Polygon expands Solana payments with bank ramps, wallets and payouts. The October rollout goes beyond August routing, while access and cash-out terms still vary.
Solana activated Alpenglow on mainnet, replacing TowerBFT. Anza reports 150ms finality, while apps, validators and transaction dashboards face changes.
SkyAI sold its entire SOL treasury and opened a $201.3 million tender at $3 per share. The October 29 deadline leaves a shareholder pricing dispute unresolved.
Firedancer triples Alpenglow bug rewards through November 20, with critical guidelines reaching $300,000. Reports require a nonrefundable 1 SOL burn.
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Solana postponed its Shanghai event after registrations quadrupled past a local cap, Lily Liu said. Hangzhou remains on the schedule for October 18.
Solana schedules Alpenglow for October 21 at epoch 1064. Validators face a 0.8 SOL fee, while the 150ms finality target has limits for apps.
Solana's final 200ms slot change is due at epoch 1053. The rollout halves the old block clock while shortening wallet signing windows and raising validator demands.
Solana unveils atomic DvP settlement with J.P. Morgan input. The audited program exchanges both trade legs together, but bank adoption and release timing remain open.
Solana's Alpenglow is now active on devnet and testnet. Direct checks confirm the switch, but 150ms finality remains a target and mainnet has not activated.
Solana's Alpenglow targets 150ms finality, but Anza still lists testnet activation as pending. September 28 is not a confirmed mainnet launch date.
Charles Schwab plans to add SOL, AVAX and LINK to Schwab Crypto in the coming months, expanding its direct-trading lineup beyond Bitcoin and Ether.
A routing fault at a Frankfurt provider affected several Solana validators on Aug. 12, but the network remained operational because the disrupted stake stayed below the consensus safety threshold.
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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