$2 trillion in quarterly stablecoin transfers. $300M+ in monthly payments. Fractions of a penny in fees.
Here's why the biggest names in finance choose to build on Solana 🧵
Strategy has acquired 2,486 BTC for ~$168.4 million at ~$67,710 per bitcoin. As of 2/16/2026, we hodl 717,131 $BTC acquired for ~$54.52 billion at ~$76,027 per bitcoin. $MSTR $STRC https://t.co/wvxRYZlQ3Y
Yesterday in data on @Solana:
- Sustained an average of 1852 TPS (ATH)
- Biggest day for aggregators since 10/10, implying a ton of retail users came to trade
- Fee volatility remained the lowest across all chains, and median fees were the lowest across all major chains at $0.000487
Basically, Solana reached never before seen usage and yet users paid predictably low fees for execution
During this same period, Base experienced inclusion delays, with many users reporting the chain was unusable, and the median fee users paid to transact was 26x (!!!) that of Solana's
Other notes:
- ATH on tokenized stock volume
- Record USDT availability on Solana, crossing over $3b in supply for the first time
- Excluding 10/10, biggest day for some foreign wrapped tokens including Ethereum, and HYPE on Solana had it's biggest volume day ever
- More wallets made a transaction on Solana than all other chains combined yesterday
We're teaming up with @mtndao to host their first ever Demo Day on February 25th 🏔️
This will be the first stop on our mission to find and showcase the best new builders and products of 2026, on the road to Breakpoint
This week, Solana went from everything to everywhere.
From the check-in counters at Tokyo Haneda Airport to the traditional trading floors and into the hands of AI agents, Solana is the backbone for it all.
Here's what happened this week:
📰 Headline News
- @WisdomTreeFunds expanded its full suite of regulated tokenized funds to Solana
- @21shares launched JSOL, the first European ETP backed by @jito_sol
- @SolanaFndn unveiled Contra, a new enterprise payment stack
📰 Launches
- @SolanaConf Accelerate USA lands in Miami on May 5, 2026
- @moonbirds, @Mantle_Official, @infinex, and @HyperliquidX tokens went live on Solana
- @JupiterExchange shipped Jupiter Global with QR Pay, Virtual Currency Accounts and USDC Credit Card
- @WEAJapan’s first USDC retail pilot launched at Tokyo Haneda Airport on Solana
- @TradeNeutral has launched JLP Delta Neutral
- @HalbornSecurity released the SSTS open-source framework for compliant onchain securities
- @fuseenergy demoed its Energy Network product
- @SuperstateInc's USCC went live as a collateral on @Kamino
- @Polymarket launched on Jupiter, bringing the predictions platform to Solana for the first time
- @MarinadeFinance introduced Dynamic Commission for validators to set custom rates
- @GhostWareOS shipped GhostSwap, a private cross-chain swap
- @SolanaFloor launched an institutional livestream
- @mtndao summit started at Salt Lake City
- @bulktrade released 500 testnet access passes
📰 Milestones
- Tokenized stock value on Solana hit an ATH of $230M
- @orogoldapp TVL surged past $3M
- @RemoraMarkets crossed $7M in TVL
- @encifherio reached 14M volume in private beta
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This week's cover art by @inkartluis 🔥
US city rankings, according to Solana research:
1. NYC
2. San Francisco
3. Austin
4. Chicago
5. Los Angeles
6. Baltimore
7. Toronto
8. Nuuk
9. Minneapolis
10. Newark
11. Miami
12. Detroit
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We just turbo-charged the JavaScript SDK to break the Node.js single-thread limit.
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NEW: Deeper coverage of stablecoins on @solana is now live
- $15.98b stablecoin supply
- USDC accounts for 66% of supply
- USDC leads 7d growth, with supply expanding 6.9%