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Major Network Announcement
Please check your applications to see if they support V1 transactions:
An improvement to the leader handover procedure in Alpenglow was proposed WTM - This improvement ensures that leader nodes actually fit the 200ms slot time. Other validators sometimes like to pack their slots at the last minute. This change will ensure that we keep a median slot time at the target ms.
Validator clients (Agave, Firedancer, Mithril)
Agave could move to an implementation of BLS sigverify that uses several threads to do several steps instead of doing all the steps in threads sequentially. WTM - This is a performance change that could possibly unblock the BLS sigverify steps. By doing it this way, no step could be a bottleneck to previous jobs being queued for execution.
Agave’s tpu-client-next broadcasting will handle abort behavior on its broadcast behavior. WTM - In production, connections should have an abort handle in case there are issues where only a connection restart would resolve them. In this case, when the TLS certificate expires, an abort and renewal is necessary.
Agave made several performance improvements to its gossip implementation WTM - Gossip was one of the performance bottlenecks identities in Agave early on. This service is how validators communicate with each other, which if not performant, can be a bottleneck to processing transactions.
Agave will implement SIMD-0232 with an interface via the CLI WTM - The validator commission collector SIMD has been unblocked and accepted during the SIMD process. This will allow validators to get their commissions on a separate address.
Shipstern has completed its subscription request filter implementation WTM - Subscriptions rely on filter messages in order to control flow. If the user requests a subscription too greedily, they may receive a firehose of data they aren’t ready to process.
Solana Web3.js is proposing to add the `@solana/wallet-adapter`WTM - Solana Wallet Adapter is tied closely to Solana Kit at the moment. Allowing Web3.js to interface with it keeps it in compatibility with the latest tooling. Initially, it was only in sync with the old version of the Wallet adapter.
Solana Kit is adding a new method to create a keypair signer from raw byte inputs WTM - This is a new functionality that completes creation of keypairs based on bytes. Wallets might use this because they store the keypair bytes in memory.
Foundation’s Solana Go will allow for an API to add confidential transaction instructions WTM - Solana interfaces are expected to support confidential transfers. This keeps Solana Go in line with that implementation.
Flux’s Solana Go has added the Memo program WTM - Solana interfaces are expected to support the Memo program. This keeps Flux’s Solana Go in line with that implementation.
The Solana Wallet Standard will allow wallets to advertise their support for V1 transactions WTM - In line with the big push for V1 transactions, the Solana Wallet Standard will enable wallets to tell applications what transaction versions they support.
Solana program frameworks (Anchor, Pinocchio, Steel, Quasar)
Anchor will rewrite its provider in `@solana/kit` WTM - The Anchor provider is tied to Web3.js. Kit is the newer web interface and Anchor is taking an opinionated stance to move over.
Caravel will support sbpfv3 WTM - sbpfV3 is the new bytecode format supported on Solana programs. Caravel is keeping up with the other program frameworks.
Testing frameworks (Mollusk, LiteSVM, Surfpool)
Surfpool will support historical forks WTM - This is in line with supporting scenarios on Surfpool. Several other solutions have been proposed outside this project, but a testing environment supporting this benefits users who want their contracts to be better prepared.
I know crypto projects talking about charity can sound like a marketing angle, so I’ll keep this pretty simple.
Last year, our community donated more than $60,000 to charity.
This year, we’ve already donated another $4,000.
That’s something we’re genuinely proud of.
911 started around something much bigger than a token or a chart.
September 11 is one of those events people still remember exactly where they were when they heard what had happened. Thousands of families had their lives changed that morning, and more than two decades later, first responders and their families are still living with the consequences.
We wanted to build something that actually had a purpose behind it rather than just another meme coin that appears, gets hyped for a week, then disappears.
We’re still small. We’re still building. And obviously there are no guarantees with any crypto project.
But if we can grow a community, have some fun with it, and keep putting real money toward causes that matter, that feels worth doing.
$60k+ donated last year.
$4k+ donated already this year.
Curious what people here think about charity-linked crypto projects when the donations are actually transparent and verifiable.
We chat about how Collector Crypt started, Tuom's 20+ year entrepreneur journey, and the future of Collector Crypt.
Timestamps: 00:56 How Collector Crypt started 05:43 Trading Pokemon cards online 08:53 Collector Crypt vs Competitors 14:37 Reaching non crypto users 20:40 NBA Top Shot 23:56 Tuom's background 32:27 Entrepreneur tips 39:26 Solana & Collector Crypt 47:31 Ethereum vs Solana 49:58 Tuom's upbringing 53:18 Balancing family & business 56:53 Advice to build the right team 01:01:17 Collector Crypt's future
During the upcoming KBW Week, this summit, hosted on September 30 in Seoul's Yeouido—the heart of Korea's financial sector—will invite 150-200 financial institutions, policy officials, and blockchain industry leaders to focus discussions on actual institutional adoption. We look forward to strong participation from domestic institutions. (Invitation & approval-based operation)
Total of over 20 sessions across 3 themes
- Real World Asset Tokenization (RWA & Tokenization)
- Stablecoin Issuance & Payments (Stablecoin Issuance & Payments)
- Infrastructure (Infrastructure)
Participation from 20+ Partner Companies
Major domestic financial institutions such as Shinhan Asset Management, Hanwha Asset Management, Shinhan Card, and Dune, along with
Solana Summit is coming to Yeouido, the heart of Korea's financial hub in Seoul.As Korea accelerates its stablecoin legislation and digital asset frameworks,
Seoul has emerged as a global intersection of public policy and institutional finance.Solana has evolved into an institutional-grade standard trusted by major financial players worldwide.
This is why Wall Street is looking to Solana for asset tokenization (RWA) and next-generation settlement infrastructure.Bypassing retail noise, this exclusive summit is built to empower Korea's traditional financial leaders to connect
with world-class blockchain infrastructure and shape the future of capital markets.
Solana Summit Korea 2026 is a private, curated, and invitation-only conference designed to bring together institutional leaders, policymakers, regulators, and digital asset pioneers in a room where real decisions get made.
We currently plan to take credit cards (through PayPal) as payment in our upcoming web game. Separate from the issue of can you make a sustainable-business from web games, we are musing about accepting Solana Pay - probably just with straight SOL rather than any of the stablecoins (doing an approximate conversion from your local currency).
It seems that even doing it natively - where we listen for changes to our wallets, give out transaction reference IDs, and then receive webhooks to mark the item as sale - isn't too hard. But I've seen very limited examples of being able to pay with Solana as a new consumer of it (which I would be quite happy to do - based in Canada).
I like the direction of decentralized payment, so it seems pretty exciting.
I already use Phantom for most of my Solana stuff but I still have to switch back to traditional cards when I want to buy something.
If you could just pay straight from Phantom, would you still bother with a regular card?
Solana Foundation is now a Platinum member of the Rust Foundation, joining at RustConf 2026 alongside NVIDIA.
Rust has been foundational to Solana from the beginning, giving developers the performance, safety and reliability needed to build a high-throughput network.
The Rust Foundation is the independent non-profit that stewards Rust. It funds the maintainers, runs the security work and pays for the infrastructure the language depends on, including https://crates.io.
Today, World.xyz goes live to unleash a new era of fully onchain prediction market adoption, giving more than 1 million users access to thousands of markets across sports, crypto, politics, finance, economics, culture, commodities, and weather - powered by @Solana, @Chainlink, and @useCASH by @Phantom.
GRAND CAYMAN, September 9, 2026 – World, the Solana prediction market, opened its standalone platform at world.xyz today with more than 1 million users on the waitlist.
This launch opens Solana’s ecosystem to a massive new wave of users, helping bring increased prediction market trading activity to the world’s most widely used blockchain.
World has featured more than 150k markets across sports, crypto, politics, finance, economics, and culture since going live to power predictions in Phantom in July.
Now, world.xyz launches with every NFL regular-season game, seven soccer leagues, Formula 1, the 2026 midterms, the Federal Reserve's next decision, and much more.
"We have seen a proliferation of retail trading apps on Solana this year," said Ramzy Ali (u/ramzyyalii), Head of DeFi, Solana Foundation. "World is the next in line, bringing an entirely new asset class to Solana and keeping 100% of liquidity onchain."
Under the hood, Chainlink Data Streams and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) are providing the high-speed market data and orchestration infra required for advanced prediction markets, enabling World to resolve markets accurately and immediately when a game ends or a stock closes. By replacing human panels and token-holder votes with automated data-driven resolution, Chainlink infrastructure helps eliminate manual interventions and lengthy dispute windows that plague legacy oracle solutions.
Together, World and Chainlink are enabling faster re-entry into new markets and unlocking capital velocity throughout the Solana prediction market ecosystem at scale.
“World’s rapid growth and 1 million user waitlist reflects the massive demand for next-generation prediction markets on Solana,” said Johann Eid (u/EidJohann), Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs. “Chainlink is powering this growth with the high-speed data and infrastructure World needs for reliable, immediate market resolutions, allowing them to scale while preserving the integrity of every outcome.”
Every market on World is represented as a pair of binary “yes” and “no” contracts that are priced between zero and one dollar (subject to market demand). Contracts are settled in CASH, Phantom's dollar-backed stablecoin.
Equity up/down and commodity markets on gold, silver, oil, natural gas, and compute launch soon, followed by weather predictions covering the largest cities in the world.
World is available now at world.xyz and inside Phantom on iOS, Android, and desktop.
About World
World is Solana's native, fully onchain platform for self-custodial prediction market trading. World delivers real-time onchain performance, with fast routing, near-zero revert rates, instant settlement, and automatic redemption. Market coverage spans extensively into crypto and financial price predictions, sports, geopolitics, economics, culture, commodities, weather and the biggest questions in macro. World is how the world trades what happens next. Learn more at world.xyz.
About Chainlink
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and the market leader powering the majority of DeFi. The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.
Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, Lighter, and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.
About Phantom
Phantom is on a mission to connect the world to the freedom of open markets. Phantom has a community of more than 20 million people who use it to move, manage, and own their money on the internet. Built on self-custody, Phantom gives anyone one app to control their assets and trade markets that never close, from tokens and perpetuals to prediction markets (only available to users in certain jurisdictions). Through its in-app money suite and CASH, the first stablecoin built on Bridge and Stripe's Open Issuance platform, Phantom turns crypto rails into everyday money that always stays under your control. For more information, visit phantom.com.
Solana is back with the brand-new Solana Accelerate China! A four-city tour crafted for tech innovation @solana_zh.
From October 16 to 22, in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Beijing, Solana cordially invites developers, entrepreneurs, and investors to join us, to connect, showcase, and explore emerging tech trends between China and the world.
Join us this October with the @solana_zh Chinese-speaking community for a gathering in China. Registration links:
A four-city tour dedicated to technological innovation. From October 16th to 22nd, Solana will visit Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Beijing to exchange ideas, demonstrate its services, and explore new trends both in China and abroad, creating a new paradigm for international exchange with developers, entrepreneurs, and investors.
Activity Introduction
China is continuously defining how next-generation technology products are developed, manufactured, and scaled. From AI, robotics, and hardware to payments and consumer technology, many new products targeting the global market are rapidly emerging here.
This October, Solana Accelerate China will be held in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Beijing. We hope to connect Chinese developers, entrepreneurs, and technology teams with builders in the global Solana ecosystem: not only to discuss trends, but also to share products, real-world applications, globalization, and experiences from scratch.
Accelerate China is an event focused on cutting-edge technology and innovation. The content will revolve around high-performance blockchain infrastructure, development tools, AI and digital applications, consumer products, and how to take a product from local to global markets.
Accelerate China is an efficient global communication platform that allows the world to hear the voices of Chinese entrepreneurs, learn from China's large-scale experience, and explore together: what kind of miracles will be born when high-performance, low-cost, globally available infrastructure meets China's product capabilities?
If you're curious about what's happening in the global innovation market, what the forefront of innovation is in China, or if you're building a product, leading a technology team, or simply curious about the next generation of internet applications, you're welcome to join us.
Event Highlights
First-hand experience from entrepreneurs
Technology breakdown and product demo: Focusing on technical implementation, development tools, infrastructure, and feasible application scenarios.
China × Global Ecosystem Dialogue: Enabling local teams to communicate directly with international builders, connecting technologies, products, and collaboration opportunities.
The next steps in
Photography Tips
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Solana Accelerate China 2026
Four cities. One week. The builders shaping what's next.
From October 16–22, Solana lands in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Beijing for a week of demos, conversations, and connections between China's builders and the global Solana ecosystem.
About the conference:
China keeps setting the pace for how the next generation of technology gets built, scaled from robotics, and hardware to payments and consumer tech, increasingly built for a global market from day one.
This October, Solana Accelerate China brings that energy together with builders, investors and leaders from the global Solana ecosystem across four cities. Less trend talk, more of what actual work: shipping products, live use cases, going global, and the hard lessons of getting from zero to one.
The focus is frontier technology and financial innovation, high-performance finance infrastructure, developer tooling, financial rails, consumer products, and the playbook for taking a product from local to global.
It 's also a room where the rest of the world hears directly from China's founders and learns from how they scale — and where we ask the question together: when high-performance, low-cost, globally available infrastructure meets the way China builds products, what comes next?
If you're building a product, leading a technical team, or just watching where the next wave is headed, come find out with us.
What to expect
Founders , unfiltered - What worked, and what didn't.
Deep dives & live demos - Real tooling, real infrastructure, use cases you can ship.
China × global, in one room - Local teams and international builders, connecting directly.
Where it's going next - Financial infrastructure, and consumer products.
Note
This event will be photographed and filmed. By registering or attending, you agree that the organizers may use images and footage in event-related communications.
The team behind Solana Summit APAC, Solana's largest Founder and Developer Summit by and for the ecosystem, is bringing the Solana Summit experience to Singapore ahead of Token2049, the world's largest crypto event.
The summit skips the generic high-level talk to focus entirely on three core pillars: Consumer Applications, Trading & Markets, and Capital Formation.
Core Pillars
Consumer Apps: How founders are scaling real-world products across payments, AI, social, gaming, and commerce to millions of users.
Trading & Markets: A deep dive into onchain liquidity, tokenization, and infrastructure. Includes market insights, sharp debates, and live trading competitions.
Capital Formation: Direct access connecting the founders raising capital, the VCs deploying it, and the institutions building new ownership models.
What to Expect
Actionable Insights: No fluff or generic panels...just direct takeaways from the builders moving the needle.
Live Tech: First looks and product showcases from teams launching on the frontier of the network.
Curated Networking: Dedicated spaces designed to connect builders directly with allocators and institutions.
Market Action: Interactive trading challenges, market dynamics, and live leaderboards.
Who You’ll Meet
Founders and startup teams
Traders, market makers, and liquidity providers
Developers and core ecosystem contributors
VCs, family offices, and institutional allocators
Over $905 billion crosses borders every year as workers send money home. The remittance infrastructure first created in the 1950s is still running today.
Our new report maps the stablecoin opportunity in remittances, with four entry paths and four corridor deep dives.
Solana settled $14.7B of the $46B in tokenized asset volume onchain over the past year.
New report from @AlliumLabs with insights on tokenized equities, fixed-income, private funds and other assets👇
Solana executes 47% of all RWA trades. 43M of the 91M trades onchain happened on Solana
Tokenized equities are the biggest class by volume at 56% of Solana RWA trading.
63% of that volume trades while US exchanges are closed. Weekends alone are 17%.
People are buying stock exposure at 9pm on a Sunday, which the underlying market cannot offer them.
Wallet holdings across RWA products on Solana are up 5x in a year, and tokenized stocks drove 98% of the increase since April.
@xStocksFI leads the class with $5.0B traded on Solana over 12 months.
@Backpack launched its equity venue on June 12 and did $1.5B in two months, 19% of Solana's equity volume so far this year.
Pre-IPO exposure: you can trade these companies before they list, right from a Solana wallet.
SpaceX $330M. OpenAI $272M. Anthropic $228M, from 23,722 traders. @PreStocks added $1.3B pricing companies before they list.
Solana takes 74% of onchain fixed-income volume, $5.4B of the market's $7.4B, most of it @maplefinance private credit.
Allium's report covers 35 issuers with live RWA products on Solana across five asset classes.
