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A PBOC department head told Financial News that promoting SOL is illegal and that Solana's Shanghai event was halted. Solana said it was postponed. What is confirmed, and what Hong Kong is doing instead.
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US spot Solana ETFs lost a net $71.47M in the week to 30 October, a record, days after Alpenglow went live. We compared the flows, the price and the 150 ms finality claim with the data available.
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MoonPay's PayBox now lets Claude, ChatGPT and Grok execute Kamino lending trades on Solana from a conversation. We put the full rollout timeline together and checked what the custody model actually promises.
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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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