A chain that built its own network just voted to close it and move to Solana.
99.4 percent said yes. This is not a bridge. The old chain winds down.
The token is issued again on Solana. Watch the second vote.
Software agents are starting to hold wallets and spend on their own.
That is the shift that matters this week. Crypto is the payment layer.
The rules on those wallets will decide who lasts.
Today the people who write America's financial rules sit with Solana in Washington.
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins closes the summit. Hester Peirce, the White House, and Congress share the room.
This is a permission story, not a price story.
Solana just expanded real equity ownership onchain. Sunrise listed 20 more 1:1 backed stocks via Backpack Securities.
Trade Nike, Moderna, Micron and more 24/7 with real custody and onchain settlement.
Quiet progress that compounds.
Circle just minted $3B USDC on Solana in 24 hours.
One of the largest single-day issuances. Solana USDC supply now exceeds $8B and over 10% of global total. Institutional dollar liquidity is clearly shifting.
Solana Transaction V1 goes live on mainnet September 9.
The network raises maximum transaction size from 1,232 to 4,096 bytes.
Infrastructure that removes old constraints and supports the next stage of serious applications.
Solana just cut account storage costs.
Step 1 of the 90% rent reduction is now live on mainnet.
New token accounts will cost far less. Builders and users both benefit.
Quiet infrastructure upgrade with real long-term impact.
Solana just unlocked machine-speed payments.
One million payments per second in testing. Authorize once, spend freely, settle once. Built for AI agents. Alibaba Cloud is already connected. This changes how capital and machines move on Solana.
Jupiter just made it simple to move money onto Solana.
Send a token from Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, or Sui and receive native USDC in one step. Flat fee: $0.30.
That is the door capital will use.
A U.S. judge dismissed Solana Labs & Solana Foundation from the Pump.fun lawsuit. The network is no longer a defendant. Two tokens failed test. Trading is not gambling under New York law. The remaining fight sits with the app, not the chain.
Public blockchains publish every transfer. Grayscale warns that AI can join those records to real people. That is the third wave of financial privacy risk. Open proof still matters. Hidden personal detail is becoming a basic safety layer.
Solana just finished its first binding on-chain vote. New coin creation will now shrink twice as fast. That means 18.9 million fewer SOL over six years. Large firms are buying at the same time. Full analysis below.