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SIMD-0437's first step activated on Solana mainnet at slot 444,096,000, cutting the cost of opening an account by 9%. We verified the before-and-after balances directly via RPC and found steps 2 through 5 do not even have funded feature gates yet.
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Transaction V1 reaches Solana mainnet on 9 September with 4,096-byte transactions, but the 64-address cap does not move. The fix is blocked on a feature gate that has been sitting in the runtime, switched off, for years.
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SGP-0002 passed five days ago but could not be scheduled: Solana's inflation maths used floating point, which two clients cannot be trusted to compute identically. SIMD-0607 merged this morning.
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Solana's first binding governance vote has finished. SGP-0002 passed at 67.00% against a 66.67% bar. SGP-0003 fails under one Solana rulebook and passes under the other, twenty points apart.
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Charles Schwab will add Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink to Schwab Crypto in the coming months. The reach is 39 million brokerage accounts and $12 trillion in assets. The cost is 75 basis points a trade.
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A mainnet RPC query shows epoch 1023 was 55.8% complete on Thursday evening, so Solana's first governance vote is still running. Its repository says no quorum; its FAQ says one third. Turnout is 23.8%.
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SOL reached $108.76, up 13.63% and its highest in six months, hours after Solana's first on-chain governance vote closed. No tally has been published for any of the three proposals.
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Galaxy Digital's new retail credit line accepts staked SOL as collateral without unstaking, at 8.99% APR. Against a 5.84% staking yield that is negative carry, and a live governance vote would widen the gap.
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Solana's first binding on-chain governance vote ends Thursday. SGP-0002 and SGP-0003 would double disinflation and burn 14x more SOL, cutting nominal staking yield from 5.84% toward 2.25% within three years.
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Solana's short-term price action has become a focal point for prediction markets as traders navigate the fallout from a massive $286 million DeFi exploit and looming Alameda sell-off fears.
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SoFi Technologies has unveiled its 'Big Business Banking' platform, leveraging the Solana blockchain to provide enterprises with 24/7 treasury management and seamless fiat-to-crypto integration.
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Solana leads a massive cryptocurrency market downturn following a U.S. presidential address outlining intensified military action, overriding historical April bullishness.
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Solana's prominent decentralized exchange, Drift Protocol, has suffered a massive $285 million security breach, forcing a complete halt of all platform operations.
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As Solana targets global financial infrastructure like NASDAQ and SWIFT, ecosystem leaders are shifting focus from raw speed to execution quality, block building, and market microstructure.
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As traditional markets falter amid escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, Bitcoin reclaims the $71,000 mark and Solana pushes to $91.7, showcasing unprecedented digital asset resilience.
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Solana's historic Alpenglow upgrade reduces transaction finality to 150 milliseconds and eliminates validator voting fees, setting the stage for institutional adoption as SOL targets the $100 resistance level.
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In a landmark joint guidance, the SEC and CFTC have officially classified 16 major cryptocurrencies, including Solana, XRP, and Cardano, as digital commodities, ending years of regulatory ambiguity.
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Forward Industries has secured a $40 million crypto-backed loan from Galaxy Digital, utilizing its 7 million Solana treasury to fund a $27.4 million share repurchase program without liquidating digital assets.
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The SEC and CFTC have jointly classified 16 major cryptocurrencies, including Solana and Bitcoin, as digital commodities, providing unprecedented regulatory clarity for the digital asset industry.
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Circle's USDC has officially surpassed Tether's USDT in on-chain transfer volume, reaching $2.2 trillion. This historic shift is heavily driven by explosive growth in algorithmic trading and institutional settlements on the Solana network.
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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered the ForceMemo campaign, a sophisticated supply chain attack compromising hundreds of GitHub Python repositories using the Solana blockchain as a decentralized command-and-control infrastructure.
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Solana breaks out of a five-week consolidation phase, driven by surging open interest, strong DeFi fundamentals, and growing institutional adoption through ETFs and real-world asset tokenization.
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