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I'll admit it , using Solana feels great. Transactions are fast, fees are low, wallets work. Compared to Ethereum, it's night and day.

But the moment I need to move funds to another chain? Nightmare.

Every bridge has issues. Wormhole is decent but slow. deBridge is faster but fees jump around. Allbridge feels sketchy. I've had transactions stuck for hours, funds delayed for no reason, and zero support when something goes wrong.

Hey everyone! I’m brand new to trading and keep hearing about Grid Bots on Kraken Pro. The logic of buying dips and selling peaks sounds great, but I’m worried it’s a "too good to be true" situation.

Is this a viable way to make passive income, or will fees and market crashes eat my account? I’d love some "Explain Like I’m 5" knowledge or any pro-tips on setting ranges and avoiding traps. Should I build one or use a platform? Thanks for helping a beginner out!

Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2040402220416467354

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• The Street: SoFi taps Solana to power 'Big Business Banking'
• The Block: SBI Holdings' B2C2 designates Solana as primary stablecoin network for institutional clients
• American Banker: SoFi to offer combined fiat and crypto enterprise banking
• Motley Fool: The AI Cryptocurrency That Could Benefit From the Artificial Intelligence Boom
• Forbes: Crypto Policy Enter A New Phase: Insights From Solana Policy Institute
• The Street: Solana attracts tokenized equities as Galaxy enables DeFi lending
• Bloomberg: Coinbase, Cloudflare, Stripe Push to Shape Future of AI Money
• Solana Floor: Sunrise Brings $SUI to Solana as Network Outperforms Leading CEXs in Trading Volume
• Foundation Capital: What’s next for crypto

Watch

• Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder on the a16z crypto show: We chewed a lot of glass" — Building on Solana in the bear market (ft. Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder)
• Catherine Gu on Milk Road: The "NASDAQ of the Future": How Solana is Winning the Institutional Crypto Race w/ Catherine Gu
• Nick Ducoff on FintechTV: Tokenization’s Institutional Surge and the Future of Finance: A conversation with Solana Foundation's Nick Ducoff

Listen

• Miller Whitehouse Levine, CEO of the Solana Policy Institute, on the American Banker Podcast: Solana 101: What it is and why some banks use it
• Eugene Chen from Ellipsis Labs on Lightspeed: The Future of DeFi Trading: Routers, Perps, and MCP
• Arnold Lee from Sphere Labs on The Index Podcast: Building Stablecoin Rails for the World's Forgotten Markets
• Catherine Gu on the Validation Cloud podcast: Compliance, KYC and the Future of Institutional Blockchain Infrastructure
• On the Road featuring Robert Leshner, Superstate
• Solana is Global featuring Robert Farquhar, Ctrl Alt
• The Stack featuring Febo from Anza
• Bits to Bricks featuring Eleni Steinman, Lead Bank

Source: https://x.com/surfcashx/status/2040104408076444121

Argentina runs on stablecoins, around 89% crypto adoption is driven by people protecting their savings from inflation.

SurfCash is now live in Argentina.
We just connected your stablecoins on @solana to any payment QR Code in Argentina. 🏄

https://reddit.com/link/1sc0u74/video/8n2cnbhu04tg1/player

Argentina has more stablecoin holders per capita than almost anywhere on earth.
But spending that USDC locally has meant cashing out, losing fees, and jumping through hoops.
That ends today.

You just open SurfCash, scan the QR code on the counter, enter the amount and pay.
Your USDC converts and the merchant receives pesos in their account in seconds.
They do not even need a crypto wallet or change anything. The QR code everyone already has, works.

Argentina built Transferencias 3.0 which is a national interoperable QR system mandated by the Central Bank.
Every wallet reads the same code and every bank account holder is already on it.
We plugged SurfCash directly into that. That means you can pay any bank account holder in Argentina.

https://reddit.com/link/1sc0u74/video/xhzh33b114tg1/player

Argentina was always going to be this market.
Download SurfCash, or use the web app and spend your USDC in Argentina today.
https://app.getsurf.cash

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Source: https://x.com/SolanaFndn/status/2040106827786940684

Introducing Solana Agent Skills
Pre-built skills you can drop into AI tools to interact with Solana.
Install in one line and build agents that know Solana.

https://reddit.com/link/1sblj4z/video/663qvpcnp0tg1/player

Official skills from @SolanaFndn cover common errors, security checklists, confidential transfers, and version compatibility.

60+ community skills span DeFi, payments, infrastructure, and tooling from @JupiterExchange, @Raydium, @Helius, @dflow, @Metaplex, and more.

https://solana.com/skills

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Source: https://x.com/magicblock/status/2038982770064838998

The MagicBlock Private Payments API is now live on @Solana

Add confidential SPL transfers into your app in minutes with one API call
Compliant by default, it includes payment splits and time-delayed releases

🧵👇

https://reddit.com/link/1sc0r2t/video/rgwc9rysz3tg1/player

⚡️ The API

Pass in sender, recipient, amount, and optional scheduling params

Configure split payments and time-delayed disbursements

Add a 'Send Privately' toggle to your UI and that's it 🪄

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👀 What happens under the hood

1. USDC temporarily staged through delegated private execution through a TEE

2. Recipient details and release instructions encrypted on the client

3. Automated settlement queue releases funds to the destination on Solana

🔐 Privacy without the compliance headaches

Every payment request runs wallet screening and a real-time AML transaction checks before being processed

OFAC-sanctioned jurisdictions are geofenced

You inherit a compliant privacy layer out of the box

🤖 The API ships as an MCP server

Any MCP-compatible agent can initiate, schedule, and split private USDC transfers natively

x402 and MPP support coming soon

🔮 What this unlocks

- Payroll without exposing salary onchain

- Agentic commerce flows with private execution

- Anyone who doesn't want their Solana transfers public

Businesses, consumers & agents can now transact onchain with more confidence

🧙‍♂️ Try it now

The APIs and demo are available on Solana Mainnet in Beta

🔗 Demo: http://one.magicblock.app

📄 Docs: http://docs.magicblock.gg/pages/private-ephemeral-rollups-pers/api-reference/per/introduction

📝 Full Blog: http://magicblock.xyz/blog/private-payments-api

Source: https://x.com/PodsFinance/status/2040076768229421423

Pods is expanding to @solana.

We’re excited to announce that Pods is integrating Solana DeFi strategies into our infrastructure, unlocking new ways for neobanks and fintechs to access onchain yield, capital-efficient products, and deeper stablecoin utility.

This is not only for teams already building on Solana.

It also means that neobanks operating on other chains will be able to tap into Solana’s growing financial ecosystem through Pods, without needing to rebuild their entire stack from scratch.

As more neobanks embrace stablecoins and DeFi as part of their backend, access to the right chains and the right strategies becomes a real competitive advantage.

Solana is one of the most important ecosystems shaping that future, and we’re excited to help bring its opportunities to more financial platforms.

More to come.

https://reddit.com/link/1sbz61x/video/2ypt91f1l3tg1/player

If you’re building a neobank, fintech, or financial product and want to understand how these strategies can fit into your stack, book a call with our team:

https://calendly.com/rafaellabaraldo/15-minute-meeting

Source: https://x.com/EitherwayAI/status/2040156885114929640

Introducing the Superteam Earn Hackathon, in collaboration with @SuperteamEarn

In anticipation of @colosseum, where over $2.5M in prize pools and bounties will be distributed to builders across @solana, build any product directly using @EitherwayAI.

The winners will be chosen based on the best product idea and voted for by each party in the activation. 

Mandatory tech stack to use when building with Eitherway:

@solflare: Full gas coverage for builders, secure wallet auth/sign in.

@dflow: Prediction markets, spot crypto, MEV protection, advanced execution systems.

@Quicknode: Enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure.

@kamino: Unified lending on stablecoins & RWAs like PRIME/OnRe, automated liquidity vaults, and xStocks leverage.

Competition begins in 2 days.

https://reddit.com/link/1sbpgn6/video/fb0tq0rrf1tg1/player

Want to enter the Superearn hackathon and build with Eitherway?
Compete for $11,000 in prizes:

https://superteam.fun/earn/listing/build-a-live-dapp-with-solflare-kamino-dflow-or-quicknode-with-eitherway-app/

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Source: https://x.com/solanapayments/status/2040186873230901268

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Two large financial institutions chose Solana for stablecoin settlement this week.

SoFi, a nationally chartered bank with 13.7M members and $50B+ in assets, announced plans to integrate Solana for enterprise fiat and stablecoin banking alongside partners including Jupiter, Mastercard, Fireblocks, and BitGo.

SBI Holdings' B2C2, one of the largest institutional liquidity providers, designated Solana as its primary network for settling stablecoin transactions, supporting USDC, USDT, PYUSD, USDG, USD1, EURC, and FDUSD for clients including Robinhood, Standard Chartered, and Anchorage Digital.

Here's what else happened:

Stablecoins

• @StraitsX launched XSGD and XUSD natively on Solana, powering one of the fastest-growing card programs in Southeast Asia with 40x transaction volume growth YoY
• @worldlibertyfi 's USD1 is now supported in the @Zebec_HQ Super App for streamed payroll
• @sanafionchain added multiple non-USD stablecoins on Solana into the Sana App

Custody & Infrastructure

• @magicblock launched Private Payments API on Solana for confidential SPL transfers

Payments & Commerce

• @surfcashx is now live in Argentina
• @SP3NDdotshop demoed AI agent purchasing from Amazon with USDC on Solana

Payments.org

• Learn more about how businesses use stablecoins on Solana for global contractor, creator, and vendor payout s
• Download the use case playbook for Payments , mapping Solana's payments stack across five verticals: embedded finance, global payouts, merchant experiences, remittances, and treasury solutions
• "How Western Union is Future-Proofing Payments" webinar announced for April 8 at 8:30 AM ET with Malcom Clarke from Western Union

Data and Milestones

• Stablecoin transaction volume is now ~$2 trillion/month, nearly 9x the size of gold futures on CME (via @KobeissiLetter )
• Growth in non-USD stablecoins on Solana spotlight from @Dune , with unique senders of EURC and BRZ nearly tripling YoY

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• @multisig crossed 1M+ transactions on Solana
• @blindpay crossed $1B in volume, half of it this year
• Solana closed March with 11M peer-to-peer stablecoin transactions, a new peak

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