The 6 BIGGEST Solana News Stories of the Week:
✍️ @awaisafzal_
1. Alpenglow Hits Testnet, Targeting 150ms Finality
2. $SOL Hits $122 as Bitcoin Reclaims $86K
3. @ZetaChain Votes to Shut Down Its L1 and Move to @Solana
4. CryptoPunks, Boogles and zkSnarks See Millions in NFT Trading
5. Forward Industries (@FWDind) Raises $25M to Buy More $SOL
6. @Solana Launches $1M @joinfrontier Traders Perps Competition
The 6 BIGGEST Solana News Stories of the Week:
✍️ @awaisafzal_
1. Alpenglow Hits Testnet, Targeting 150ms Finality
2. $SOL Hits $122 as Bitcoin Reclaims $86K
3. @ZetaChain Votes to Shut Down Its L1 and Move to @Solana
4. CryptoPunks, Boogles and zkSnarks See Millions in NFT Trading
5. Forward Industries (@FWDind) Raises $25M to Buy More $SOL
6. @Solana Launches $1M @joinfrontier Traders Perps Competition
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🚨JUST IN: @Solana has overtaken @Coinbase in daily spot trading volume, ranking No. 2 across blockchains and centralized exchanges, behind only Binance.
🚨JUST IN: @Solana Trenches back in the driving seat
Solana’s share of memecoin trading volume is back at 80%, its highest level in four weeks, while @RobinhoodApp's share has fallen to 12%.
NEW: @SolanaFndn has appointed @RachelConlan as Chief Strategy Officer and @proofofjamal as General Manager of Payments.
Conlan will lead institutional partnerships, ecosystem growth and go-to-market, while Raees will focus on expanding Solana’s global payments adoption.
📈ETF DATA: U.S. spot @Solana ETFs recorded $13.77M in net inflows yesterday, led by $BSOL, bringing the total net inflows to $1.50 billion.
Track here: solanafloor.com/etf-tracker
BREAKING: Centralized exchange @bitget may have been hacked, with Arkham’s tracker showing $177.7M in suspected losses so far. Bitget has yet to confirm the incident.
🎥 The Stonk narrative around @launchonsf is exploding and challenging @Pumpfun’s dominance.
Holder rewards and buybacks are fuelling the flywheel, but are traders still early? 👇
Timestamps
00:00 - The $STONK Chart
00:56 - Why These Trends Fit Together
01:41 - Who Gets Paid?
02:51 - How The Flywheel Works
04:07 - The Numbers Behind The Thesis
05:51 - How To Ride The Trend
BREAKING: Centralized exchange @bitget may have been hacked, with Arkham’s tracker showing $177.7M in suspected losses so far. Bitget has yet to confirm the incident.
🚨JUST IN: @Kamino has launched a market for @USDai_Official's sUSDai on @Solana. The yield bearing token is backed by loans financing GPU infrastructure for AI operators, with more than $280M across 16 loans.
🚨JUST IN: @Solana’s biggest consensus upgrade in history just went live on the testnet. Alpenglow targets 150ms transaction finality, roughly 85x faster than the current 12.8 seconds.
🚨JUST IN: Alpenglow, @Solana’s biggest consensus change in history, is set to go live on the testnet in less than 6 hours.
The new system could make Solana transaction finality 85× faster, cutting it from around 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds.
NEW: Researchers have proposed Shielded Bitcoin, a way to make private $BTC transfers using Bitcoin L1 without a soft fork.
The design hides transfer amounts and counterparties using encrypted notes and zero-knowledge proofs.