Solana is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain built to support decentralized applications at scale. Rather than relying on sharding or layered architectures, it maintains a single unified ledger, an approach intended to avoid liquidity fragmentation while still processing thousands of transactions per second with sub-second finality and minimal fees. The network combines Proof of Stake with a mechanism called Proof of History, which provides a cryptographic clock for timestamping transactions and reduces the coordination overhead between validators. This design enables parallel execution of smart contracts across multiple CPU cores, along with protocols such as Gulf Stream that forward transactions ahead of block finalization to shorten confirmation times. Founded in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko, the project is supported by the Switzerland-based Solana Foundation and has drawn backing from major venture firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, Multicoin Capital, and Alameda Research. The native token, SOL, is used to pay transaction fees, participate in on-chain governance, and secure the network through staking. Beyond its core infrastructure role, SOL sits within a broader ecosystem of decentralized finance, consumer applications, and institutional integrations spanning payments and tokenized assets.
The launch extends Jito's MEV infrastructure into a full self-custodial venue, folding tokenized real-world assets into the same surface as spot Solana tokens.
Reports that Trump signed off on a long-running ethics hurdle cleared the Senate path for the crypto market structure bill.
A five-day ETF inflow streak past $600M and an Asian semis rebound are doing the lifting, but the Fed's July 29 meeting sets the ceiling on conviction.
Five mid-cap Solana names outran a quieter broader market, with MetaDAO up 51% and Pyth posting a 33% gain that suggests rotation into oracle and launchpad exposure.
The crypto–equity divergence that has defined 2026 widened again: BTC down 1% while Nasdaq 100 futures gained, with futures volume spiking 81% but open interest flat, a churn-not-conviction signature.
The attacker used a $1.12M flash loan from Kamino to skew USDC/USDT pool ratios, withdrew at favorable rates, and bridged proceeds to Ethereum.
ETH funds nearly matched the Bitcoin bid on a weekly basis, a rotation that points to capital spreading beyond the BTC trade as institutional appetite broadens across major assets.
The two forces roughly cancel for crypto: war-driven Brent is inflationary, while Moonshot's Kimi K3 puts fresh pressure on the chip names Bitcoin has tracked all month.
The position creates $1.53M in leveraged PUMP exposure, with liquidation set at $0.0016194 and risk concentrated in a single trade.
The attacker rapidly shifted the stolen value from Solana to Ethereum and converted it into ETH, extending the incident across two major ecosystems.
Liquidity providers in affected pools were urged to withdraw funds after the attacker moved the stolen assets from Solana to Ethereum.
The attacker bridged stolen funds from Solana to Ethereum, and the protocol's pause is the kind of containment move that signals a live, in-flight incident rather than a post-mortem.
The video is opinion, not news, and the names are mostly the standard institutional RWA shortlist: AVAX, BNB, SOL, ETH, LINK, plus Canton, XRP and Zcash for the directional calls.
The fee lands below every existing US spot ETH product and would undercut Grayscale, setting up a staking-driven cost battle for advisor wallet share.
Teng still expects adoption to accelerate as stablecoins, tokenized assets and institutional demand pull blockchain deeper into global finance.
RWA user counts at this scale are unrivalled across L1s, but the Circle liquidity is the real catalyst: it deepens SOL's stablecoin rails and tightens spreads for every tokenization venue built on…
Cumulative treasury sales now top 4.7M SOL at a $169 average, a steady, large-scale distribution pattern that keeps pressure on the SOL bid every time markets soften.
The bullish case rests on Solana’s on-chain equity share, a $500M USDC addition and Alpenglow, while macro risk appetite remains the key condition.
The fund will test whether active management and adviser distribution can reverse investors’ strong preference for single-asset crypto exposure.
The pullback isn't crypto-native. AI-sector fatigue, a 4% Nikkei drop, and a bid for gold and the dollar show the move is macro-led, with derivatives signaling an orderly unwind rather than forced…
Where Zipp's editorial desk has weighed in on this token.
Bitcoin reclaimed $64K on $170M of ETF demand while Coldcard wallets bled up to $130M. The flow picture is bullish; the price has not yet been tested.
BlackRock tokenized $311 billion on Ethereum. Bitcoin stalled below $65K as jobs data looms. The market looked past everything, and the mood is the story.
On a day with only two headlines, the message was structural. Markets shrugged at a custody scare while Washington stalled on the bill that defines US digital asset market structure.
A $70M-plus wallet drain, ETF outflows, and a Coinbase treasury race all point to the same uncomfortable read on institutional rails.
A wallet-firmware exploit and a $1.17B put overhang weigh on BTC as Coinbase reports non-BTC revenue hit 88% of the mix.
A $70M+ wallet exploit met a market already leaning the wrong way. The real story today is the erosion underneath the price action.
Solana is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain designed for mass adoption by providing a fast, secure, and low-cost environment for decentralized applications.
Solana (SOL) is categorised as: Smart Contract Platform, Solana Ecosystem, Layer 1 (L1).
The official Solana site is https://solana.com/.
Most recent Solana coverage: "Jito Labs Launches JTX: Self-Custodial Solana Trading Platform" — read at /en-US/a/jito-labs-launches-jtx-self-custodial-solana-trading.
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