No summer slowdown. August wrapped at $143M in app revenue and 5.2B transactions, and September opened with rails built for AI agents.
From SHEIN's listing-day debut to Birkins coming onchain, here's everything that shipped this week:
📰 Headline News
- Solana Payment Channels went live for x402 and MPP, enabling 1M agent payments/sec with batched settlement
- Solana’s logo ad auction raised $167K for Nepal flood relief via
@mallowdotart
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@opensea expanded its marketplace to include Solana NFTs
📰 Launches
- SHEIN landed on Solana via
@xStocksFi the day it listed in Hong Kong
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@JupiterExchange deployed Universal Deposit, automating cross-chain routing and swapping directly into Solana USDC
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@moonpay introduced PayBox for
@grok users to trade, shop and spend through conversation on Solana
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@MidasRWA launched solmF-ONE, bringing
@FasanaraCapital's asset-backed credit strategy onchain
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@gmtrade_xyz enabled 24/7 gold and WTI perps with
@chainlink Data Streams
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@Beezie partnered with The Luxury Closet to bring authenticated Birkins onchain
- Neuberger Securitize High Income Tokenized Fund (HINC) by
@Securitize went live as collateral on
@Loopscale
- $AMC and $GPRO tokenized shares went live on Solana via
@sunrise, issued by
@Backpack Securities
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@arqentrade launched isolated-margin perps across 20 long-tail markets
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@colosseum announced the Crypto World’s Fair hackathon running Sept 14-Oct 12
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@solanamobile scheduled the CLOCK IN hackathon with
@RadiantsDAO for Sept 8-Oct 8
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@SuperteamAU joined the Buy Australian AI Partnership as a founding partner alongside major national banks
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@WSOP returned with the 2026 WSOP Super Circuit Canada Main Event
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@M3LEE_LIVE teased social shopping for Solana collectibles
📰 Milestones
- Solana hit a record 5.2B non-vote transactions in August
- Tokenized equity supply reached a new all-time high of $683M
- Solana led August app revenue across chains with $143M, a 38% share
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@onrefinance topped $250M, becoming
@kamino’s largest RWA market
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@jtx_trade passed $100M in cumulative trading volume
- Solana's share of x402 transactions rose to 81% in August
- Solana crypto card spending hit a record $100M+ in August
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@Beezie recorded a new all-time high of $2.2M in daily volume
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@fomo achieved a new daily revenue record of $1.2M
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