Help me beat Vibhu Use the code BP26-NOAH It's not a working code. You will pay full price and you will like it. For the culture.

Help me beat Vibhu Use the code BP26-LILY Will pick three people to attend a quintessential English experience the weekend before Breakpoint. luma.com/breakpoint2026

We're thrilled to welcome two new leaders to the Solana Foundation. Rachel Conlan (@RachelConlan) joins as Chief Strategy Officer to lead strategy across institutional partnerships, ecosystem growth and go-to-market. Jamal Raees (@proofofjamal) joins as General Manager of Payments to expand the adoption and reach of Solana as global payments infrastructure. These appointments strengthen institutional growth and payments leadership as more financial activity moves onto Solana.

Extraordinary additions to the team

Great technology doesn't get built in isolation. It needs talent, ideas and capital, and something that connects all three. Solana Accelerate China brings them together. Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and Beijing, October 16 to 22.

hiring a new media manager, looking for someone who: → has actually grown brand channels on IG, TikTok and YouTube → gets things made, solo or with agencies, editors and creators → has taste high agency folks, come build

Ankur is a wonderful talent and also a long time friend. Pleasure to welcome him to the Solana ecosystem.

All the better to trade stocks with

Users do care about decentralization. Not in that users are going to look up your nakomoto coefficient before they press a trade button But because users are across 180+ jusridictions, want and require max asset and app diversity, and the only way for that to exist on unified, performant, 24/7 global infra is through decentralization

BREAKING: The SEC issues a temporary, conditional exemption allowing onchain trading of tokenized US stocks.

This week at @FutureProof_HQ — the world’s largest wealth advisor gathering — we co-hosted a dinner with @Grayscale to bring the @solana story directly to the people allocating client capital. RIAs are emerging as one of the fastest-growing and most consistent holder bases for Solana ETFs/ETPs. If advisors are going to allocate, they need to understand the asset — the fundamentals, the network, the use cases, and why Solana belongs in the mainstream conversation. So we’re going where the allocators are. Getting in the room. Telling the story. Building conviction. More to come. 🔥

Important step for @Backpack today. Going forward, every stock/ETF perpetual listing unlocks the underlying spot asset as margin collateral. - Borrow against your stocks - Trade against your stocks - Hedge against your stocks Real security entitlements, all portfolio margined with your Backpack account in a modern brokerage for the entire stock market. 🧱🧱🧱

Landmark

China is a place where to Accelerate is an instinct See you in Shanghai (and Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Beijing)

I'm incredibly excited to support SOL as collateral on @PhoenixTrade: not for what it enables today, but for what it represents for the future of on-chain trading. Getting this feature to work was very technically involved: - We had to properly recognize a new collateral type on Phoenix accounts without breaking existing interfaces and integrations - We added the capability for the on-chain risk engine to value SOL for margin - We directly integrated every current (and any future) spot DEX into Phoenix to allow for atomic spot liquidations and swaps This feature only scratches the surface of what an on-chain exchange can offer when paired with a generalized asset ledger. Solana spot markets already facilitate billions of dollars of daily trading activity across a diverse selection of assets. With multicollateral support just around the corner, any asset with a liquid Solana spot market becomes a candidate for margin. Only possible on @solana

What is sovereignty What is fragmentation

I’ve said many times that the CLARITY Act is essential to ensuring America wins the global race for new technology. That’s the reason Congress passed the GENIUS Act: to ensure that stablecoin infrastructure, a revolutionary financial technology, will be built in America. Ensuring that America’s community bank sector continues to thrive has been a constant focus of mine since day one. And the administration’s dual focus on enabling new digital technology to flourish and appropriately tailoring community bank regulation is key to both sectors driving U.S. economic growth together over the next several decades. The final draft of the CLARITY Act furthers this mission. It gives the Secretary of the Treasury additional authority to act if the facts around deposit flight change to the detriment of community banks. If stablecoins cause harm to community banks, I will not hesitate to use these tools to ensure they remain fully protected. Community banks are essential to U.S. economic performance and Main Street growth. Economic security is national security, and community banks play a major role in this principle.

Solana is the most battle-tested network. Each stress test on Solana has been met with major improvements by the core engineering teams and further improved the network resiliency time over time. Solana's resiliency isn't just about surviving the worst days, but also making ambition for a better future possible. thestreet.com/crypto/innovat…

Michael is a tremendous talent we are lucky to have in the Solana ecosystem. Have been a fan of Kamino for years and I am excited to work with Kamino in their new phase of growth

solana is back as the biggest route for the trading terminal volume