The clock just ticked faster.
From a 350ms slot record to healthcare stocks to an actual dinosaur fossil, with $230B of Wall Street fixed income along the way. All of it sounded crazy until this week.
Here's what shipped ๐
๐ฐ Headline News
- Solana reduced its slot time to 350ms, marking the first slot time reduction
- Shinhan Asset Management partnered with @SolanaFndn, @etherfuse, and @orca_so to build a KRW tokenized fund
- @Securitize and @neubergerberman launched HINC on Solana, drawing on Neubergerโs $230B+ asset-management platform
๐ฐ Launches
- @NexusMutual made its non-EVM debut on Solana, opening public coverage across @kamino, @JupiterExchange, @Raydium, and @orca_so
- $LLY (Eli Lilly) and $MRNA (Moderna) went live on Solana via @sunrise, issued by @Backpack Securities
- @moonpay added @CashApp Pay, letting eligible US users buy Solana assets directly from their Cash App balance
- @Backpack introduced Graphs for multi-metric stock analysis and thesis charting
- @solanamobile launched the USDC Earn Vault in Seed Vault Wallet powered by @kamino
- @tryramp enabled funding for agent wallets to execute purchases via x402 on Solana
- @sphere_labs added Onramper Accounts to its dashboard for automatic USD/EUR bank-to-stablecoin routing on Solana
- @Interstice_Dig partnered with @FalconXGlobal to launch institutional cross-chain swaps on Solana
- @JupiterExchange added direct DeFi position management to Portfolio v2
- @clawpumptech kicked off AnsemHack Clawrena with $320K in prizes
- @solanamobile rolled out the final round of Seeker Summer
- @MeteoraAG shipped custom DLMM alerts for out-of-range liquidity and PnL targets
- @JurassicFi launched the raise for Deaton, the first tokenized dinosaur fossil on Solana
- @fomo integrated real-time Solana news, ships, and announcements directly into its trading terminal
- @solflare teased an upcoming perps trading experience
- Solana School Fall Class applications entered their final days ahead of the August 31 kickoff
- Breakpoint 2026 lands in London in less than 90 days
๐ฐ Milestones
- Solanaโs total RWA value surpassed $4B
- Tokenized equities supply on Solana crossed $465M to reach a new weekly ATH
- @Raydium crossed $4B in cumulative tokenized stock volume
- Solana recorded 216M non-vote transactions in a single day, setting a new ATH
- @kamino Institutional Commodity Yield Vault reached $30M capacity
- @fomo climbed into the Top 3 Finance apps in the U.S. App Store
- @Solmateโs treasury reached ~1.25M SOL
- @commonsmadeโs VibeFi campaign crossed 100K posts
- $MRNA surpassed $4.5M in onchain volume in its first 24 hours on Solana
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