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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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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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Everything that happened in the last 7 days on @solana The Solana Weekly Newsletter is now out! Read and subscribe to get top Solana News directly in your email. 👉 solanafloor.substack.com
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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.
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🚨JUST IN: $10.99M in $SOL shorts have been liquidated in the past 60 minutes as $SOL hits $122 for the first time in 8 months.
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🚨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%.
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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.
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UPDATE: @Circle minted another ~500 million $USDC on @solana in the last 6 hours.
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📈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
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📊 DATA: @Solana apps generated more revenue than Hyperliquid, Ethereum, and Robinhood combined in the last 24 hours.
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UPDATE: Bitget CEO @GracyBitget confirms the exchange suffered a security breach, with approximately $351.6 million in funds affected.
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.
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🎥 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? 👇
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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
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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.
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🚨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.
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NEW: Watch how quickly transactions finalize on the @Solana testnet after its successful migration to Alpenglow. Source: testnet.stakingfacilities.co…
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🚨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.
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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.
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