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The world’s largest phone maker is putting Solana in its wallet. Samsung Wallet is getting USDC cross-border payments, BNY opened SOL custody, Securitize brought U.S. stocks onchain, and blocks got 2x faster underneath.
Here’s everything that shipped:
📰 Headline News
- Samsung partnered with Solana to bring USDC cross-border payments via Samsung Wallet
- 200ms slot targets went live on Solana mainnet-beta, completing @anza_xyz’s SIMD-0525 rollout
- @SolanaFndn launched Solana DvP, open-source delivery-versus-payment settlement for institutions, built with input from J.P. Morgan
- BNY expanded its digital asset custody to the EU under MiCA, offering institutional custody for SOL
- @Securitize launched Securitize Stocks on Solana, bringing 1:1 share-backed U.S. equities onchain
- @orca_so and @Loopscale combined as @formation_so, putting issuance, trading and credit on one set of rails
📰 Launches
- @kamino launched the Apyx Market, enabling USDC borrowing and leveraged yield strategies against preferred equity-backed apyUSD
- @MarinadeFinance launched Marinade Borrow, enabling users to borrow USDC or SOL directly against staked SOL without unstaking
- @DGLD_Official brought MKS PAMP’s tokenized gold, available to 1M+ @SwissBorg users with @ArrakisFinance liquidity
- @AgantFinance made its institutional-grade pound sterling stablecoin GBPA available on Solana
- @Helium partnered with grocery co-op Wakefern Food Corp to offload carrier cellular traffic onto Wi-Fi
- @MeteoraAG unveiled DLMM Pro with fully customizable market configurations for token launches
- @sanctumso shipped swSOL, a wrapped SOL asset
- @nansen_ai previewed autonomous AI agents that research and execute onchain trades
- @ZetaChain demonstrated Anuma Nearby, which uses private AI memory to connect people nearby
- @grass debuted its Contents API, turning any public URL into clean, model-ready text for AI agents
- @PayAINetwork and @BlockRunAI shipped batch @x402 payments on Solana to settle multiple API calls in a single transaction
- @altitude integrated Altitude Accounting with Xero for direct transaction ledger mapping
- $EWZ ETF and $RACE shares went live on Solana via @sunrise, issued by @Backpack Securities
- $WLD, $SHIB, and $VVV went live on Solana via @sunrise
- @backabledotbiz launched Backable, a frontier fundraising platform built by @MetaDAOProject
- @scoutfinance_ launched its social investing app on iOS and Android
- @DualMintRWA tokenized a fleet of 200 physical claw machines on Solana
- @comicbookhq launched its DC Comics collectibles gacha machine featuring vintage and modern grails
- @MapleMarketApp introduced tokenized Canadian maple syrup on Solana powered by @BAXUSco and @SuperteamCAN
- @2WA_Official launched the first market-neutral fund built on USDGO, live for professional investors in Hong Kong via @osldotcom
- @SolanaFndn released Microscope, an open-source monitoring and alerting tool for Solana programs and Squads multisigs
- @jtx_trade revealed plans for a mobile app alongside equities and perps trading features
- @galileowilson won @joinfrontier’s Singapore edition and heads to finale at Breakpoint, with a Porsche 911 GT3 RS on the line
- @TrustWallet expanded its 0% swap fee campaign on Solana to cover SOL, wSOL, and five stablecoins
- @USDC Bridge added Solana support, enabling direct USDC transfers between Solana and 18 ecosystems
📰 Milestones
- Stablecoin-holding addresses on Solana topped a record 14M
- Solana hit 1.88M daily active addresses, a 13-month high
- Stablecoin card spend on Solana crossed $1B all-time
- Solana’s tokenized equities have grown to over 2,000 products
- @leaps_finance crossed $100K in options sold during its beta, paying sellers upfront yield on SOL, cbBTC, and USDC
- @ImperialPerps’ ARMADA prop AMM surpassed $14.1M in notional volume in 7 days
- @hylo_so crossed $44M in combined open interest across $xSOL, $xBTC, and $xHYPE
- @xStocksFi hit $2.4B in monthly volume, up 28x year over year
35 DAYS TILL BREAKPOINT
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MC ANNOUNCEMENT 🇸🇬
Shina designed kimonos and plushies were some of the most wanted merch in the ecosystem. The creative behind them is here to host tomorrow 👘
@shizudio builds delightful experiences for brands like @perena and @sanctumso!
Solana Summit Singapore - Tue 6 Oct 👇
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🚨JUST IN: @Solana recorded more spot DEX trading volume yesterday than Ethereum mainnet, all Ethereum L2s and Hyperliquid combined.
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After a year of intense daily bipartisan negotiations, this bill is ready. Here is the final text. President Trump voluntarily agreed to new ethics provisions holding every federally elected official, judge, and their spouses to some of the toughest ethics restrictions in U.S. history. This new text includes more than 120 of Democrats' demands. A no vote on Tuesday means opposing real ethics reforms on politicians' personal investments, handing American leadership in digital assets to our foreign competitors, and leaving Americans with zero protections in the digital asset markets. Democrats got what they wanted; now they need to take yes for an answer. Here's the latest: lummis.senate.gov/press-rele…
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Solana Founders.
If you didn't get the memo, or truly understand many of the reasons for fomo's success (outside just a general killer product with PMF).
At the meta level, they met next gen users where they are.
- Mobile First
- TikTok Campaign
- Clippers
If you are not thinking about mobile first experiences, you are seriously limiting your user base, usage and TAM in general.
If I were building a trading app on Solana, I would go straight for mobile and do the web dex later.
This might not be true for every product, but when it comes to most trading applications where you target is younger traders, they don't use computers like us uncs do.
So there forever they won't be able to trade in a restaurant, uber, airport and wherever else they are hanging.
So you are massively missing out.
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Before Token2049 fills every hotel in the city, APAC’s biggest @Solana gathering happens first.
Solana Summit APAC
October 6, Singapore.
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Excited to share that Flint is now part of @SolanaFndn's Frontier Traders!
Reminder: Flint makers pay $0 fees, and are now eligible for the $15K spot rebate pools.
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Spout Finance Beta is officially live on @solana Testnet.
You can now buy tokenized US equities, borrow against them at 0% APR without selling, and put your stablecoins to work and earn yield.
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Founders need to dream bigger now.
My advice used to be find a niche no one is looking at and build for it or solve a problem you or your friends or colleagues are experiencing.
But given where we are with AI, the constraint has changed. You can quite literally dream bigger and build things that would have been impossible a few years ago.
The cost of building is collapsing also. A small team of 2-4 can now do what entire teams of researchers, scientists, and engineers can do.
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Everything the Foundation does rolls up to two objectives: 1/ attract the best talent to Solana, 2/ attract capital to Solana. Capital is necessary to attract talent. Talent is necessary to attract capital. Neither stands alone.
"King making" is short sighted and self limiting: it caps how much of either can form.
The other extreme, “credible neutrality”, sounds like high-minded fairness. In practice it’s great for code but comes up short applied to humans, whose express role is to exercise judgment, at risk of fallibility. Aspiring to eliminate the need for taste, judgment, and leadership doesn’t remove human judgment. It pushes it into the shadows.
The principle we operate on is open meritocracy: actively facilitate competition, let the market decide. No one is bigger than the market - for capital, for talent, or for users.
On perps, the ecosystem (and the Foundation) holds many views, argued hard and usually reconciled. Sometimes what surfaces publicly are a subset of voices rather than the settled position.
In actuality, the Foundation has always supported diversity across the perps builder ecosystem. The public perps program and frontier traders are two of the more recent efforts. I don’t think our socials presence has fully represented the actual diversity of support or range of perspectives on perps. (This will change).
The claim that only one team in Solana can build fully on chain perps is just not true. Many have taken on the challenge in recent months.
Perps are very hard to build fully on chain, and fully on chain is more valuable to the future of DeFi (and Solana) than pool trading, off chain execution, or any number of alternative architectures. Dydx first attempted this in 2017. Nearly 10 years on, our industry is still working on it and Solana is very very close.
You can be clear-eyed that not all architectures are equal and still be welcoming to everyone who comes to build here.
Entrepreneurship is a brutal battle. Most attempts fail, for all kinds of reasons. The presence or absence of RTs aren’t high on that list.
Our job is to try to attract the best talent and capital to Solana to compete. The Foundation doesn’t decide who succeeds or fails - the market does.
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There's $250M sitting at 2.63% APY on Kamino right now. That's below the Fed Funds rate.
Move to USD* and earn 8.4% APY.
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Every week I’m seeming a new ecosystem “downsizing” (running out of money and about to shut down).
Solana Foundation is expanding globally, and while we have specific roles listed, we are always looking for killers and will literally make a role just for you.
If you’re from another ecosystem, a killer at what you do and finally see that solana is the best place to be then reach out to @stokenomic or check out jobs.solana.com
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