Throw back to my first Beakpoint 25’ at Abu Dhabi - the best interview process ever @solana ! And if you haven’t got your ticket for Breakpoint 26’ at London, BOOK NOW https://t.co/ufVK3Mcz1l
“Tokenization is just a digital receipt. What makes it productive is the ability to borrow against it as collateral.”
@cheryldchan, Head of Strategy and Growth at @kamino on why institutions are putting tokenized assets to work on Solana.
BREAKING: Anchorpoint brings HKDAP, the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, to Solana.
In its first collaboration with a public network, HKDAP will mint and redeem natively on Solana, settling near-instantly and reaching everything from retail payments to tokenized assets.
We put Solana on the big screen because that’s the big heart Solana has for the Chinese community, and that’s the warm welcome we are so thankful to feel from the Chinese community.
Due to the publicity, event registrations quadrupled overnight, far exceeding the event cap we had registered with local authorities, and we had no way to prevent people from overwhelming the venue.
So, in order to comply with local requirements, we are going to postpone this event for when we can better accommodate the breadth and scale of our community.
Apologies to everyone who came from near and far to come be part of Solana in Shanghai.
See you soon!
F1 might be the greatest scam of the decade
Totally unwatchable IRL, 50x oversupplied for paddock tickets who are just random IBM and Oracle employees, and full of new environment propaganda
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BREAKING: Samsung partners with Solana to bring stablecoins to 82 million US Galaxy devices.
Samsung Wallet users in the US will be able to send money across borders using USDC on Solana, beginning the last week of October.
Four cities. One community. Connected by the same instinct: to build.
Solana Accelerate China, October 16 to 22.
China's founders, developers and investors together with builders from the global Solana ecosystem for live demos, technical deep dives and first-hand lessons on getting from zero to one, and going global.
Register for your city 👇
Good new first: Sol is a smart, efficient, and a significant step forward. It is the same price as GPT-5.5. Also launching in the GPT-5.6 family is Terra, with 5.5-level performance at half the price.
Bad news: at the request of the US government, it is launching today in limited preview instead of the open access launch we were planning on. We are working with the government to get to general availability as fast as we can.
I think it is quite reasonable to roll out models--especially as they reach significant new levels of capability--in this way. It fits with our long-held strategy of iterative deployment. But this isn't quite the process that we think is optimal.
Now we will with the government to attempt to get to a transparent, reliable process for early access, and to ensure that as long as our safeguards work as intended we can release widely. We want to be a reliable, dependable partner that works with all stakeholders, and we also want to live by our mission of benefiting all of humanity. I believe the government shares most of our goals, and that they are overall doing a good job in a very difficult situation.
We will work as quickly as we can to get this model in your hands and we hope you will love it.
Every week there will be someone building a new blockchain
This week’s version “We already process billions in payments, so we’ll PUMP the volume onto the chain”
That’s a bit like saying “We already have lots of cars driving through the city, therefore we can build another NYC”
Mastercard’s AP4M launches with Solana as one of the first blockchains for agent identity & credentialing — alongside 30+ partners including Coinbase, Stripe & Adyen.
Machine-speed payments. On-chain trust. This is what agentic infrastructure looks like. 🔐
As AI agents begin to act, payments move into the background — at machine speed and massive scale.
Today we’re introducing Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines — bringing structure, governance, and trust to this new class of payments.
Launching with 30+ partners to bring this to life from day one.
This isn’t just more payments. It’s a new operating model for commerce.
👉 Learn more: https://t.co/TeS6Lj8jLO
Exactly the right problems to name! In fact the whole ecosystem is trying to solve them. But the solution isn’t a new L1 — it’s a compliant fiat interface layered on top of existing high-performance infrastructure. The chain is ready @solana
Everyone is talking about stablecoins.
But nobody is talking about:
the speed of on ramp and off ramp
the liquidity between stablecoin and fiat
the global compliance layer
Feels like someone need to solve all the issues above
Makes me wonder… do we need a purpose-built Layer 1 for real-world payments?