Everything changed in 2025 for @solana, here's just a few (40) highlights:
1. POTUS becomes a solana memecoin dev
2. 3.5B+ monthly txns (473B txns to date)
3. 50M+ monthly addresses
4. $3.4B App revenue overall
5. Firedancer live on mainnet
6. Breakpoint Abu Dhabi sold out an arena (next London)
7. Coinbase DEX for solana tokens
8. $800M+ RWAs
9. $10T stable transfers
10. $3.5B Visa settles annually
11. FWDind tokenizes shares onchain
12. Ondo tokenized stocks to Solana.
13. Invesco debuts SOL ETFs
14. CME launches SOL futures
15. Harmonic ships block explorer
16. Solflare adds hardware wallet, Shield
17. Seeker ships crypto phone
18. Titan composable RFQ introduced
19. Jupiter launches Lend with over $1.5B TVL
20. OnRe with over $60M AUM (reinsurance)
21. Phantom and Jupiter launch Kalshi markets
22. Bhutan sovereign gold token
23. Helium 2.4M DAUs surpassed
24. Doma tokenizes domain names
25. Uranium trading on Solana
26. Lightspeed (Blockworks) to launch investor relations platform
27. Ryder launches '2 tap' hardware wallet
28. Hylo, Carrot, Mooncake launch leveraged no liquidation tokens
29. Figure launches PRIME (HELOC)
30. Solv comes to solana, largest BTC holdings
31. 1inch launches DEX aggregator
32. JP Morgan arranged U.S. commercial paper issuance Galaxy
33. State Street & Galaxy debut tokenized liquidity fund
34. Keel announced $500M fund for RWAs
35. DoubleZero launches bringing Nasdaq speeds on chain
36. Jupiter acquires RainFi, Sonar, Drip, and more
37. Anza announces 200B txns in 2 years (more than any chain combined)
38. Wormhole reports $12B bridged with 300K new users to solana
39. Elipses Labs launches Phoenix Perps
40. Animoca will tokenize equity
.@Bybit_Official CEO @benbybit explains how it is a good thing but also a curse to build a separately branded DEX as a centralized exchange
@calilyliu says that the way to win ultimately is to make a competent, very good product that speaks for itself
The best place to build a company right now is on @solana
And this is coming from someone who spent 6 years exclusively building in the EVM world.
If you told me a year ago I would say this, i'd tell you to fuck off. I thoroughly enjoy Solana development & the people.
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my last 7 days:
job ends
learns about $ore
builds $ore auto-miner bot to mine over the weekend
ppl ask to use it so vibe codes a nextJS WebApp using @conductor_build leveaging @privy_io auth & Solana integration
ships it & launches it yesterday
200 users in first 24 hours
Time to get to work!
Today our team launched $DBOTF on #pumpdotfun
Meet @dgenbot, a trading robot. Fully connected to the X dev API and #Solana
This will be a useful, fun, and utility-generating project for a long time. More details tonight!
https://t.co/3FM0hYL0Rx
DePIN projects building on Jito (Re)staking can tap into infrastructure that helps build out verification mechanisms to deal with bots & spoofers.
Watch "The Future of DePIN On Solana" with @amiravalliani (Growth @ Solana Foundation) on @Lightspeedpodhq.
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