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This week: a Solana ETP hit the NYSE, a Korean payment network moved 330K+ merchants closer to stablecoin settlement, Solana blocks got 66% bigger, and a 65-million-year-old Triceratops skull is coming onchain. 🦖
Here’s everything that happened:
📰 Headline News
- Morgan Stanley’s Solana Trust ETP ($MSOL) began trading on NYSE Arca
- KSNET signed an MOU with @SolanaFndn to pilot stablecoin settlement across its network of 330K+ South Korean merchants
- BancaStato, a state-owned Swiss bank with $24.2B in total assets, enabled clients to buy, hold and sell SOL through its existing applications
- Solana's RWA ecosystem set a fresh all-time high of $3.72B in total value
- Solana raised its mainnet block compute limit from 60M to 100M compute units, expanding network capacity by 66%
📰 Launches
- @HastraFi brought AUTO live, giving users onchain access to yield backed by U.S. consumer auto loans through @Figure’s infrastructure
- @kamino opened a gold-backed credit market curated by @SteakhouseFi, enabling USDG borrowing against @Paxos's $PAXG
- @SuperstateInc deployed CUSHY on Solana, bringing a $25M onchain share class of @CoinbaseAM’s USD Stablecoin Yield Fund
- @sunrise brought tokenized Strategy ($MSTR) shares to Solana, backed 1:1 by shares held in custody at @Backpack Securities
- @kamino added the oTFY Market curated by @RockawayX, offering USDC liquidity against Obligate's Trade Finance Yield token
- @21shares_us dropped the sponsor fee on its $TSOL ETF to zero through July 2027
- @JupiterExchange shipped Spot V2, combining Swap and Terminal execution with integrated market data
- @moonpay introduced PayBox, a non-custodial payment vault for Claude and ChatGPT AI agents
- @elfa_ai debuted Iris, a real-time intelligence and awareness stack built for AI agents
- @SolanaFndn expanded solana. com/data with unified RPC benchmarking
- @rarible initiated its expansion to Solana
- @readycards added direct PSA Vault transfers for card storage and resale
- @solflare rolled out BRIDGE, offering users a permanent deposit address for cross-chain wallet funding
- @AIWayfinder updated Shell to natively support Solana token swaps and AI agent trading
- @ArcanePrivacy released Arcane Pay for private payments across multiple wallets
- @phygitals shipped its dedicated RWA mobile app
- @Vistadex introduced Indices powered by @adjacent___ for tracking real-world trends
- @trepa_io opened 60-second Bitcoin precision markets
- @PhoenixTrade introduced Phoenix Flight Club, distributing 420K USDC to active traders over 28 days
- @thingsmarket launched Season 1, letting traders compete for 30% of seasonal revenue
- @magicblock debuted an ecosystem map for discovering and connecting with active builders
- @JurassicFi announced the upcoming tokenization of Deaton, a 65-million-year-old Triceratops skull
- @formacity established Forma Campus as a permanent builder location in Bristol, UK
- @NoahAINetwork began accepting applications for its Solana-focused accelerator
- @SuperteamGEO opened applications for Startup Village Kakheti, held in partnership with the Bank of Georgia
- @solana announced the WSOP Solana Showdown for August 4 in Las Vegas
📰 Milestones
- @WalletConnect facilitated ~$4B in volume through Solana during H1 2026
- @crediblefin settled ~$611M on Solana, representing 65.2% of its total payment volume
- Tokenized SpaceX stock ($SPCX) cleared $1B in volume since listing via @sunrise and @Backpack Securities
- @ArcherExchange_ logged over $25M in tokenized stock trading volume within weeks of its first listings
- @onrefinance’s total market size on @ExponentFinance crossed $32M
- @Collector_Crypt saw $36M worth of packs opened over seven days
- @jupiter_trade’s Jupiter Gacha reached $25M in cumulative volume
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.@MetaDAOProject is not just surviving the bear - the Futarchs are THRIVING in the bear!
Just last month, @ordrtrade and @ripcarsio raised successfully together with the biggest raise of the month, @crediblefin!
They keep stacking insane commitments to rounds.
Certainly a W for Solana!
this is how we win #1:
build ecosystems that compound
solana did not become one of the best places in the world to build because one company got everything right.
solana is winning because, over the years, people built institutions that quietly increased the odds of the next founder succeeding:
@MetaDAOProject is the product of years of compounding: time for the ownership thesis to mature, relationships to deepen, and builders, operators and patient capital to gather around a shared conviction. futardio.
the best products rarely win on merit alone.
they win because someone helps the world discover them:
@BagsApp understood this early. through hackathons, builder discord, product discovery and fee-distribution technology, the team has built a strong engine for helping ambitious founders launch, find an audience and grow.
builder-first launchpads like @blankdotbuild and @orynth are extending that model, proving that founder-led distribution can become infrastructure in its own right.
capital formation is evolving too:
@stardotfun is experimenting with live, internet-native fundraising and real-time market feedback. @adamcreates_ has that DAWG in him: relentless about helping early-stage founders find their first believers.
@EasyA_Kickstart is another powerful pipeline, helping builders move from hackathon to company to capital.
@BedrockFndn gives founders more freedom over incorporation, tokenization and future raises.
@icmdotrun helps ambitious teams, often already backed elsewhere, establish themselves on solana and plug into its distribution, liquidity and builder network.
almost every great founder can point to a room, a community or a person who changed the trajectory of their company:
@superteam has built a global talent network spanning more than 24 countries, connecting solana to founders, operators and creatives around the world.
@mtndao has spent five years creating the kind of environment where strangers become co-founders, unfinished ideas become products and products become companies.
@colosseum raises the bar through world-class hackathons, then keeps the fire burning through eternal, because the best builders do not stop building when the competition ends.
great markets need shared standards:
@blockworks’ Token Transparency Framework is helping establish a common language for disclosure and accountability across onchain capital markets.
@fairdotclub and @fairscalexyz are exploring what reputation can become onchain, and how credibility should shape access to capital.
ecosystems also need people who can separate signal from noise:
@mcglive, @ownershipfm, @0x1resolved and @BlockformerLLC & other 🐐, do more than document what is happening. they explain why it matters, surface exceptional builders and create the shared context every healthy ecosystem needs.
around them is an entire network of editors, designers, clippers and creatives preserving the signal, shaping the narrative and making sure important work does not disappear into the feed.
even the best technology goes nowhere without people willing to champion it:
behind the scenes, @MeteoraEco advances credible builders building cool projects on @MeteoraAG & drives wider ecosystem events and engagement.
and underneath all of it, @SolanaFndn continues funding builders, opening doors, forging partnerships and working alongside teams across the ecosystem.
no institution succeeds alone:
each strengthens the ecosystem around it and makes the next breakthrough more likely.
this network of compounding ecosystems is why solana keeps producing exceptional builders.
this is how we win.
Ajeet Bariya, 21, a resident of Mandla, Madhya Pradesh, developed severe breathing difficulties.
His father called the State Govt’s 108 helpline, explained his son's condition, and specifically requested oxygen support. Although the ambulance arrived an hour later, the attendants refused to give oxygen without a doctor’s prescription.
Upon arriving at the nearest govt hospital, the attending doctor reprimanded the ambulance staff for their negligence, ordered them to administer oxygen immediately, and referred Ajeet to the district hospital.
While the staff finally administered oxygen for the transfer, the supply ran out halfway to the hospital, and Ajeet died gasping for breath. Videos of his distraught family weeping at the district hospital have since surfaced online; one of them shows Ajeet struggling for air in the ambulance, though it is too sensitive to share.
Most state-funded ambulance services function like this. They operate as if they are merely transport vehicles rather than the first link in the chain of emergency medical care. Ambulances often arrive late, staff frequently lack emergency medical training, and life-saving equipment is missing, outdated, non-functional, or poorly maintained. There are no clearly enforced SOPs, little accountability, inadequate supervision, and almost no meaningful quality audits.
Kuch bhi… I receive threats too. Almost everyday. Simply because my point of view doesn’t suit a section of people.
Stop celebrating as if democracy has suddenly been restored!
What you really miss is not democracy.. you miss monopoly. You miss ur narratives, your cultural approval.
Escaped the mentioned Hyderabad bombings by 30~40 meters. Once you see bits and pieces of humans all around you, life is never the same.
Gokul chat was on my way home from college. I'd always pop by for a kulfi or a softy. That day it was super crowded and I was getting late so I decided to skip it. In all likelihood saved my life.
This was a gory incident, but nothing changed my view of many things in life like the 26/11 attacks did. Somehow even something personal like the Hyd blasts felt dwarfed by what happened in Mumbai. It's not logical, but perhaps sub consciously it shaped a desire to go live in that city later in life.
To the genuine students who are protesting, I urge you to suspend your protests till peace is re established. Do it every time violence breaks out and your protest is hijacked! There is no limit to how many times you can exercise your constitutional right to protest, so don’t help others burn your own house down in anger! 🙏🏽🤍
On the debate sparked by ‘Satluj’, I see many people here asking “why Hindus have never managed to align themselves politically in Punjab?!”.
As a Punjabi Hindu I feel this is because we have never managed to see Sikhs as separate from us. We have never really understood why we have been targeted and killed by Khalistanis.
Disputes over state boundaries, river water sharing, language…were these kind of petty reasons enough to tear the blood bond that Punjabi Hindus and Sikhs shared for centuries and start a lame separatist movement?! Was it not obvious that the country’s only martial community was being weaponised against itself by vested interests?!
Is it fair to blame all Hindus for the heinous crimes of 1984 for which only one political party was responsible?!
Is it fair to bury the thousands of stories of violence and rape by Khalistanis before 1984?!
To me, the widening rift between Hindus and Sikhs is a source of personal anguish.
A Sikh brother once said to me, “Hindus and Sikhs are like a finger and its nail: They are inseparable.”
Praying that all Punjabis can see past their anger, something which they are prone to, to find love and brotherhood again, which they are known for.
🙏🏽🤍
Dear @chetan_bhagat,
I want to share an experience from my own college days. There was a student who was exceptionally bright in academics. Every time we had a break.. he would pull out one of your novels and start reading. I watched him do this for years. He even completed his master's degree.
But one day.. do you know what happened? He asked me Koi job dekh na bhai mere liye. Today, despite being a much better student than I ever was... he is working in an average job. That's the contribution your fictional novels made to his priorities.
That memory came back to me while reading your article.. not because fiction is harmful, but because I felt you once again shifted attention away from the central issue.
Now.. in this criminal case.. instead of focusing on the gravity of a 20-years-old woman's alleged crime.. you hve shifted the discussion toward 'India's parenting system' and the way business-class families run their businesses & control their children. Like SERIOUSLY? You should be ashamed of doing that.
People say that when society asks the right questions and introspects honestly, society improves. But the questions you hve raised in this article are detached from the actual context. If society starts introspecting based on the questions you have framed.. it will only be MISLED.
The title of your article, "Why Siya Could Not Say No to Marriage," is.. in my opinion.. the wrong question.
The more appropriate questions would have been:
"Why did Siya DARE to take someone's life?"
or
"What mindset leads Siya to believe she can take her fiance's life?"
If you had started with those questions.. you might have explored the deeper psychology, the mindset behind such an act, the role of the legal system in India and possible institutional biases. That could have offered society meaningful insight.
Instead.. just as your fictional novels often divert readers into imagined worlds.. I believe you have diverted attention from the core issue in this article as well.
My disagreement is not with questioning society. My point is that such questions should address the central issue. Only then can the conversation lead to meaningful introspection and constructive conclusions.
You question India's parenting system. Let me remind you that it is this very system that has preserved our culture, values and family traditions for generations. It is where respect, responsibility and the importance of relationships are first taught. Yes, it has some flaws, and they deserve discussion.. but in the right context.
As for business culture... if you have personal criticisms.. raise them elsewhere. Don't use this criminal case to push an unrelated narrative. I do believe your introspection on this issue has been fundamentally misplaced.
Please don't lose sight of the real issue.. and don't encourage others to lose sight of it either. Period
Atul Subhash is dead.
His estranged wife, Nikita Singhania, and her family were arrested, later granted bail, and the criminal case is still pending.
Sarvjeet Singh spent years being called a molester before a court acquitted him. Jasleen Kaur later moved to Canada, according to multiple public reports.
Kamaraj, the Zomato delivery partner, became a national villain overnight. His version was heard only after the damage to his reputation was done.
Manav Singh is gone.
Raja Raghuvanshi is gone.
Some men lose years.
Some lose their reputation.
Some lose their families.
Some lose their lives.
Justice should protect every genuine victim-but it must also protect innocent men. Equality cannot mean empathy for only one gender.