TradFi and AI agents just found common ground. It's Solana.
A white-glove trading program for institutions went live. Agents started managing DAOs, funding their own keys, and deploying tokens via X.
Here’s what happened over the week:
📰 Headline News
- @SolanaFndn unveiled an institutional-grade Trading Program offering white-glove onboarding
- @Arcium Mainnet Alpha went live
- @solana and @colosseum launched Agent Hackathon with $100K in prizes
📰 Launches
- @solanamobile announced its second hackathon with over $125K prize pool
- House of Sol members club opened in London for Solana builders and institutions
- @FlashTrade added inverse Forex pairs with up to 500x leverage
- @dflow released DFlow Proof for onchain identity verification
- @OnePieceLabs announced Solana Bootcamp - APAC
- @derp_trade unlocked up to 5x leverage for @Kalshi markets
- @GustoHQ tapped Solana for global, same-day contractor payments in USDC
- @epochdotm introduced private prediction markets powered by @Arcium
- @bankrbot empowered AI agents to deploy tokens via @Raydium using X tags
- @BagsApp shipped Agentic Authentication, allowing AI agents with autonomous wallet actions
- @realmsdaos became agent ready, allowing AI agents to manage DAOs
- @t54ai debuted Claw Credit for AI agents to earn and spend their own credit lines
- @craftsdev implemented a sealed-bid auction mechanism for fair price discovery
- @opendelta_ rolled out NX8, a crypto-native L1 index built with @nansen_ai
- @neukoai closed its pre-seed round, backed by @solanaventures
- @solana_devs upgraded the official documentation to be LLM-ready
- @VeryAI released ClawKey, a tool to link AI agents to verified owners onchain
- @moltmatch shipped a dating platform for AI agents
- @heliuslabs enabled AI agents to generate and fund their own API keys via CLI
- @predictandpump released Solana Skills for @openclaw agents to launch/trade prediction markets
- @sns and @SuperteamMY join to host SNS month in April at @ns
- @lotrydotfun announced its migration to Solana
- @mtndao set its inaugural Demo Day for February 25
- @Tessera_PE revealed its tokenized private equity platform, arriving later this month
- @PreStocks integrated Polymarket offering 1:1 synthetic equity exposure
- @turbine_cash Private DCA went live
- @Pumpfun acquired @TradeonVyper trading terminal
- @surfcashx launched on the App Store
- @Tramplin_io launched a non-custodial pooled staking with randomized rewards
- @SolanaConf Accelerate Hong Kong and Consumer Day are set for next week
📰 Milestones
- @humafinance scaled past $10B PayFi transactions
- @SuperteamEarn total user earnings hit $10M
- @x402 weekly transaction volume was 80% driven by Solana
- @RaiseNetwork_ surpassed $11M in monthly onchain volume
- @Sunrise_DeFi’s INX launch processed $2.8M in volume within its first 24 hours
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