Solana te amo.
LATAM anthem by ATH for islanddao coming to Brazil this October !

https://x.com/islanddao/status/2094832667485495772?s=46&t=Gl-OoU5tFY4SanNEeOhCJw

Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2094802021111189880

BREAKING: $GPRO is live on Solana via @sunrise, issued by @Backpack Securities

GoPro ($GPRO) designs and sells action cameras and creator software, including the HERO and MAX lines, for sports, travel, and professional content production.

Verify the address on @tokens: https://tokens.xyz/gpro?solana=GPRR2u6NS5yBQHWGauoJ9HXgjrTH8dDsrBfTV5zAYvDH

$GPRO is available in your favorite Solana apps
@Backpack, @tryfomo, @dflow, @Titan_Exchange, @phantom, @JupiterExchange, @solflare, @kamino_swap, @Raydium, @mayan and more

Solana Incubator today named its 5 and most competitive cohort of founders building at the crossroads of artificial intelligence, robotics and on-chain markets.
The six teams joining the program are ClawPump, CrowdBrain, Lavarage, Morfi Markets, OwnIt and SoloMission.
ClawPump has already powered thousands of agents and generated more than $125 million in volume. CrowdBrain recently claimed a major robotics hackathon title.
The incubator will work closely with these companies in New York as they ship products on Solana.

https://x.com/incubator/status/2094842504025694668

The part that worries me most about Solana trading bots is not the entry logic.

Fast blocks and fast routing can make a weak system look impressive right up until it hits a messy state.

A bot should be able to answer a few boring questions after every trade:

- What exact signal and wallet state triggered it?

- What was the expected versus actual fill?

- Did fees, priority cost, or slippage change the trade?

- Can it restart without duplicating an order?

- Can one strategy be stopped without touching the rest of the wallet?

Speed is useful. But it also compresses the time you have to notice a bad assumption.

For people who use bots on Solana, what failure mode cost you the most: bad fills, stale data, duplicated orders, or weak risk limits?

Source: https://x.com/SolanaFloor/status/2094424008842252537

NEWS: @Solana is now the #1 blockchain by RWA net inflows over the past 30 days.

Source: https://x.com/opensea/status/2094547650502631836

Buy, sell, trade, and bid on the top u/solana collections.

One place for the NFTs you love 🌊

https://reddit.com/link/1w3unsv/video/3bpdapc7psmh1/player

We’ve just finished a new infrastructure layer for Haan Digital: a private Solana Transaction Sender, hosted from Frankfurt.

It’s built for workloads where transaction speed matters:

• Trading / arbitrage bots
• Liquidation strategies
• Market making
• Wallets and trading apps
• Bots reacting to Yellowstone data
• Any application that wants a faster transaction path than standard RPC submission

The sender uses:

TPU + QUIC → automatic Solana leader routing → current/upcoming leader fanout

Optionally, transactions can also be sent through Jito in parallel.

It can be combined with our Yellowstone gRPC / SubscribeDeshred, which means you can receive fast on-chain data and immediately push the resulting transaction through the same private infrastructure.

We don’t use fixed plans. Pricing is based on the workload you actually need. We agree on limits like TPS, burst, streams and filters beforehand and set a price around that workload. Your price does not constantly change every time your traffic changes.

We’re offering the first week free so you can benchmark everything with your own workload.

If you’re building on Solana and want to try the Transaction Sender, Yellowstone or our private RPC infrastructure, you’re very welcome to join our Discord.

We’d love to grow a small community around Haan Digital and keep building more private Solana infrastructure together. 🚀

I’m looking to move assets between Solana and other networks without making the process more complicated than it needs to be. I know Phantom wallet has integrated routes but they take a high fixed fee which i'm not willing to pay.

What are you guys using for it? I’d prefer something straightforward that doesn’t require jumping through a bunch of hoops.

Solana said Monday that PONS, the token behind Robinhood Chain’s largest launchpad, is now live on Solana through Sunrise.
Traders can buy and sell it in Phantom, Jupiter, Raydium and other apps.
Sunrise handles the listing and liquidity so the token can be used on the network at once.

https://x.com/solana/status/2094460897603588396

I might get back into investing soon, but I've been hodling for a while

I'm curious, any gaming or other projects that are fun to drop some small amount on?

"Right now on Solana, you're able to trade stocks. You can buy Tesla stock, Amazon stock. You can buy gold, silver, Bitcoin. You get better FX rates on Solana than any bank, and better interest on platforms like Kamino than a deposit account."

"People in New York in 1971 were directly plugged into the Nasdaq when price discovery started being digital."

"Right now, every one of you can do that with a mobile phone and an internet connection. Any financial instrument Wall Street was able to do, from your pocket."

Said By Vidor Co founder at SOLFLARE in Solana Summit Serbia

Helius announced the public beta of Preprocessed Transactions, a new service that delivers fully decoded Solana transactions before they reach the processed commitment level.

Users subscribe through a single WebSocket endpoint called preprocessedSubscribe. The offering removes the need for custom deshredding infrastructure or gRPC setups. Each message arrives as a compact binary frame containing the slot, signature, and complete transaction. Server-side account filters support include, exclude, and required parameters, including lookup-table accounts.

The feature is available now on all paid plans and is priced at 0.1 credits per message. Helius designed the product for traders and developers who require reliable early access to transaction data without added operational complexity.

https://x.com/Helius/status/2093464627728498721

Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2093673446677135865

Read

• TheStreet: Solana brings 'Breakpoint' to London with a heavyweight speaker lineup
• The Block: Bitwise fund is first Solana ETF to hit $1 billion AUM
• The Block: Charles Schwab to add Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink to crypto trading platform
• SolanaFloor: Institutional Heavyweights Enter the Token Supercycle: Solana Announces Breakpoint 2026 Speaker Lineup
• CoinDesk: Solana vote to double disinflation passes by a hair in dramatic finish
• Decrypt: Solana Is Having Its Best Month Since 2024—With a Historic Governance Vote on Deck
• CoinDesk: MoonPay's newest integration lets AI agents handle crypto lending on Solana
• The Block: SOL treasury firm DeFi Development launches real-time 'State of Solana' intelligence platform
• CoinDesk: Solana ETFs extend growth streak to 5 days after year's biggest inflows
• The Block: Solana cuts mainnet slot time to 350 milliseconds in first step toward 200ms goal
• The Block: South Korea's Shinhan partners with Solana Foundation, Etherfuse, Orca for tokenized fund issuance
• Yellow: Solana Hits Record 4.2B Transactions With SOL Back Above $100
• SolanaFloor: $60.9M Inflows: Solana ETFs See Highest Inflows of 2026 as $BSOL Hits $1B AUM

Watch

• Vibhu Norby on CNBC India’s Crypto Corner: Huge Uplift In Agentic Commerce With The Rollout Of pay.sh: Solana Foundation
• Pedro Miranda on The Roll Up
• Nick Ducoff on FintechTV’s Capital Markets: Wall Street to MENA: Mubadala Just Put Its Private Market Fund On-Chain for $10,000 Minimum
• MilkRoad: The Market Might Be Completely Mispricing Solana
• SolanaFloor: Is Crypto Winter Finally Over, What’s Next For DeFi? With Solstice Labs CEO Ben Nadareski

Listen

• House of Sol with Ben Brophy: $7 Trillion a Month in Stablecoins, with Geoff Kendrick of Standard Chartered
• The Index Podcast: The Stablecoin Router Everyone Will Use: Ryne Saxe (Eco) on Solana, Visa & the Future of Money
• Solana is Global with Alex Scott: The Future of Stablecoins in the UAE – TLP Advisors
• The Index Podcast: He Got Into Crypto to Save his Cat. Now He's Building Solana's Biggest Trading Card Game. | Natsuki x Rosentica
• The Index Podcast: Bernardo Brites (Trace Finance) on Building the $10B Stablecoin Rails Connecting Brazil to the World
• The Index Podcast: Tokenizing Silver on Solana: Mark Tormey (Founder, Dominion) on Bringing Real-World Silver On-Chain
• The Index Podcast: Brian Huang (Co-Founder/CEO, Glider) on Stocks On-Chain, Copyable Portfolios and AI Advisors

The proposal will double disinflation to 30%, reducing projected SOL issuance by 18.9M SOL ($1.47B) over six years.

What steps these days, beyond hardware setup, one should take to start a new Solana validator

Contrary to the current spin and gaslighting, the vote result is not the win we needed, but it does avoid the most embarrassing scenario.

Doubling the rate of inflation reduction is not that big of a win. Solana’s inflation rate was already declining 15%/year. Now that doubles to 30%.

The real win would have been cutting new issuance to 0, or passing this when it was first debated last cycle. This was the easier proposal to pass, and it still took a war and the threat of terrible optics just to get it through.

The more important proposal for SOL value capture wasn't even close to passing, largely because of validators tied to on-chain exchanges like Jupiter.

Once Solana leadership and influencers realized it was going down, the messaging shifted to damage control. Instead of allowing "Solana failed to increase value capture," the narrative shifted to "We can improve this".

Of course it could be improved. That wasn't the problem. The proposal was still a clear step forward for SOL holders.

Problem was simple: It would have increased costs for some of the largest players in Solana. They're choosing short-term benefits over the long-term benefit of a stronger SOL, even though a stronger asset ultimately creates more future revenue.

This wasn't a win for Solana. The loss just wasn't as devastating as it could have been, and even that was barely avoided.

Solana still has a major incentive alignment problem. Something chains like Hyperliquid got right from the start.

FINAL VOTE:

SGP-0002 / SIMD-0550 — Double Disinflation ✅ PASSED

YES: 67.00% — 176.29M SOL

NO: 25.16% — 66.19M SOL

ABSTAIN: 7.84% — 20.63M SOL

SGP-0003 / SIMD-0553 — Resource & Inclusion Fee ❌ FAILED

YES: 53.90% — 142.84M SOL

NO: 18.92% — 50.15M SOL

ABSTAIN: 27.18% — 72.03M SOL

66.67% YES required to pass.

Jupiter was the largest detractor, with nearly 12M SOL from users pointed to NO. Remember this. Not surprisingly, other on-chain exchanges like Raydium joined. Large community members switched to NO in final hours once there was no remaining path to YES.

X.com/makickal

This is a response for my personal prompt for crypto digging. Might be useful to the community.

What do you think?

Long read, not a "WiLL SoL rEaCh 1000000k?" Prompt

(Claude, Fable 5)

SOL — INTERROGATION #12

Reference: ~€92 ($106.91) · Market cap ~€53.5B ($62.3B) · Circulating ~583M / 631.75M

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THE VOTE OUTCOME — closed Aug 27, 15:30 UTC

SGP-0001 — Solana Constitution: APPROVED, 85.97%

SGP-0002 — Double Disinflation (SIMD-0550): APPROVED, 67.0%

SGP-0003 — Resource & Inclusion Fee (SIMD-0553): REJECTED, 53.90%

The threshold was a two-thirds supermajority, i.e. 66.66%.

SGP-0002 passed by 0.33 percentage points.

And now the part you need to know, because it's the real story:

The "Kraken 2" validator (8.9 million SOL) had voted NO, alongside Figment, Everstake and P2P.org, to protect staking yield. After Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz publicly accused the exchanges of "mathematical irrationality," Kraken switched its vote to YES in the final hours, putting 90.34% of its stake in favour.

Without that switch, SGP-0002 would have failed at roughly 63.9%.

The monetary policy of a $62 billion network was decided by an exchange that changed its mind in the closing hours of the voting window.

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PHASE 1 — THE ON-CHAIN DATA

What SIMD-0550 actually changes, with the numbers

The messaging says: 18.9 million SOL removed from future issuance, terminal rate of 1.5% reached in 2029 instead of 2032. True. Now put it in scale.

Current emission (~60,000/day): ~21,900,000 SOL per year

Average reduction from SIMD-0550 (18.9M over 6 years): ~3,150,000 SOL per year

Current burn (648–900/day): ~236,000–328,000 SOL per year

The reform cuts about 14% of annual issuance. The burn covers 1.1–1.5% of it.

Solana will keep emitting nearly 22 million SOL a year and burning fewer than three hundred thousand. The vote changed the slope of the curve, not its sign.

And here is the point that concerns this entire series

SGP-0003 — the proposal that would have taken burns from 648 to 7,500–9,000 SOL per day — was rejected at 53.90%.

It didn't fall short by a hair like SGP-0002. It fell short by twelve points.

SIMD-0553 would have replaced the flat 5,000-lamport fee with 2,500 lamports of inclusion fee to the block leader plus a variable resource fee burned in full. That is: it would have tied the destruction of SOL to actual network usage.

The validators — the very actors who collect the fees — voted to keep them.

This is the thread running through ten interrogations, and Solana just put it to an explicit vote. The result: the inflation cut passes, because it costs nobody anything today; value capture fails, because it would cost the people voting.

Dilution of those already holding

Circulating supply is ~583 million out of 631.75 million total. There's no unlock calendar here like on SUI or RED: the dilution is the inflation, and with 70–74% of supply staked, anyone not staking gets diluted with nothing in return.

The real on-chain yield was 0.17% in Q1 2026 against a 6.7% nominal. SIMD-0550 compresses the nominal faster. It does not raise the real yield, because SGP-0003 — which was supposed to do that — fell.

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PHASE 2 — SENTIMENT

The price has already done everything, and more

I wrote the previous version of this report on August 2 with SOL at $72.92 and a verdict of LONG 56%.

Today: $106.91. Highest since January 31, +19.8% on the week, +80% off the June low, +47% since that report.

The thesis worked. And now I have to ask the uncomfortable question that follows.

The uncomfortable question

At $107, the 18.9 million SOL saved are worth roughly $2.02 billion spread over six years, i.e. ~$337 million a year of reduced pressure. Against a $62 billion market cap that's 0.54% per year.

Meanwhile, since August 2 the market cap has gone from ~$42.4B to ~$62.3B.

The market added roughly $20 billion in 26 days for a reform worth $2 billion over six years. Ten times the total value of the measure, priced in under a month.

I'm not saying the rally is unjustified — Bitcoin above $80,000 is part of it, $260 million of shorts liquidated in four hours on August 25, and record ETF inflows. I'm saying that the portion of the rally attributable to the vote has already been paid for several times over.

The ETFs: here the data is genuinely strong

• August 25: $33.5 million net inflow in a single day, the best since late 2025. ETF volume $160–170 million.

• Cumulative above $1.1–1.45 billion, net assets ~$878–906 million

• Solana beat XRP on daily inflows by about $20 million

Compare that to what I found in the other reports: HBAR with Grayscale withdrawing its registration, LINK at -47.6% since launch. Solana is the only one of the ten assets where the ETF channel is accelerating instead of dying.

Positioning is no longer exhausted

On August 2 the third leg of the thesis was "nine consecutive red months, below every moving average, capitulated positioning." That leg is gone. SOL is above all its moving averages, +80% off the low, and still -67% from the $293.31 all-time high and -49% over twelve months.

The bounce happened. The easy fuel has been burned.

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PHASE 3 — ROADMAP AND REALITY

Correction: Alpenglow is not live, and won't be in August

A lot of coverage is getting this wrong.

What shipped on August 17 was Agave 4.2, which does not contain the new consensus. It brings SIMD-0525 (slot times from 400 to 350 ms), transactions 3.3x larger, on-chain storage costs -90%, and for the first time BLS key support — which is Alpenglow's technical prerequisite, not Alpenglow.

The consensus switch comes with Agave 4.3, targeting October 2026, with no date and no block height fixed.

For you as a holder: nothing to do, no deadline. But if you read headlines about "Alpenglow live," they're wrong.

And a warning that still stands: when Alpenglow does activate, roughly 75% of Solana transactions are validator votes and they will move off-chain. The transaction counter and TPS will fall by three quarters by design. Don't sell on those headlines.

The remaining catalyst

There is exactly one left: the activation of Alpenglow with Agave 4.3, October 2026. Dated to the month, not the day.

Everything else has been consumed: the vote is over, Agave 4.2 has shipped, the Constitution is ratified.

Two new elements that aren't catalysts but do matter: Charles Schwab's trading plans (which pushed SOL 13% in a session) and the Securitize listing on the NYSE.

The institutional dissent, which deserves naming

Solana Company (Nasdaq: HSDT), a listed treasury vehicle, voted for the Constitution and against both economic proposals. CEO Joseph Chee's reasoning: institutions need stable, auditable financial parameters to plan over multiple years, and an abrupt change to staking yields or transaction costs can slow institutional adoption currently under evaluation.

It's the opposite argument to the reformers', it comes from an entity holding SOL on its balance sheet, and the press almost entirely ignored it. The treasury-company risk I flagged on August 2 now also has a stated political position.

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Phase 4 — anomalies, blind spots, and the final verdict — continues in the comments ↓

If Sol is proof of stake and they make it less profitable/enticing to stake. Why would anyone stake? Then if no one stakes anymore doesn’t the coin just fail? Im still trying to understand solana and crypto but this seems like a bad thing to do to a coin and this whole idea of staking is to counteract inflation but were gonna try and phase out staking seems kinda backwards.

Anyone here keeping part of their everyday money in USDC on Solana instead of a bank account?

With transactions being so fast and cheap, I’ve been thinking about it more. What’s stopping you from doing the same spending, off-ramps, security or something else?