Solana's tentative Agave 4.2 rollout calls for mainnet feature activations to begin Aug. 17, including a 90% cut to refundable storage deposits, 4,096-byte transactions and 200-millisecond slots.
Exchange Art has shut down its Solana NFT marketplace after saying it could not find a viable financial path, while its closure notice says artworks remain onchain.
Grayscale's GSOL plans to begin quarterly cash distributions of net Solana staking rewards on or around Aug. 7, shifting how shareholders receive the fund's staking income.
KSNET and Solana Foundation signed an MOU to test Solana Pay and x402 AI payments across a Korean network that Solana says serves more than 330,000 merchants.
Solana is scheduled to lift its maximum block compute limit from 60 million to 100 million units on July 29, a 66% capacity increase intended to add headroom during busy trading and payments periods.
SBI Holdings and the Solana Foundation will turn SBI R3 Japan into SBI Solana Global to support JPYSC, tokenized assets and cross-border settlement on Solana.
Moody's credit ratings are now machine-readable on Solana through Alphaledger, bringing institutional bond-risk data directly into tokenized assets.
Kraken added self-custodial Solana DEX trading to its main app, giving eligible users access to more than 2,500 tokens through embedded wallets.
WSOP and Solana launched crypto tournament ticket purchases in Las Vegas, with stablecoin payouts planned for WSOP Paradise in December.
Solana's May report showed 97% tokenized-equities trading share, 2.8B-plus in RWAs, 16.4B in stablecoins and record SOL ETF inflows.
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