched its app on @solanamobile - @MoonPay open-sourced a wallet standard for AI agents, backed by 15+ contributors including Solana - @KASTxyz released the @pudgypenguins Pengu Card, enabling spending at 150M+ merchants globally - @LightProtocol unveiled the Light Token SDK, reducing Solana ATA fees to $0.001 - @FlashTrade listed natural gas market with up to 10x leverage - @SuperteamTalent kicked off the Talent Tour 2026 to recruit top-tier builders - @ThePortMiami announced Ship Week V3 in Miami from May 4-10 - @Quicknode MPP added USDC payments on Solana support - @sns enabled .sol identity on @notdotmarket, bringing readable addresses to onchain trading - @playsolana premiered the first Gaming dApp Store on the PSG1 - @CaptchaApp launched a social platform with a model to eliminate social slop - @SolanaEvents revealed the first set of speakers for Accelerate USA - @_alphaarena enabled AI agents to compete in chess and poker matches with USDC via x402 - @fittedcloset announced partnerships with @Taskrabbit and @accuweather 📰 Milestones - Solana RWA holders reached a record 176K - @Backpack’s token reached $10M volume in 24 hours of its TGE - @worldlibertyfi’s USD1 supply on Solana surged 5x to $855M in two months - @Sunrise_DeFi processed $545M in 30-day volume - Solana settled ~94% of all-time onchain tokenized equity spot volume to date - @PlayBabylon clocked 490K trades across 1,171 agents within five days of its debut - Solana ranked #1 in all-time unique developers with over 10K builders - @onrefinance market on @kamino crossed $100M in market size If you enjoyed this week’s newsletter, please share it with an RT. Artwork by @ScubaSteveArt

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Extending Solana's Network Performance to the Edge @doublezero is live with DZDP Phase II and introducing a new revenue stream for validators through the shred economy Join us today at 1pm ET to hear how it works 👇

"Bitcoin is the asset. Solana is the infrastructure. It's financial infrastructure for the internet" - @calilyliu, @SolanaFndn

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IT'S A BIG DAY! The @SuperteamNG Community Call is happening today!!! Thursday, February 05, 2026 ◽Time: 5 PM UTC/ 6 PM WAT Venue: x.com/SuperteamNG & YouTube @SuperteamNigeria youtube.com/channel/UCJ7t_… You don’t wanna miss this!!!

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It has been a busy couple of months, from building @SnappQuest, to brainstorming with the @VerseEcosystem community, helping organize the SnappQuest × Verse X Spaces, and hosting custom quests for the Verse community. I’m honored to be recognized as a High-Impact Role Model.

On February 11th, the stars of @solana will shine on Hong Kong 🇭🇰

Fund your YC startup onchain with USDC on Solana. Solana Foundation is committed to build with the next generation of YC founders, stay tuned for more info on resources.