THIS WEEK ON SOLANA:
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- @trepa_io, a prediction market startup and first-place winner in the consumer track at the @solana Breakpoint Hackathon, raised $420K in a pre-seed round led by @colosseum.
- @hylo_so reached $20 million in TVL and began DeFi integration, with hyUSD and sHYUSD now available on @ExponentFinance and @RateX_Dex.
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- @elementaldefi launched Elemental Lend, a boosted yield aggregator that matches the best on-chain lending rates, now live in exclusive closed alpha.
- @RaydiumProtocol surpassed $2 billion in lifetime fees distributed to LPs.
- @Titan_Exchange introduced Titan Prime, a swap optimizer that automatically adjusts settings such as slippage and transaction landing to improve trade execution, with zero swap fees included.
- @byreal_io, the @Bybit_Official-incubated liquidity layer on Solana, surpassed $100 million in total trading volume.
- @bonkfun introduced Dual Creator Rewards, allowing creators including CTO teams to earn up to 0.10% of all swaps, claimable directly through the https://t.co/hTMdXML9DH UI.
- @MonkeDAO extended Barrel Breaking until April 2026, moving beyond the original August 15th deadline after @Truffle_HQ, the infrastructure powering the mechanism, announced its wind-down with an official closing date of August 15th.
- @MetaDAOProject migrated to a new mintable token following the approval of Proposal #31, implementing a 1:1000 redenomination of $META.
- @vaneck_us filed an S-1 for the VanEck JitoSOL ETF, the first-ever ETF fully backed by a liquid staking token, $jitoSOL.
- @Bullish added support for $USDC transfers on Solana.
-@AllDomains_ partnered with @defidevcorp to launch a joint validator operated by the $DFDV team. Both teams will contribute stake, with validator rewards shared between them.
- SOL futures surpassed $12 billion traded on @CMEGroup, one of the world's largest regulated derivatives exchanges.
- @MeteoraAG launched Zap-out, allowing LPs to withdraw in just one token.
- @SolanaFndn launched its first-ever audit competition on @code4rena, a $203.5K prize pool for finding vulnerabilities in the Token-2022 Confidential Transfer Extension.
- @solana hit a new all-time high of 107,664 TPS in a single block.
1/ We've raised $28M in seed round funding led by Bitfinex and Hack VC to launch @Stable — the first dedicated Layer 1 stablechain optimized for USDT payments.