Tagged: solana

September 21, 2026 @ 11:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ZetaChain token holders have approved a major strategic shift that will eventually retire the project’s independent Layer 1 blockchain and relocate the ZETA token to Solana. Proposal 68 passed on September 20, 2026, with 99.4 percent support, 0.3 percent opposition, and 0.3 percent abstentions. Turnout… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 6:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana (SOL) came close to losing transaction finality on August 12 after a routing failure at infrastructure provider Teraswitch briefly took validators representing nearly 29 percent of staked SOL offline. Blocks kept being produced, and the offline share stayed several points below the level that… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stablecoins are beginning to rewrite the playbook for global remittances, a market that has operated on aging infrastructure for decades. A Solana Foundation report argues that digital dollars on high-throughput blockchains can cut costs, speed settlement, and expand access in ways traditional money-transfer rails have… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 11:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin, Etheruem, Solana, other digital assets briefly advanced after August US inflation figures arrived close to forecasts, then slipped again over the weekend as trading thinned. BTC, ETH, SOL and many smaller tokens rose Friday when markets judged that the Consumer Price Index did not… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 8:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A fight over Robinhood Chain’s fee design has moved past a two-person argument and now includes voices from Solana, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain. The issue is no longer only how much a single transfer costs. It is who should earn money from network activity, and… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

StonkFun’s latest announcement seemingly served as the starting point for the weekend rally in STONK tokens. On Saturday the project posted that the launchpad is live on Raydium LaunchLab and that every new token will now be issued through that rail. The team listed three… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 3:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi Development Corp. (NASDAQ: DFDV), the firm that has built its balance sheet around accumulating Solana, has outlined plans for a new preferred-stock raise aimed at expanding that treasury. The company said it intends to offer up to $20 million of Variable Rate Series C… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 3:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana’s (SOL) first binding on-chain governance process ended with a razor-thin decision on token issuance. After days of stake-weighted voting, validators and delegators approved SGP-0002, the so-called Double Disinflation measure, by a margin of roughly one-third of a percentage point. The proposal needed a two-thirds… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fogo, a Layer 1 blockchain built around the Solana Virtual Machine, temporarily stopped mainnet activity after a security incident involving the project’s foundation. An unknown party gained access to foundation-controlled holdings and moved 400 million FOGO tokens to an external address. The transfer represents about… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 5:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW) is preparing to widen the range of tokens available on Schwab Crypto, the firm’s retail digital-asset service. In a recent announcement, the brokerage said eligible clients will soon be able to buy and sell Solana (SOL), Avalanche (AVAX), and Chainlink (LINK) in… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 5:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management’s Solana Staking ETF has become the first dedicated Solana exchange-traded fund to pass $1 billion in assets under management. The product, listed as BSOL, reached the figure about ten months after it began trading in late October 2025. The timing is what… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi Development Corp. (NASDAQ: DFDV), the firm that has built its strategy around accumulating and compounding Solana, has introduced a public analytics platform meant to give investors and builders a clearer look at the network itself rather than only the price of SOL. The tool,… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 6:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MoonPay has expanded its AI-powered PayBox vault so eligible users can interact with Kamino, one of Solana’s largest lending protocols, through ordinary conversation in ChatGPT or Claude. The update, announced on August 27, 2026, does not invent a new credit product. It simply routes existing… Read More

August 26, 2026 @ 11:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

X’s former product chief, Nikita Bier, used a seemingly sarcastic reply on August 25 to confirm a long-teased next step for the platform’s crypto tools: buy and sell controls attached to posts. The remark came after a trader joked that a bull market could begin… Read More

August 26, 2026 @ 2:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital (Nasdaq: GLXY) has broadened its offerings for individual investors by introducing a new borrowing facility on its GalaxyOne platform. The Crypto Portfolio Line of Credit enables qualifying users to secure cash loans using their holdings in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana—including assets that remain… Read More

August 16, 2026 @ 12:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management has entered into a partnership with Superstate, a fintech specializing in bringing securities onto blockchain platforms, to investigate the possibility of allowing investors to hold shares of select Bitwise funds in tokenized form. The crypto-focused asset manager indicated that its Bitwise Solana… Read More

August 6, 2026 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Solana blockchain has reached a significant milestone in the tokenization of traditional financial instruments. Its real-world asset (RWA) sector has expanded to a total value of $3.73 billion, establishing a fresh all-time high for the network.This growth reflects increasing participation from institutional players who… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 2:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pump.fun, the Solana-based platform that allows users to quickly launch meme coins, has come under scrutiny following reports that it terminated employees just weeks or months before their company token grants were set to begin unlocking. An investigation by Sandmark, drawing on internal documents, emails,… Read More

August 3, 2026 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Coates, the newly appointed chief information security officer at the Solana Foundation, has raised alarms about how artificial intelligence is transforming cryptocurrency-related fraud into something far more convincing and harder to detect. In a recent interview, Coates stressed that the industry’s most pressing risks… Read More

July 29, 2026 @ 5:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (NYSE:MS) has expanded its digital asset offerings by introducing two new exchange-traded products focused on Ethereum and Solana. The Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust, trading as MSSE on NYSE Arca, and the Morgan Stanley Solana Trust, under the ticker MSOL, began trading… Read More