Solana Weekly News

Top Solana Stories Of The Week Insane week. Ansem's memecoin The Black Bull rips to $100M in 24 hours, reviving the trenches. World launches Solana-native prediction market powered by Chainlink right before the FIFA World Cup. Open Standard unveils $OUSD stablecoin backed by BlackRock, Google, Visa, Stripe, and 140+ partners, launching on Solana Day One. Grass farmers furious with Stage 2 USDC...

Backpack and Sunrise list tokenized Micron ($MU) on Solana for 24/7 trading right ahead of earnings — then we run Solana’s report card against Galaxy’s Q1 critique. Bitcoin drops to its lowest level since October 2024 as $1.2B is liquidated and fears mount over Strategy’s $STRC traders and investors are wondering if this is the bottom? Plus Arcium launches $ARX to a mixed community reaction, Solan...

Solana records its biggest tokenized equity day ever with $212M in daily volume, as Ondo lists 173 new stocks and ETFs and the SpaceX IPO aftermath continues. Forward Industries gets rejected for the third time in its rollup attempt on the Solana treasury sector, this time by Solana Company. Collector Crypt airdrops $4M following $4M weekly revenue ATH, now outpacing all competing TCG marketplaces...

It's IPO day. SpaceX lists on Nasdaq at $135 per share in the largest IPO in history, and tokenized $SPCX starts trading on Solana the very same day. We're joined by Saeed Badreg, CEO of Wormhole Labs and the team behind Sunrise, to break down how a real, redeemable SpaceX share ends up in your Solana wallet, why Solana captured 97.3% of all tokenized equity volume in May, and whether Anth...

Top Solana Stories Of The Week: A brutal week. $5.56B liquidated as Michael Saylor breaks his "never sell" promise. Zcash collapses 40% on a 4-year-old cryptographic vulnerability. Arthur Hayes calls the top on $HYPE and exits with $18M as retail copy traders eat the dump, but within the Solana ecosystem, Helius engineer formalizes SIMD-0550 to make $SOL potentially deflationary, Andrew Yang's Nob...

This Week In the SolanFloor newsroom: Solana's Frontier Hackathon just became the largest crypto hackathon in history — 2,857 submissions across 108 countries. Pump.fun went multichain. SIMD-0525 could double validator voting costs and the Foundation wants to skip a governance vote. Solana is outpacing Hyperliquid in foreign token spot volume. Collector Crypt hit $1B in cumulative volume. And Sols...

This week in the SolanaFloor newsroom: Citadel increased its Solana exposure by 760% in Q1. $USDe supply on Solana surged 17,137% in a single week. SpaceX is targeting the biggest IPO in history and Solana DeFi users have been trading $SPACEX since September. The inflation debate is back with Mert calling out validators. Pump.fun drops $SOL pairings from May 21. And GMTrade crosses $40M TVL as the...

This week in the SolanaFloor newsroom: Solana's perps sector is finally showing signs of life, with Phoenix and GMTrade hit all-time highs in daily volume. The CLARITY Act clears the Senate Banking Committee and heads to the floor with 71% odds of passing in 2026. Alpenglow logs a 100x finality gain in its first community cluster test. Plus: Bitwise comes onchain via Jupiter, Sanctum hits a re...

Top Solana Stories Of The WeekApril 2026 was crypto's worst hacking month ever — $635M lost. But Solana kept building. This week: the Solana Foundation made history with its first-ever cross-chain capital deployment, Jito shipped infrastructure that could change how every trade on Solana gets executed, Meta chose Solana for creator payments, and the RWA ecosystem just hit a $2.5B all-time high...

This week in the SolanaFloor newsroom: KelpDAO loses $290M to Lazarus Group as contagion hits Solana lending rates, Tether's USDT supply on Solana surges 16% in 7 days as Circle loses community trust. Plus, Polymarket and Kalshi enter the perps arena while Solana remains sidelined, Toly challenges hackers to crack his immutable app for a 5 SOL prize, and Singapore's 88 year old OCBC tokenizes a $5...

This week in the SolanaFloor newsroom: Tether steps up with a $150M Drift recovery plan as Circle faces fierce backlash for refusing to freeze stolen funds, the SEC delivers a landmark ruling giving DeFi apps the green light on broker-dealer registration, Solana records $1.1T in Q1 economic activity, a new all-time high. Jump Crypto's research shows Solana PropAMMs outperform CEXes in 99.3% of...

This week in the SolanaFloor newsroom, Finn and Thomas Bahamas break down the Solana Foundation's sweeping new security standard launched in the wake of the $285M Drift exploit, the explosive growth of tokenized pre-IPO trading on Solana crossing $544M in volume, and why trading terminal volume has collapsed to its lowest point since September 2023. We also cover Titan Exchange's bold claim of 4x...