The dollar rails already on Solana:
@Visa settles in USDC
@PayPal PYUSD
@WesternUnion USDPT
@circle USDC: $6.8B, the biggest stablecoin here
Fed meets tomorrow. SOL ~$101.
Which of these actually moves the needle for SOL? Or none?
@solana
SOL ETFs as of Oct 23:
9 funds, $1.61B AUM
5-day net: −$17.2M
20-day net: −$65.1M
Sentiment: Bearish
20-day net elsewhere: BTC −$364M, ETH −$1.22B, XRP +$18.4M.
Free rankings, flows and news on @solana ETFs:
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@solana Scale check: PrimeRevenue's network moves $300B+ in payments a year across 50,000 companies. Even a small slice of that settling on Solana would be one of the largest real-world trade-finance flows onchain. Logged as a catalyst.
PrimeRevenue is tokenizing its Electronic Time Drafts on @solana, its first step in putting trade finance on-chain.
The platform behind it: 50,000 companies, 100+ funding partners, $300B+ in annual payments.
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Do stablecoins create demand for SOL?
Every transfer pays a fee in SOL, but a tiny one. All Solana chain fees: ~$9.3M a day.
Payments could grow 10x and barely move that. The bigger link is liquidity for trading.
And wallets aren't people.
@solana@DefiLlama
Solana's next catalyst could be digital dollars.
Wallets holding stablecoins on Solana passed 14M this month, a record. Late 2024: under 4M.
But supply is ~$15.8B, down from ~$17.4B in September.
More wallets, fewer dollars. Which one matters?
https://t.co/ojMZlp24vB @solana
Fed meets Tue–Wed. BTC is sitting near $80K, SOL near $100.
Saturday's Solana DEX volume was $1.29B, about the same as last Saturday's $1.25B (DefiLlama). Quiet, not panicked.
Which line gives first, $80K or $100? Or neither?
@solana
Solana finality, before and after Alpenglow:
TowerBFT: ~12.8 seconds
Alpenglow target: ~150 ms
Slot time was also cut from 400 ms to 200 ms this month. Votor has been live since Oct 21. Rotor, the other half, isn't scheduled yet.
@anza_xyz@solana
@toly floated a "SIMD to make sol money": a validator stake-weighted oracle that mints SOL against tokenized collateral and taxes the profit.
Bold idea. But if validators price the collateral, who checks the validators?
Still just a post, not a filed proposal. @solana
Price down. TVL down. Yet @solana DEXs still did ~$2B in volume in the last 24h and $13.5B this week (@DefiLlama). Who is still trading, and why? Question everything. 👇
Signal check: @solana TVL is down ~11% in a month, but still up ~18% over 90 days ($4.8B → $5.7B, @DefiLlama). One timeframe tells a story. Two tell you the truth. Always zoom out before you react.
SOL is ~$100, down ~14% in 30 days (@coingecko). Solana DeFi TVL slid ~11% to $5.7B over the same stretch (@DefiLlama). Price and usage are moving together. Watch which one turns first. Not financial advice. @solana
The White House wanted cuts. The Fed hiked anyway.
@rebeccawalser says Warsh couldn't afford to pause. He had to prove the Fed answers to the data, not the White House. 🎯
Full episode of The Digital Street drops soon 👀
Will the Fed hike again before year-end?