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Introducing Archer, The Global Trading Engine For Every Asset, Fully Onchain On Solana
Source: https://x.com/ArcherExchange_/status/2056748491943358845
Introducing Archer
The global trading engine for every asset, fully onchain on @solana.
Live now.
EasyA Kickstart Is Offering ~1% Of All Trading Volume Goes To Founders Building On Solana, Some Of The Highest In The World
Source: https://x.com/EasyA_Kickstart/status/2056389825020731860
Creator fees are now live on Kickstart! 💸
~1% of all trading volume now goes to founders, making creator fees on Kickstart some of the highest in the world.
Another major step towards building the future of capital formation on @solana 💪
https://reddit.com/link/1thglfp/video/4zo3r0w8122h1/player
Launch, trade and back the next big idea on Kickstart 👇
BirdEye - New ATH For Tokenized Stocks On Solana, Daily Trading Volume On XStocksFi Hit $39.96M On May 11
Source:
New ATH for tokenized stocks on @solana 🚀
Daily trading volume on @xStocksFi hit $39.96M on May 11, driven largely by a record-breaking $28.8M day from $CRCLx. This followed @circle’s Q1 earnings report, which showed 20% YoY growth in revenue and reserve income.
The surge pushed total tokenized stock trading volume on @solana to a new peak of $54.43M — up 6.68% from the previous high on April 15.
Agave 4.0 Is Now Recommended For Mainnet Validators
Source: https://x.com/anza_xyz/status/2056363219757801867
1/ Agave 4.0 is now recommended for mainnet validators. XDP for Turbine, QUIC-only TPU ingestion, faster replay stage, and a long list of feature-gated SIMDs activating during the cycle. Here's what's changing 🧵
2/ XDP is ready for wider validator adoption. Production results on large mainnet validators show Turbine retransmit dropping from 600ms to ~0.8ms. Critical headroom as Solana pushes toward 100M CU blocks.
3/ Replay stage is faster. PoH entry verification and Ed25519 signature verification have been moved off the critical path and dispatched asynchronously, with checks joined before the block is accepted.
4/ UDP transaction ingestion is gone. QUIC is now the only way to submit transactions. TPU address flags and RPC methods refer to QUIC ports, and all UDP related CLI flags have been removed
5/ Simple vote transactions no longer use statically defined CU costs. They're now accounted for using the same cost model as normal transactions, freeing up block capacity that was previously reserved for votes.
6/ Several feature-gated SIMDs activate during the 4.0 cycle, including p-token (drop-in SPL Token replacement, ~13% block capacity freed), Stake Program v5 (1 lamport → 1 SOL minimum delegation), SBPFv3 program support, prefunded account creation, and BLS12-381 syscalls.
7/ Check out the full changelog here:
Solana's RWA Ecosystem Just Hit A New ATH: $2.8B+ In Total Value
Weekly Discussion Thread, Chats & Trading Talks | May 17 To May 24, 2026
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Solana Payments Roundup: May 1-15
Source: https://x.com/solanapayments/status/2056032008422216096
Accelerate Miami put the Solana payments stack on the main stage on May 5: Tether USA CEO Bo Hines, Lead Bank's Jackie Reses, Privy's Henri Stern, and Majority's Magnus Larsson, alongside other prominent speakers placed Solana at the centre of American innovation.
The headlines matched the lineup: Western Union's USDPT went live on Solana, SoFi announced SoFiUSD, Anchorage launched cashless reserves with J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and Pay.sh debuted in collaboration with Google Cloud for agentic API payments.
https://x.com/solana/status/2051263551470227705
The CLARITY Act then cleared the Senate Banking Committee this week, and the institutional response was immediate. As Senator Bernie Moreno put it, "stablecoins are now the law of the land." This is a regulatory greenlight that turns stablecoins from a gray-zone experiment into core US financial infrastructure, with the dollar exporting onchain at scale. With
$2T in stablecoin transfers on Solana
this quarter and 29 stablecoins across 12 currencies already in production, the rails were ready for when the rules caught up.
Here's what happened over the past two weeks:
Headline News
- @SoFi announced it is launching SoFiUSD on Solana, with Head of Big Business Banking Ben Reynolds citing cost, settlement speed, and throughput
- @WesternUnion 's $USDPT went live on Solana, the federally regulated, dollar-backed stablecoin issued by @Anchorage , and they confirmed on the Q1 earnings call that USDPT is positioned as an alternative to SWIFT for cross-border settlements
- @Anchorage Digital and J.P. Morgan Asset Management launched cashless reserves on Solana
https://x.com/solana/status/2051727729532313709
Stablecoin Issuers
- KRWQ, the Korean won stablecoin, expanded to Solana, unifying $100B+ in daily KRW liquidity onchain
- u/tether USA CEO u/BoHines explained Solana's role in Tether's new US product at Accelerate Miami
Banking & Card Issuance
- u/AviciMoney crossed $20M in card spends, all organic, across thousands of merchants and countries
- u/altitude previewed business stablecoin cards letting companies issue virtual cards and spend directly from their Altitude balance
- u/formacity introduced Kem, a USDT-native bank built on Solana
- u/reapglobal showcased an onchain operations stack with cashback rewards on business expenses, in partnership with u/SuperteamBlack
Payments & Commerce
- @SolanaFndn introduced Pay.sh in collaboration with @googlecloud , giving AI agents discoverable, accessible, pay-as-you-go API access
- @useDecal rolled out stablecoin rails for Main Street with ~1% fees, instant payouts, and yield-funded loyalty
- @streamflow_fi marked five years of streaming payments, vesting, and staking on Solana
- @surfcashx integrated @usebreezebaby , giving SurfCash users instant access to the best yields across Solana
- @MoonPay was named the official onramp of Pay.sh , letting any agent or developer fund their stablecoin balance from fiat in one flow
- u/@phantom integrated $CASH into Pay.sh
https://x.com/SolanaFndn/status/2051698987304956281
Government & Legislation
- The CLARITY Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee, with next steps being a full Senate vote and House reconciliation
Data & Reporting
- @Bitwise CIO @Matt_Hougan revealed stablecoin volume has outpaced Visa for two straight years
- @metaplex revealed that 47M x402 transactions have already been processed on Solana
- Adjusted stablecoin volume is projected to reach $719T by 2035, according to @KobeissiLetter
- Solana stablecoin volume now sits at $17B and growing via @sherazshere
- Solana saw $2T in stablecoin transfers this quarter via @amiravalliani
- @j0e_cooks of @BlockworksAdv published an in-depth piece on the stablecoin evolution on Solana
Solana Ecosystem News - May 17-2026
Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2056006219161022828
@Perps 🤝 Solana.
Europe's largest asset manager picks Solana, $1B in Spot ETFs, record-breaking collectibles.
Here’s everything else that happened over the week:
📰 Headline News
- @Amundi_ENG, Europe's largest asset manager (€2.4T AUM) and @Spiko_finance ($1.7B AUM) announced their UCITS fund on Solana
- @anza_xyz shipped P-Token to mainnet and Alpenglow on the community test cluster
- @kamino Ethena market crossed $400M in 24h, its fastest market expansion
📰 Launches
- @KrwqCash’s Korean won-pegged stablecoin, KRWQ, expanded to Solana
- @KrakenInsto rolled out regulated SPL custody, starting with 18 tokens
- @JupiterExchange partnered with @Bitwise to curate an institutional-grade Ethena lending market
- @reflectmoney integrated @BlockworksAdv for institutional risk analysis and capital allocation
- @crymbotech integrated with Solana to bring identity-verified execution to institutional and RWA platforms
- @ethena’s ENA went live natively on Solana via @sunrisedefi
- @jito_sol introduced FireBAM, a Frankendancer-compatible client pairing Firedancer's performance with BAM’s privacy and deterministic execution
- @jup_mobile rolled out a new redesigned app
- @PhoenixTrade activated 24/7 onchain crude oil and gold perps trading
- @ProofMarkets debuted "consequence markets," a new derivative category for pricing the impact of probable events
- @Collector_Crypt teamed with @ComicBook to launch a collectibles Gacha machine for 40M users
- @Beezie expanded its tokenized collectibles platform to Solana
- @cesto_co launched 3 new baskets, including a product built on @DDDTracker data
- @kem_app introduced a USDT-native bank built on Solana
- @zerion shipped a CLI giving agents a full trading and data stack
- @FlashTrade activated MCP for prompt-to-transaction execution
- @Dune launched Solana MCP support for querying Solana activity
- @glider__ introduced the Solana Ecosystem Portfolio for auto-rebalancing across major assets
- @ScorelyGG debuted Scorely Monitor, an x402-powered terminal for real-time sports betting
- @MiloOnChains rolled out v2 of its trading agent platform for autonomous strategies
- @TryNoahAI launched Noah 3.0 with a more efficient AI engine
- @MeteoraAG launched DLMM Quote Token Fees
- @craftsdev debuted Solana’s first sealed-bid auction for demand-based price discovery
- @askthehive_ai went live its non-custodial stablecoin yield aggregator on Solana
- @agentscoretrust facilitated the first autonomous AI agent wine purchase from @martinestateai with verified age-gating
- @GetRektApp launched Rekt, a perps + prediction markets app
- @DartExchange opened early access for low-slippage swaps
- @StarchildOnX integrated Solana Skills into its marketplace, enabling AI agents to build applications autonomously
- Breakpoint 2026 Early Bird tickets are on sale through May 31
- @incubator's Cohort 4 Demo Day lands in NYC on May 20
- @MonkeFoundry opened applications for cohort 2
📰 Milestones
- US Solana Spot ETFs crossed $1B AUM
- @bitget's preOPAI launch sale on IPO Prime closed with $119M committed across 5K+ participants
- @onrefinance’s ONyc surpassed $100M market cap
- @RockawayX’s USDC RWA vault on Kamino hit $40M in total supply
- @streamflow_fi celebrated five years as a core provider of Solana token vesting and payment infrastructure
- @)phygitals hit a new ATH of $250M total platform volume
- @solflare Private Send crossed $10M+ in volume
- @AviciMoney crossed $20M in card spends
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Colosseum Codex: P-Token, Solana Developer Program, Alpenglow Community Cluster
Source: https://blog.colosseum.com/p-token-developer-platform-alpenglow/
P-Token on Mainnet, Solana Developer Platform Open Sourced, Alpenglow Community Cluster Live
Here's what's featured in this week's issue:
- Anza releases P-Token on mainnet
- Solana Developer Platform is now open source
- Alpenglow Community Cluster test is live
⚡ P-Token
Anza shipped P-Token, an optimized rewrite of the SPL Token program, to Solana mainnet. Token instructions now use about 96% less compute, freeing 12-13% more block space for the network without changing block limits.
P-Token replaces the underlying code of the existing SPL Token program with a zero-copy architecture built on Pinocchio. Developers keep the same program ID and clients while gaining the compute reduction and new batching features.
Behavioral parity with the original program is backed by extensive auditing, fuzzing, and formal verification.
The change is specified in SIMD-0266, the Efficient Token Program proposal.
🛠️ Solana Developer Platform
The Solana Foundation has open sourced the Solana Developer Platform, an API-first enterprise development system for building and prototyping Solana-powered apps.
The platform provides wallets, token issuance, payments, compliance checks, and a hosted dashboard. It's built on Cloudflare Workers with a REST API and OpenAPI documentation, and the hosted version runs at platform.solana.com.
Full mainnet support is a few months out, and the project currently targets devnet-oriented development. The maintainers note the codebase has not been audited.
A self-hosting guide is expected in the next few weeks.
🌄 Alpenglow Community Cluster
Anza launched the Alpenglow community test cluster on May 11, letting external validator operators run the new consensus code in a live environment for the first time. The public cluster currently shows about 49 validators participating.
Alpenglow replaces TowerBFT and Proof-of-History with two new protocols, Votor and Rotor, targeting transaction finality of around 150 milliseconds, down from roughly 12.8 seconds. The change also frees up block space currently consumed by validator vote transactions.
Developers are also testing "Alpenswitch," the validator migration between TowerBFT and Alpenglow in a live network setting.
Mainnet activation, originally targeted for Q1 2026, could come next quarter if testing proceeds smoothly, per Anatoly Yakovenko at Consensus Miami. Next steps are packaging Alpenglow into an Agave release and activating it on testnet.
You can explore the live cluster via the Alpenglow Explorer operated by Valid Blocks.
Solana’s Alpenglow Goes Live for Community Testing
Want early access to the latest products launching from Colosseum?
We're looking for alpha testers to be among the first to try what we're building!
⚡ Quick Hits
How AI Agents Can Pay for Things | Pay.sh tutorial and integrations (video) - Bri
Solana's CPO Vibhu Norby Wants to Make Solana "The Chain for AI (video) - CoinDesk
What are Agentic Wallets? A 5-Minute Explainer - Quicknode
How to get started building on Solana - @lagunacarta
Stop Rewriting Your Backend Code - Solana Keychain Guide (video) - Jonas Hahn
The Decentralization of Money: Building the Internet Capital Market on Solana with Catherine Gu - TRM
Scale Your Solana Startup with Superteam Black - Superteam Black
⚙️ Tools & Resources
mpptestkit is a TypeScript SDK for testing pay-per-request Solana APIs using HTTP 402, handling wallet generation, devnet/testnet funding, and on-chain payment automatically.
Nitso is a copy-and-own React component library for Solana wallet UI, built on ConnectorKit and Wallet Standard, providing connect buttons, balance displays, token lists, and a WalletConnect modal via the shadcn registry.
litesvm-go is a Go binding for LiteSVM that gives Go developers a fast, in-process Solana VM for testing programs and clients without a validator or RPC.
metaplex-mastra-agent-template is a starter template for building Solana AI agents that register with the Metaplex Agent Registry, using Mastra, Metaplex Umi, and the PlexChat WebSocket protocol with public and autonomous signing modes.
💸 Funding
MoonPay acquired Dawn Labs, an AI research lab founded in 2025 by Neeraj Prasad, and launched Dawn CLI, an AI trading copilot that turns plain-English prompts into automated strategies for prediction markets.
Arcium ecosystem products collectively raised $7.5M across more than a dozen teams building on the privacy network, with Bench (an opportunity market for trading on signals) and Crafts (a sealed-bid auction launchpad) among the newer joiners alongside Umbra.
💀 RIP
Code4rena announced on May 13 that it is winding down the competitive audit platform. All open contests and bounties will be completed, with per-engagement timelines coordinated with sponsors and posted in the C4 Discord.
👩🔧 Get Hired
- Jito Labs is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - JTX
- Blockworks is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (Solana)
- Fermah is hiring a Senior Rust Engineer
- Exo Tech is hiring a Rust Engineer (Solana)
🎧 Listen to This
Lightspeed
Lucas Bruder, CEO of Jito Labs, joins Lightspeed to discuss the launch of JTX, a new Solana trading platform focused on professional retail users.
He also covers transaction execution, Bam infrastructure, pricing improvements, competition with centralized exchanges, Solana market structure, prediction markets, privacy features, and Jito’s long-term vision for onchain trading.
Inside JTX: Jito’s New Trading Platform | Lucas Bruder
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THIS WEEK IN MEDIA - 5/8-5/15
Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2055605336640491883
Read
- The Block: Korean won stablecoin KRWQ expands to Solana following March EDX Markets listing
- Kristin Smith op-ed in CoinDesk: It’s time for clarity for America’s digital asset markets
- CoinDesk: The biggest consensus overhaul in Solana history is officially live for testing
- TheStreet: Solana exec says 'big banks' are already preparing to settle in stablecoins
- TheStreet: Markets surge as Clarity Act clears Senate committee in landmark 15-9 vote
- The Block: It's a 'new era' for crypto users who 'trade anything and everything' as Jito goes consumer, CEO Bruder says
- Kraken Custody expands SPL token support for Solana builders and institutions
- Decrypt: Beezie Brings Tokenized Collectibles to Solana
- The Defiant: Ethena's ENA Token Launches on Solana via Sunrise DeFi: Solana
- Startup Fortune: Solana’s P-Token upgrade brings token efficiency to mainnet – Startup Fortune
- The Block: Jupiter taps Bitwise to curate institutional-grade Solana-based USDe lending market
- Decrypt: Major Solana Upgrade Alpenglow Begins Testing Ahead of Full Rollout
Watch
- Lightspeed: Inside JTX: Jito’s New Trading Platform | Lucas Bruder
- Kristin Smith on the Paul Barron Show: CLARITY Next Steps: Kristen Smith Interview - Solana Policy Institute
- Lily Liu on a Fundstrat Webinar: Solana and the Future of Programmable Capital Markets
- Vibhu Norby on CoinDeskTV: Solana's CPO Wants to Make It "The Chain for AI"
Listen
- Bits to Bricks with Amira Valliani, featuring Alex Wilson, CEO of Cyclops
- Solana is Global with Alex Scott, featuring Ronak, Superteam Nepal
- The Stack with Ilan Gitter, featuring Will, Orca
- The Index Podcast: Solana’s Agentic Finance Future with Bunny of Clawpump
Dune Introduces "Dune MCP" That Query Solana Activity Directly Inside Claude
Source: https://x.com/Dune/status/2055257075060732203
@solana moves fast. Your research workflow should too.
With the Dune MCP, you can query Solana activity directly inside Claude:
"Show me DEX volume, active wallets, and top programs on Solana over the last 30 days."
Results in seconds. No SQL required.
→ https://dune.com/agents
Kraken Custody Expands SPL Token Support For Solana Builders And Institutions
Source: https://x.com/KrakenInsto/status/2054973640563683437
Kraken Custody now provides qualified, regulated custody for the @solana SPL ecosystem.
18 tokens live at launch, with the infrastructure to support any SPL token going forward.
https://blog.kraken.com/product/kraken-institutional/spl-token-support-for-solana
The 18 live at launch:
$JITOSOL, $MSOL, $RENDER, $JUP, $PYTH, $RAY, $JTO, $HNT, $BONK, $WIF, $PUMP, $PENGU,
$FARTCOIN, $VIRTUAL, $ZBCN, $2Z, $CASH, and $GRASS.
Welcome
Phygitals Has Done 60,000,000 USD In The Last 2 Weeks On Solana
Source: https://x.com/phygitals/status/2055287070915022935
With over 25 packs, the most feature rich product, public API docs, six figure grails and some massive Web2 launches coming up... RWAs are just getting started
If you haven't signed up, you're still early
PhoenixTrade Is A Fully Onchain Orderbook DEX | PhoenixTrade: 0.005% Maker Fee Vs HyperliquidX: 0.015% Maker Fee
Source: https://x.com/minnus/status/2055300905944138061
The key thing about @PhoenixTrade isn't whether fees are cheaper to trade. It's the engineering feat they're pulling off.
Phoenix is a fully onchain orderbook DEX running on a general-purpose VM. That design lets it compose atomically with arbitrary smart contracts, which means DeFi can plug into it in a far more seamless way than @HyperliquidX's appchain + general VM sidecar model can.
That composability is the whole point. Phoenix isn't just a venue, it's infrastructure the rest of Solana DeFi can build on directly.
And that's exactly why it maps so cleanly onto the @solana thesis more broadly: one general-purpose chain where execution and composability live in the same place.
On this BTC example, Phoenix already tracks Binance materially tighter than Drift, holding 76% of hourly observations within ±5 bps versus Drift's 57%, while also avoiding sharp dispersions that weighed on Drift's performance. Based on this analysis, Phoenix still carries a small positive basis, but the gap is much narrower and impressively close to app-specific venues like Hyperliquid and @pacifica_fi.
That convergence is the signal to watch: if Phoenix's execution continues to tighten, it strengthens the case that Solana-native perps can approach the quality of more centralized or app-specific venues.
And note that we are still early. This is before @anza_xyz's Alpenglow and MCP, and before @jito_sol's BAM perp plugins.
I've always believed the chain that combines a general-purpose environment with application-specific execution quality will ultimately see runaway network effects.
Phoenix is the player to watch on this thesis right now: if Solana can support high-quality native @perps, it becomes much easier to imagine the same architecture extending into other latency-sensitive markets, from prediction markets to more exotic onchain derivatives.
Source: https://x.com/minnus/status/2054232656754221504
Phoenix perps maker fees are 3x cheaper than Hyperliquid.
@PhoenixTrade: 0.005% maker fee
@HyperliquidX: 0.015% maker fee
Lower maker costs should help attract tighter quoting, improve taker execution, and deepen liquidity over time.
Note that @gmtrade_xyz and @JupiterExchange use pool-based models so you cannot compare them like for like.
Source: https://x.com/minnus/status/2053999122646982970
For trading $SOL perps, Phoenix is already the cheapest venue we measured for $10k and $50k clips.
This is full round-trip cost, including taker fees and price impact.
As liquidity deepens, helped by maker fees that are multiple times cheaper than Hyperliquid, the same dynamic should start showing up across more perp pairs and larger trade sizes.
That creates a positive cycle: lower maker costs attract tighter quoting, tighter quoting improves taker execution, and better execution attracts more flow.
Paired with @Solana’s infrastructure roadmap, onchain venues like @PhoenixTrade could start becoming a material share of global perp volume.
Excited to see how commodities compare in the coming weeks.
MonkeDAO - MonkeFoundry Cohort 2 Application Is Now Open
Source: https://x.com/MonkeFoundry/status/2055340826616905884
Cohort 2 is officially open.
MonkeFoundry is looking for the next group of founders building high-conviction products on Solana.
If you’re building across DeFi, consumer, payments, gaming, AI, infrastructure, creator tools, social, or anything that pushes Solana forward, we want to see it.
Cohort 1 brought together talented teams, ecosystem partners, mentors, and investors.
Now we’re opening the door for the next group.
Selected teams will receive hands-on support, ecosystem visibility, founder resources, demo opportunities, and access to the MonkeDAO network.
Applications are open now.
Bring us what you’re building.
Apply now: https://form.typeform.com/to/AT2HM7zD
BREAKING: Amundi, Europe's Largest Asset Manager (€2.4T AUM) And Spiko Finance ($1.7B AUM) Are Launching A UCITS Fund On Solana
Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2055305677568917792
BREAKING: @Amundi_ENG, Europe's largest asset manager (€2.4T AUM) and @Spiko_finance ($1.7B AUM) are launching a UCITS fund on @Solana
FYI: UCITS (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) funds are regulated, open-ended investment vehicles that allow for the sale of mutual funds across the EU
Source: https://x.com/SuperteamUK/status/2055296595894178054
Announced at House of Sol: Amundi and Spiko bringing SAFO to Solana!
@Amundi_ENG - Europe's largest asset manager (€2.4T AUM) and @Spiko_finance ($1.7B AUM) are launching a UCITS fund on @Solana.
Anza - Solana Kit 6.9 Is Out
Source: https://x.com/anza_xyz/status/2055260304599031856
Solana Kit 6.9 is out.
This version adds fixed-point number support and a first-class Sol type.
Exact decimal and binary math in JS for token balances, prices, anywhere rounding errors are unacceptable.
Plus more shipped in this release 👇
Also landed in Kit 6.9:
• Agave v3.x vote-account and simulateTransaction fields
• Wallet Standard namespace:reference chain identifiers
• subscribe-to-payer/identity plugins, isAbortError()
https://github.com/anza-xyz/kit/blob/main/packages/fixed-points/README.md