Happy 6th birthday Solana fam.
They said quit. The builders stayed.
They said it's dead. The code persisted.
They said move on. The network's never been stronger.
Just one more hard quarter.
Nasdaq's tokenized equity markets getting a bridge into Solana DeFi. A global insurance broker settling premiums in stablecoins. An AI agent running prediction markets and ordering you dinner from a single balance. Same settlement layer. Different centuries of finance.
Here's what shipped this week:
📰 Headline News
- Solana joined @Mastercard's Crypto Partner Program
- @Aon_plc settled the first stablecoin insurance premium using PYUSD on Solana via @Paxos
- @Sunrise_DeFi brought AVAX to Solana for native asset trading
📰 Launches
- @xStocksFi unveiled a framework to connect @Nasdaq's tokenized equity markets with Solana DeFi
- @vanishTrade integrated with @Titan_Exchange, enabling instant private trading for any token
- @perena launched its first curated USDT vault on Solana in collaboration with @GlowFinanceXYZ
- SIMD-266 (P-Token) approved to slash token transfer costs and boost network capacity with mainnet targeted for April
- @doublezero introduced DoubleZero Edge for real-time market data to traders and market participants
- @incubator kicked off Cohort 4 of Solana startups
- @trendsdotfun and @solana launched the Agent Economy Hackathon with $30K in prizes
- @duel_duck enabled custom predictions with any SPL token on its social prediction market
- @SuperteamUSA launched to support founders in the USA
- @SharkPoolSol announced a Solana On-Campus Tour spanning 15 U.S. university events this semester
- @moonshot debuted Leverage for 250x long/shorts via Apple Pay
- @Exodus rolled out XO Cash, a native USD-backed stablecoin powered by @moonpay
- @EasyA_Kickstart went live on Solana with idea coins for launching, trading, and backing projects
- @agentcashdev enabled agents to access 250+ APIs via a unified USDC balance
- @PalmUSD's PUSD, backed 1:1 by AED + SAR reserves, went live on Solana
- @Ant_Fun_Trade integrated @dflow's infrastructure into its perps DEX
- @SolanaInstitute announced Solana Summit: Washington x Wall Street on April 13 in NYC, convening finance and policy leaders on DeFi's future
- @superteam and @ns partnered to offer promising Solana startups their first month free at Network School
- @Macropod_AU launched its regulated Australian-dollar stablecoin, AUDM on Solana
- @anagramxyz introduced @solanaclawagent, an AI agent framework executing Solana transactions via WhatsApp or Telegram
- @staratlas released a major update with Holosim Chapter 2
- @agentcardai released AgentCard, giving agents the ability to pay for anything from APIs to Ubers to Prediction Market trades
- BlockRunAI expanded to Solana, which now accounts for 30% of its total volume within 8 days
- @surfcashx went live in Nigeria
- @trycallshot opened the waitlist for its next-gen fantasy sports platform
- @fittedcloset showcased its Solana-powered AI wardrobe assistant in GQ
📰 Milestones
- @useKled raised a $5.5M seed round to build the first human data marketplace with payments on Solana
- @kamino's PRIME Market climbed to $570M in market size
- @KASTxyz raised $80M in Series A co-led by QED Investors and Left Lane Capital
- @crediblefin processed $350M+ in payment volume in five months, with over 50% of transactions on Solana
- @stormrae_ai set a new benchmark for public AI red-teaming with ~15K participants in its Solana-based gamified adversarial challenge
- @onrefinance deposits on surpassed $80M, now ranking as Kamino's 3rd largest RWA market
7 weeks until we Accelerate in the USA!
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🚨BUY COMPETITION JUST OPENED 🚨
If IMG holds $1M market cap for 24 hours:
🔥 1,000,000 IMG burned
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AND starting now:
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for $500 buys
The engine is running.
Let’s see who wants it.
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@tvbzify@imgprotocol with $50k you can buy 65.000.000 $img, earning about +35sol × day at 1 million$ daily volume. In the past it performed even better.
@Surge100x@imgprotocol , i'm gaining sol rewards yet. But when this diamond will hit 100m MC, volume will be so high i will make 10k/day in passive income
GM ☀️♾️
$IMG was born when this space needed it most.
When rugs were everywhere.
When pump & dumps ran wild.
When trust was rare.
Then came the first real test.
A brilliant idea…
Mistreated by its creators.
Rewards siphoned.
A flash crash that shook everything.
Most projects die there.
We didn’t.
The community stood up.
Locked arms.
Refused to fold.
And from the ashes… we rebuilt.
Stronger.
Smarter.
More united.
$IMG wasn’t handed greatness.
It was forged in fire.
Built to last.
Unshakable.
Unbreakable.
This isn’t just a token.
It’s a movement that survived the storm.
And we’re still here.
Still building.
Still printing.
Still rising. ⚙️♾️
Let’s make history again today.
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There could be 2 possible types of person not buying $IMG
1. Retired, he’s probably rich af with no money issues and retired.
2. Retarded, he is a big retard who apes shit coin only to make a quick bag but gets rugged everytime.