The Fluid Era expands to @SwissBorg 🌊
FLUID token is now live on one of Europe’s most prominent apps.
Featuring 15 fiat pairs including EUR, GBP, CHF, and more.
It was, indeed, a Big Week. Markets in mayhem, crying in the casino, and buddies learned Chinese.
But the lion does not concern himself with anything other than shipping – and Solana’s ecosystem shipped this week like never before.
Here's everything that happened 👇
📰 Headline news:
- Ecosystem entities addressed how they dealt with crypto’s largest liquidation event ever, including Anza, Temporal, Helius, Triton, Titan Exchange, DFlow, Drift, Kamino, DeFiTuna, and Carrot
- @Sorare, partnered with the NBA, MLB, and other major leagues, is migrating 5 million players to Solana by October end for enhanced speed and liquidity
- @UmbraPrivacy's ownership coin raise on @MetaDAOProject received $155M committed
- @Hivemapper raised $32 million and launched a $19/month camera subscription
- @AxiomExchange hit $300M in revenue in just 263 days, the fastest startup to do so in recorded history
- 58 days until @SolanaConf - are you registered?
📰 Launches:
- @americadotfun went live, enabling projects to launch with USD1, partnered with @bonkfun, @worldlibertyfi, @trendsdotfun, and @RaydiumProtocol
- @AmbiosNetwork launched an air quality sensor DePIN
- @ChintaiNexus expands tokenized institutional RWAs to Solana
- @pipenetwork, a CDN DePIN, went live on mainnet
- @audius launched the Open Audio Protocol with Artist coins
- @luxdotgg launched a platform delivering micropayments for streamers
- @gitfish V2 launched, turning GitHub projects into tradable coins
- @deksxyz launched gift cards loaded with tokenized stocks
- @deplaydotfun launched one-tap prediction markets on @solanamobile
- @ninaprotocol introduced Community Revenue Share powered by Solana
- @Titan_Exchange now powers @Backpack Wallet swaps
- @quanto enabled Raydium LP tokens as collateral
- @devfun launched an incubator
- @streamflow_fi is now exclusively available on Solana
- @dripshop_live is launching tokenized trading cards on Solana
- @DeSciNews launched to cover science & biotech news on Solana
📰 Tokens:
- @mert posted “Zolana” 800 times, leading to privacy app @encifherio bridging ZEC to Solana
- @wormhole announced $HYPE is now available on Solana
- @joinrepublic opened investments in unicorn tech co Databricks via $rDBRCK
- @bandsdotfun launched an onchain @Claynosaurz strategy
📰 Milestones:
- TVL hit an all-time high of $42.4 billion
- Stablecoin supply peaked over $16 billion for the first time
- USDG supply up $400 million since June, now higher than all other networks
- @solsticefi’s USX crossed $200M TVL
- @uselulo surged past $100M in deposits
- @orogoldapp reached $1m in TVL
- @KYDLabs announced they reached 100 million Spotify listeners in Q3
- @wardenprotocol said 60% of their activity is on Solana
- @indiedotfun hit $1 million in funding raised for indie devs
- @tashiprotocol scaled to 50k live nodes
- @grass raised $10m from Polychain and Tribe
Massive respect to all the teams building and shipping. If we didn't catch your launch, tag it in the replies and show the world.
We’ll see you next week 🫡
(This week's art provided by @suji_pop)
All assets will be digital assets.
Today, paperwork grants property rights for assets. Fundamentally, those rights are backed by nation states and the threat of violence for impeding upon those rights.
Tokenization replaces paperwork-based property rights with cryptography-based ownership. It makes those assets secure, global, and non-violent at the root.
Tokenization makes every asset compatible with stablecoins and DeFi. That's why institutions and the entities that custody assets are running towards crypto.
Once the root of ownership lay in the hands of the people, the people also invent assets that couldn't exist with paper.
User-generated assets like memecoins, creator coins, NFTs, and so on are internet-native assets that expand upon the fundamental idea of what an asset can be.
An asset is only an asset if it can be traded. If it cannot be traded, it cannot be valued. The more easily it can be traded, the more easily that every seller finds its buyer, and vice versa, the more liquid those assets are.
And therefore, every crypto network will ultimately compete on the vector of how efficiently they can match supply and demand. And that ultimately is a question of technology and the products built on top, and the community therefore derived.
This is all a very long way of letting you know that the name of that crypto network where all assets will become digital assets is Solana.
The Solflare Card is coming.
And with it $100,000 in rewards!
This isn’t just a waitlist.
It’s a competition.
It’s a raffle.
It’s your chance to join early and win big while climbing the leaderboard.
Here’s how 👇
Keel, the newest Star in the Sky Ecosystem, is the last to take the stage at Stars in the Sky.
Cian Breathnach (@crocdundalk), Founder & CEO of Matariki Labs, contributors to @keel_fi, will present Keel’s $2.5 billion roadmap to unlock the next phase of growth in Solana DeFi.
You can now register and use your very own .sol name to send and receive funds directly in MetaMask. 🟣🦊
With @sns, your wallet just got way more human. Here’s how it works 👇
Introducing the Solana Cypherpunk Hackathon, powered by @Colosseum!
🌏An online, global Solana hackathon
🏁Product submissions due by October 30, 2025
🏆Colosseum’s fund to invest $2.5 million in winners
Join crypto’s biggest startup competition: https://t.co/IISWfdYoO0
"Build and you will be rewarded" is the Ethos as Base.
This proves important to remember when positioning for the chain's network token, looking towards opportunities to create rather than farm for allocation.
Learn which apps could qualify you for a creator distribution👇
~~ Analysis by @wmpeaster ~~
Base has plenty of apps, so it really comes down to your preferences. Do things you enjoy on platforms you like, and anything beyond that will be icing on the cake. But for instance...
You could make NFTs on Base:
➢ @rodeodotclub is a great easy starting point, offering slick Instagram-like UX that turns your posts into digital collectibles.
➢ @titlesxyz is another option. It's an onchain AI remixing app that lets you simply mint outputs from custom-trained, community-sourced AI art models. I have one there you can try.
➢ @manifoldxyz is awesome for DIY NFT drops in general, especially if you want to customize your release styles.
➢ @thirdweb offers pre-built smart contracts, so it's also an option if you want to deploy custom NFT collections.
➢ @vibechain, currently in alpha, is a newer avenue to explore where you can release rippable digital card packs.
You could also make coins on Base:
➢ @clankeronbase is the most popular ERC-20 token launcher on Base, usable via its website or prompt requests on Farcaster. The new V4 offers some nice flexibility.
➢ @flaunchgg is my favorite token launcher platform, also on Base. It offers a cool suite of features, from fixed-price fair launches to revenue sharing with coin holders.
➢ @fx_hash_ pioneered art coins, which are ERC-20s tied to generative art collections that allow minting, rerolling, locking, and evolving underlying outputs. Something to explore for creative coders.
➢ @retakedottv is like an onchain alternative to Twitch, where livestreamers launch personal Streamer Coins and can integrate them into their communities.
➢ @zora is the popular onchain social network, similar to Instagram in general style, that lets you launch a creator coin that you pair against all your tokenized posts.
You could simply post content atop Base, too:
➢ Base App, revamped from Coinbase Wallet, is a Farcaster client with a Zora integration so you can just post here or tokenize your posts as you wish. There's a waitlist for now, but more invites are starting to roll out.
➢ @paragraph_xyz is an onchain publishing platform that's great for longform content. The team recently introduced Coins, allowing writers to tokenize their articles for patronage. And you can now pair your posts with your Zora creator coin, too.
The ideas above aren’t exhaustive of what’s possible on Base today, but they do highlight some straightforward ways to ramp up your activity on the L2. And if $BASE is inevitable, creating here is one of the clearest ways to prepare!