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Workfolio brings human workers and AI agents into the same onchain marketplace: bounties, milestones, contracts, token payments, and portable reputation. If assets, payments, and checkout are moving to Solana, the workforce layer should move there too. https://t.co/AzqS7XG8Fg
A bank your parents have heard of. A payments app your roommate uses. A checkout that takes stablecoins. All shipped on Solana this week.
Here's everything that happened:
📰 Headline News
- Solana captured 97% of cumulative tokenized equities spot trading volume
- @AnodosFinance announced its expansion to Solana to launch its flagship superapp
- @CashApp rolled out stablecoin support, including USDC on Solana
📰 Launches
- @SoFi launched SoFiUSD (SoFiD) on Solana, the first stablecoin from a U.S. nationally chartered bank
- @tokens opened public access to the Assets API
- @streamex and @orca_so launched 24/7 onchain secondary liquidity for regulated tokenized securities
- @WalletConnect added Solana compatibility to WalletConnect Pay for merchant stablecoin and token spending
- @shefiorg partnered with Solana to launch its largest educational cohort to date
- @ExponentFinance activated Exponent v2, introducing strategy vaults and risk-tranching swaps
- @refihub scheduled ReFi Hub’s launch on Crafts to establish global energy infrastructure as tokenized Solana RWA
- @onrefinance expanded ONyc liquidity and fixed-rate infrastructure via integrations with @ExponentFinance and @Loopscale
- @JupiterExchange initiated the Public Beta of its Offerbook, a fixed-rate credit platform enabling borrowing against any token, NFT, or trading card
- @OREsupply advanced its progressive freeze strategy
- @Dominion_Market launched 1:1 asset-backed physical silver tokenization natively on Solana
- @totalistrading activated cross-market parlays on Solana, allowing unified trades across macroeconomics, sports, and politics
- @tradeonhunch released an advanced trading terminal and prediction market aggregator
- @UmbraPrivacy teamed with @streamflow_fi to implement private token vesting infrastructure
- @zinc_cash shipped a private proof-of-work mining protocol on Solana powered by @Arcium
- Solana launched its official TikTok account
- @bonk_inu opened waitlist access to BONKUJI, its dedicated trading cards platform
- @Beezie brought its collectibles platform and the Claw IRL to collectors at its Card Show in Seoul
- @heydotlol rolled out Communities v2, delivering upgraded token-gating and anti-spam verification tools for ecosystem projects
- @termina_tech introduced a historical mainnet simulation environment for developers to backtest DeFi logic
- @blueshift released Web3.js 3.0, rebuilding solana/web3.js on Kit
- @sunrisedefi brought DEUS from @xmaquina natively to Solana
- @packetchat deployed Packet MCP to equip autonomous AI agents with wallet-native inboxes and sovereign payment rails
- @codecopenflow launched SimArena, a browser-based robotics simulator that generates training data directly from URL
- @wingbits introduced an AI platform enabling natural language tracking and autonomous agent alerts for real-time aviation data
- @SolanaInstitute announced the Solana Summit: Washington x Wall Street event in Chicago for June 16
- @SolanaFndn joined the Open Transaction Layer as a founding partner to develop cross-chain standards
- @UmbraPrivacy wallet app launched on the iOS app store
- AlmaU signed an MOU to integrate Solana blockchain development into its academic curriculum
📰 Milestones
- @solsticefi surpassed $500M in TVL
- @mayan crossed 1M external wallets bridged to Solana, with $2.5B+ in stablecoins moved across 600K+ transactions
- Solana hit a new record high of over 200K onchain tokenized stock holders
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Peter Thiel on the question he asks every startup founder he invests in
“Why will the 20th talented person join your company when they can get paid way more at Google, they will have to work way less hard at Google, and it will look better on their resume to go to Google?”
The 20th employee won’t get the equity or prestige that someone on the founding team will get, so there needs to be another incentive if you’re going to build a truly great company and attract the best people in the world.
Thiel believes the best answer is something along the lines of:
“This is the only place in the world where you can work on this incredibly important problem.”
He continues:
“It has to—on some dimension—be a really important problem that at least some people think is the most important problem in the world. Those are the kind of businesses that are unique, and when they work, they end up being leaders in their respective markets.”
If it’s a problem that a bunch of other team are working on, it will be hard to attract a truly world-class employee #20.
.@itseasyco has been heads down since Cohort 2 disrupting how businesses handle payments.
Proud to see it paying off with lower fees for merchants and real world adoption of Solana.
SoftBank is promising to spend at least $52 billion on building a network of massive data centers in France, helping advance Europe’s goal of tech independence with what would be the continent’s largest AI infrastructure project. https://t.co/zqQO4ePyDF
The future of hiring isn’t replacing humans. It’s removing friction.
If candidates are 12% more likely to receive an offer after interviewing with AI agents, maybe the advantage isn’t AI making better decisions it’s AI creating a better experience.
At Workfolio, we believe talent should be evaluated by skills, proof of work, and real contributions. AI can help scale discovery, but great people will always be at the center of great teams.
AI handles the process. Humans build the future.
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💻 Freelance work needs better infrastructure.
Workfolio is building an on demand service marketplace where skills, projects, and clients connect faster.
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A few years ago, freelancing meant sending resumes into the void.
Today, talent is global, opportunities are onchain, and work moves faster than borders.
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WORKFOLIO exists to make that map easier to read.
The next generation of careers won’t be defined by where you live.
They’ll be defined by what you can build.
Workfolio is helping people navigate that future. 🗺️💼
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💻 Freelance work needs better infrastructure.
Workfolio is building an on demand service marketplace where skills, projects, and clients connect faster.
Explore: https://t.co/6WT4JnZWii