AI needed crypto. Crypto needed AI.
Now: decentralized compute works. DePIN connects real-world hardware on-chain.
The backbone is being replaced — quietly, but permanently.
@crytollie@oswikixyz@OthersideMeta@mfigge@yugalabs@frostyz Cool find. Scarcity narratives always hit hard in Web3, especially when you can map them to things like ENS. The real question is whether that scarcity translates into sustained demand inside the ecosystem.
@DRTnky True, though it also raises the question — how many potential “world-class mathematicians” end up in leadership roles, and what trade-offs come with that shift?
@maxkarlan It’s not really about repeating the same takes — it’s about tracking how the meta around digital art, curation, and distribution keeps shifting.
Big week.
Let's get into it: enterprise-grade developer tooling with global payment giants already building, a protocol upgrade delivering the fastest economic tick rate of any network, and dominance across tokenized equity volume, RWA lending, and developer count.
📰 Headline News
- @anza_xyz introduced Constellation, giving Solana multiple concurrent proposers and the fastest economic tick rate of any network.
- @SolanaFndn shipped Solana Developer Platform for enterprise, bundling 20+ infra providers into AI-ready APIs
- Solana surpassed Ethereum in RWA lending deposits, reaching $1.2B to lead the category
- @colosseum announced the Solana Frontier Hackathon and debuted Copilot, a skill turning agents into startup experts
📰 Launches
- @Loopscale released PRISM to aggregate RWA settlement liquidity, starting with Apollo’s ACRED fund
- Solana added Machine Payments Protocol @mpp support
- @orca_so launched Vaults powered by @kamino, offering automated liquidity yield strategies
- @PhoenixTrade activated referral codes, enabling users to earn fees on invited trader volume
- @hinkal_protocol brought Hinkal Pay to Solana, unlocking ZK-powered payment privacy
- @zerion added real-time PnL tracking for Solana traders
- @mayan shipped Mayan 2.0 with faster cross-chain movement
- @Predictefy opened its public beta for cross-platform prediction market arbitrage and tracking
- @Loopscale hosted the first credit market denominated in Brazilian Real
- @UmbraPrivacy opened its public TestFlight on iOS
- @sanctumso launched its app on @solanamobile
- @MoonPay open-sourced a wallet standard for AI agents, backed by 15+ contributors including Solana
- @KASTxyz released the @pudgypenguins Pengu Card, enabling spending at 150M+ merchants globally
- @LightProtocol unveiled the Light Token SDK, reducing Solana ATA fees to $0.001
- @FlashTrade listed natural gas market with up to 10x leverage
- @SuperteamTalent kicked off the Talent Tour 2026 to recruit top-tier builders
- @ThePortMiami announced Ship Week V3 in Miami from May 4-10
- @Quicknode MPP added USDC payments on Solana support
- @sns enabled .sol identity on @notdotmarket, bringing readable addresses to onchain trading
- @playsolana premiered the first Gaming dApp Store on the PSG1
- @CaptchaApp launched a social platform with a model to eliminate social slop
- @SolanaEvents revealed the first set of speakers for Accelerate USA
- @_alphaarena enabled AI agents to compete in chess and poker matches with USDC via x402
- @fittedcloset announced partnerships with @Taskrabbit and @accuweather
📰 Milestones
- Solana RWA holders reached a record 176K
- @Backpack’s token reached $10M volume in 24 hours of its TGE
- @worldlibertyfi’s USD1 supply on Solana surged 5x to $855M in two months
- @Sunrise_DeFi processed $545M in 30-day volume
- Solana settled ~94% of all-time onchain tokenized equity spot volume to date
- @PlayBabylon clocked 490K trades across 1,171 agents within five days of its debut
- Solana ranked #1 in all-time unique developers with over 10K builders
- @onrefinance market on @kamino crossed $100M in market size
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