Solana

Rates run from 4% on plain stablecoin lending to the mid-teens on managed leverage. What separates them is no longer yield — it is who is legally responsible when something breaks.

Bitwise's BSOL has taken $948 million of the $1.22 billion allocated to spot Solana funds since launch, leaving Fidelity, VanEck and the rest to divide the remainder.

Kraken launched in-app on-chain trading for more than 2,500 Solana tokens on June 18, using Privy wallets and Jupiter quotes. The FAQ explicitly states none of these tokens are listed, custodied, or reviewed by Kraken for investment merit, quality, or suitability.

USDF, a USDC-backed stablecoin issued on Solana through Coinbase's Custom Stablecoin platform, launched yesterday with wallet app Flipcash as its branding partner — the first commercial deal under the program.

HYPE crossed $56 on May 21 and Hyperliquid's fully diluted valuation overtook Solana's, while Bitwise and 21Shares ETFs combined for a record $25.5 million in net inflows the day before.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko told Ethereum Layer 2 users to "abandon all hope" of being quantum-safe over the weekend, citing fresh production hardening on Solana's Falcon-512 verification suite. The dig is more than tribal — the cryptographic argument has merit.

South Korea's largest card issuer signed a memorandum of understanding with the Solana Foundation on Thursday to develop stablecoin payment infrastructure on Solana, with eight other Korean financial institutions reportedly building parallel integrations.

Western Union confirmed its Solana-based dollar stablecoin USDPT will launch next month, connecting crypto wallets to the company's network of 360,000 retail payout locations across 200 countries.

Israel's Capital Market Authority approved BILS, a shekel-pegged stablecoin built on Solana by licensed brokerage Bits of Gold, making it the first regulated fiat-backed token in the Middle East.

DoubleZero Edge went live in public beta on Thursday, routing Solana block data over dedicated fibre to deliver latency improvements of up to 100 milliseconds in Asia, with 379 validators — 43 per cent of the network's stake — already publishing to the platform.

Five days after North Korean hackers drained $270 million from Drift Protocol using social engineering and durable nonces, the Solana Foundation has unveiled STRIDE and the Solana Incident Response Network to overhaul ecosystem security.

Solana fell below $80 in early March 2026, down 70% from its October 2025 peak of $260, as meme coin speculation collapsed and network activity contracted.

Multiple spot Solana ETFs launched in late November 2025, marking the first non-Bitcoin/Ethereum spot crypto ETFs in the U.S.

Pump.fun raised $500 million in under 12 minutes in July 2025, achieving one of the fastest token sales in crypto history.

SOL rallied from $8 post-FTX lows to $100 by December 2023 as daily transactions topped 40 million and DeFi TVL grew tenfold.

PayPal launched its USD stablecoin (PYUSD) on August 7, 2023, marking the first major traditional finance firm to issue its own token on public blockchains.