Solana spent this week trading shoulder to shoulder with Wall Street 📈
- Solana processed over 170M spot DEX trades last week, around 59% of all trades executed on the Nasdaq
- In October, Solana took 37% of all blockchain revenue, ahead of Tron, BNB and ETH
- Apps on Solana now support hardware wallet signing, so you read and approve a clear message on your device
- $AAPL, $GOOGL, $MSFT and $CAKE are now live 24/7 via Sunrise, issued by Backpack Securities
Watch the full weekly Solana update! 👇
FLASH CHALLENGE #21 IS LIVE 🟣
→ Challenge: Trade $150k in volume on swap io within the next 3 days
→ Prize: 3 winners each take home $25 in $SOL
→ Date: Oct 29th to Nov 2nd
Quick reminder:
-Every challenge now comes with guaranteed XP. Hit $150k trading volume and 50k Season 0 XP is yours!
-Every swap you make also counts toward all ongoing events, so you're stacking progress everywhere at once.
📜 Full details: swap.io/flash-challenge/flas…
🔗 The clock’s ticking, jump in: swap.io
Swap io Weekly Recap 🟣
Platform Features & Improvements:
🔹 Guaranteed XP for Trading Challenges: Trading challenges now reward XP to all participants. Challenges with financial rewards will also reward participants with a raffle ticket.
🔹 Share & Earn XP: A new CTA button on the website lets you share your completed challenges or quests on X and earn Season 0 XP.
🔹 Completed Challenges Filter: A filter has been added so you can easily track your finished challenges.
🔷 New Permanent Challenges: Five new volume milestones are now live, from First $1K Traded up to First $1M Traded, rewarding 1,000 XP up to 1.5M XP for Season Zero
Milestones & Token Listings:
🔹 Swap io hit a new milestone with total swaps passing +200k!
🔹 New tokens went live on Swap io and Solana: $AAPL, $GOOGL, $MSFT, $CAKE.
Bounties & Rewards:
🔹 Winners of the Superteam x Swap io "Write a Thread or Long Post: Price Comparison" bounty have been announced, and prizes have been distributed!
🔹 Winners of the "Make a Video: Season Zero, Pump the Pool 3 & Social Quests" bounty have been announced, completing the distribution of our $500 prize pool!
Curious to see all these new changes? Go to swap.io and check them out now!
Some new features and updates just dropped on Swap io! 🔥
Updates:
- Guaranteed XP for Trading Challenges: Trading challenges now reward XP to all participants. Challenges with financial rewards will also reward participants with a raffle ticket.
- Share and Earn XP: Share your completion on X for an extra 50 XP.
- Completed Challenges Filter: A new Completed filter keeps your finished challenges in one place.
👉 Check out these changes here: swap.io/challenges
BREAKING: @Cheesecake is now LIVE on @solana powered by @sunrise & @Backpack.
👉 Get the best prices here: swap.io
Community Spotlight 🟣
@DandySmart2 took a simple $50 swap and showed how swap io compares live quotes, then walked through how Season Zero, Pump the Pool 3, and Social Quests all connect.
Our video bounty winner, and well worth a watch below 👇
If you’re trading on Solana and still relying on just one platform to route your swaps, you are very likely leaving money on the table.
Different decentralized exchanges give you different rates at any given second depending on liquidity, price impact, and routing efficiency. That’s why I decided to put Swap.io to the test.
Think of it like a flight-comparison site, but built specifically for Solana. It scans 5+ routing engines in real time to locate the cheapest, most efficient path for your trade so you never overpay.
I tested this out directly with a simple swap: $50 USDC into SOL. Within seconds, Swap.io pulled up 4 live quotes side-by-side. Right at that moment, Jupiter offered the cleanest, most cost-effective route, and the platform routed the trade through it seamlessly. no tab juggling, no manual math, just the best fill available.
What makes @swapdotio even more compelling right now is that every single action you take is tied into a broader reward ecosystem running concurrently:
1. Pump the Pool (Edition 3)
A community trading competition running from Sep 29 through Oct 14. It kicks off with a base prize pool of $1,000, and for every $1M in community trading volume, another $100 unlocks scaling all the way up to $10,000 in USDC.
The top 20 traders by volume at the end take home the split. The more the community trades, the bigger the reward becomes for the leaders.
2. Season Zero
You don’t have to trade massive whale volumes just to see value. Every single trade including my $50 swap automatically stacks XP directly on your profile.
Season Zero is designed to track and reward genuine, active on-chain usage across the platform.
3. Social Quests
You don’t even have to be actively swapping around the clock to keep your momentum going. Head over to the Social Quests tab to earn extra XP simply by supporting and engaging with the community right here on X.
It’s a closed-loop system: you lock in the cheapest execution on your swaps, push your ranking on the Pump the Pool leaderboard, and accumulate Season Zero XP simultaneously.
If you’re ready to check it out, jump in using my referral link: swap.io/?r=RVdOaGJ2
Signing up through that link instantly credits your profile with a 5,000 XP head start in Season Zero before you even place your first trade.
Connect your wallet, compare your routes, and see what you’ve been missing on your executions.
Faster than the blink of an eye. 150 millisecond finality on Solana.
“That’s faster than the blink of an eye. It means a lightning-fast checkout experience, which is a true differentiator for retailers and financial products."
"By making things faster and easier for developers, we get more shots on goal and more chances for entrepreneurs to find PMF.”
@bw_solana @anza_xyz @Genfinity
The winners of the Season Zero, Pump the Pool 3, and Social Quests video bounty with @SuperteamEarn are in! 🔥
🥇 @DandySmart2: 200 USDC
🥈 @mel_sol1: 125 USDC
🥉 @web3yohan: 80 USDC
4th @phaze_001: 60 USDC
5th @shelleymaeph: 35 USDC
Thank you to everyone who picked up a camera and showed what’s happening on swap io. 47 videos came in, and each one helped people see how Season Zero, Pump the Pool 3, and Social Quests fit together. 🙏
Winners are listed on Superteam Earn: superteam.fun/earn/listing/m…
The winners of the Price Comparison bounty with @SuperteamEarn are in! 🔥
🥇 @JoshFlashAY: 200 USDC
🥈 @faze_aze: 125 USDC
🥉 @The_realJulz: 80 USDC
4th @0xWeb3DevRel: 60 USDC
5th @daniel10124861: 35 USDC
Thank you to everyone who put swap io to the test. 113 entries came in, and each one took the time to run real quotes side by side and share what they found.
🔗 Winners are listed on Superteam Earn: superteam.fun/earn/listing/w…
Social Challenge: Quote our Privacy Video!
🎯 Challenge: Quote-retweet our Privacy video with your own take, drop a comment, and verify to earn yourself 5000 Season 0 XP!
🔗 Video: nitter.cf/swapdotio/status/20850…
👉 Challenge Details: swap.io/social-challenge/quo…














