The clock just ticked faster.
From a 350ms slot record to healthcare stocks to an actual dinosaur fossil, with $230B of Wall Street fixed income along the way. All of it sounded crazy until this week.
Here's what shipped 👇
📰 Headline News
- Solana reduced its slot time to 350ms, marking the first slot time reduction
- Shinhan Asset Management partnered with
@SolanaFndn,
@etherfuse, and
@orca_so to build a KRW tokenized fund
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@Securitize and
@neubergerberman launched HINC on Solana, drawing on Neuberger’s $230B+ asset-management platform
📰 Launches
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@NexusMutual made its non-EVM debut on Solana, opening public coverage across
@kamino,
@JupiterExchange,
@Raydium, and
@orca_so
- $LLY (Eli Lilly) and $MRNA (Moderna) went live on Solana via
@sunrise, issued by
@Backpack Securities
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@moonpay added
@CashApp Pay, letting eligible US users buy Solana assets directly from their Cash App balance
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@Backpack introduced Graphs for multi-metric stock analysis and thesis charting
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@solanamobile launched the USDC Earn Vault in Seed Vault Wallet powered by
@kamino
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@tryramp enabled funding for agent wallets to execute purchases via x402 on Solana
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@sphere_labs added Onramper Accounts to its dashboard for automatic USD/EUR bank-to-stablecoin routing on Solana
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@Interstice_Dig partnered with
@FalconXGlobal to launch institutional cross-chain swaps on Solana
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@JupiterExchange added direct DeFi position management to Portfolio v2
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@clawpumptech kicked off AnsemHack Clawrena with $320K in prizes
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@solanamobile rolled out the final round of Seeker Summer
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@MeteoraAG shipped custom DLMM alerts for out-of-range liquidity and PnL targets
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@JurassicFi launched the raise for Deaton, the first tokenized dinosaur fossil on Solana
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@fomo integrated real-time Solana news, ships, and announcements directly into its trading terminal
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@solflare teased an upcoming perps trading experience
- Solana School Fall Class applications entered their final days ahead of the August 31 kickoff
- Breakpoint 2026 lands in London in less than 90 days
📰 Milestones
- Solana’s total RWA value surpassed $4B
- Tokenized equities supply on Solana crossed $465M to reach a new weekly ATH
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@Raydium crossed $4B in cumulative tokenized stock volume
- Solana recorded 216M non-vote transactions in a single day, setting a new ATH
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@kamino Institutional Commodity Yield Vault reached $30M capacity
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@fomo climbed into the Top 3 Finance apps in the U.S. App Store
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@Solmate’s treasury reached ~1.25M SOL
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@commonsmade’s VibeFi campaign crossed 100K posts
- $MRNA surpassed $4.5M in onchain volume in its first 24 hours on Solana