Solana@solana
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
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