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$MAXIM is live and available to trade.
@heydotlol - the creator stock market
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fast & cheap blockchain won’t matter in the future
only ecosystem and distribution
update: after careful deliberation from the team in the last 24 hours
world has made the decision to migrate off of solana and onto @RobinhoodCrypto chain
this tactful pivot was not made lightly
our sincere appreciation goes out to the solana foundation and community
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Ben retweeted
what we are about to do has never been done before
6 months of blood sweat and tears was all worth it
thank you to our early supporters 🙏
HEYER.
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We simplified OpenFacilitator.
No signups.
No accounts.
No rate limits.
Just point your x402 app at our free facilitator, or fork our open source repository when you need full control.
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A bank your parents have heard of. A payments app your roommate uses. A checkout that takes stablecoins. All shipped on Solana this week.
Here's everything that happened:
📰 Headline News
- Solana captured 97% of cumulative tokenized equities spot trading volume
- @AnodosFinance announced its expansion to Solana to launch its flagship superapp
- @CashApp rolled out stablecoin support, including USDC on Solana
📰 Launches
- @SoFi launched SoFiUSD (SoFiD) on Solana, the first stablecoin from a U.S. nationally chartered bank
- @tokens opened public access to the Assets API
- @streamex and @orca_so launched 24/7 onchain secondary liquidity for regulated tokenized securities
- @WalletConnect added Solana compatibility to WalletConnect Pay for merchant stablecoin and token spending
- @shefiorg partnered with Solana to launch its largest educational cohort to date
- @ExponentFinance activated Exponent v2, introducing strategy vaults and risk-tranching swaps
- @refihub scheduled ReFi Hub’s launch on Crafts to establish global energy infrastructure as tokenized Solana RWA
- @onrefinance expanded ONyc liquidity and fixed-rate infrastructure via integrations with @ExponentFinance and @Loopscale
- @JupiterExchange initiated the Public Beta of its Offerbook, a fixed-rate credit platform enabling borrowing against any token, NFT, or trading card
- @OREsupply advanced its progressive freeze strategy
- @Dominion_Market launched 1:1 asset-backed physical silver tokenization natively on Solana
- @totalistrading activated cross-market parlays on Solana, allowing unified trades across macroeconomics, sports, and politics
- @tradeonhunch released an advanced trading terminal and prediction market aggregator
- @UmbraPrivacy teamed with @streamflow_fi to implement private token vesting infrastructure
- @zinc_cash shipped a private proof-of-work mining protocol on Solana powered by @Arcium
- Solana launched its official TikTok account
- @bonk_inu opened waitlist access to BONKUJI, its dedicated trading cards platform
- @Beezie brought its collectibles platform and the Claw IRL to collectors at its Card Show in Seoul
- @heydotlol rolled out Communities v2, delivering upgraded token-gating and anti-spam verification tools for ecosystem projects
- @termina_tech introduced a historical mainnet simulation environment for developers to backtest DeFi logic
- @blueshift released Web3.js 3.0, rebuilding solana/web3.js on Kit
- @sunrise brought DEUS from @xmaquina natively to Solana
- @packetchat deployed Packet MCP to equip autonomous AI agents with wallet-native inboxes and sovereign payment rails
- @codecopenflow launched SimArena, a browser-based robotics simulator that generates training data directly from URL
- @wingbits introduced an AI platform enabling natural language tracking and autonomous agent alerts for real-time aviation data
- @SolanaInstitute announced the Solana Summit: Washington x Wall Street event in Chicago for June 16
- @SolanaFndn joined the Open Transaction Layer as a founding partner to develop cross-chain standards
- @UmbraPrivacy wallet app launched on the iOS app store
- AlmaU signed an MOU to integrate Solana blockchain development into its academic curriculum
📰 Milestones
- @solsticefi surpassed $500M in TVL
- @mayan crossed 1M external wallets bridged to Solana, with $2.5B+ in stablecoins moved across 600K+ transactions
- Solana hit a new record high of over 200K onchain tokenized stock holders
If you enjoyed this week’s newsletter, please share it with an RT.
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Ben retweeted
Most token communities do not fail because people are stupid, they fail because the social layer around them is designed in a way that makes bad behavior cheaper than real participation.
This is the part most people underestimate. Open access sounds neutral, almost democratic, until you remember that spam costs nothing, scam links take seconds to post, fake conviction is easy to manufacture, and honest community building is slow, expensive and usually invisible for a long time.
When real holders, tourists, bots, scammers and mercenary attention farmers all have the same access, the result is not openness. The result is noise.
That is what makes hey.lol Communities interesting, not as a list of features, but as a different design assumption.
A holders only filter is not just an anti spam tool. It changes the cost of participation. If joining, posting or replying can be restricted to actual holders, then the community is no longer only defined by attention, but by some minimum level of economic alignment.
That does not magically create trust, and pretending otherwise would be naive. But it does remove one of the biggest structural problems of crypto communities: the fact that everyone can pretend to belong without having anything at stake.
Then real-time balances, token metrics, community badges, search, analytics, moderation tools, crossposts and quotes start to make more sense. They are not random social features, they are pieces of infrastructure around the same idea: make token communities visible, searchable, harder to fake and easier to govern.
The difference is solana:HEYKwDJRoSsiLNQ9F9bZFKo7yxum1WbTFCgiHTX5h6tb
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Ben retweeted
if i'm in a trade, everyone who sells is retarded
if i sold, everyone who buys is retarded
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Silicon Valley: “fail fast.”
Crypto: “you’re a fucking scammer, kill yourself.”
Then people wonder why founders disappear, go anonymous, and stop caring the second things go wrong.
people in crypto need to understand the difference between failure and rugging.
it is human nature to fail. your favourite billionaire probably failed somewhere along the way before they became successful. they learned from their mistakes and tried again.
but in crypto, if the founder of a project fails we immediately label them a rugger. we cannot treat a founder who genuinely had good intentions but failed the same way we treat a malicious scammer whose intentions all along were to steal peoples money.
this toxic mindset is actively hurting the space. so many talented builders with great ideas are afraid to execute or go public because they know that if things don’t pan out perfectly, they’ll be treated like criminals.
if we want to see more tech innovation and long term growth this culture must change. crypto should be a safe space for builders.
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I use $GSD a lot.
I don’t have a bag, but I get why he left.
This space eats people alive sometimes.
Could never be me though.
I’m here forever.
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I know for a fact @devvinggold does it for the love of the game.
not enough people doing things for the love of the game anymore
too much money, status, politics involved
ultimately you should just do things cause you like doing things
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