Topic: #solana
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Pump.fun books $18.6M weekly revenue as Talos finds 81% of sampled memecoins down 90%+
Pump.fun generated about $18.6 million in protocol revenue in the week through Oct. 7, per DefiLlama data cited by CryptoSlate, while a Talos study found 81% of sampled memecoins fell at least 90% from their highs.
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Samsung Wallet to add Solana-based USDC payments for 82 million U.S. Galaxy phones
Samsung Wallet will add USDC cross-border payments running on Solana for 82 million U.S. Galaxy devices in the last week of October 2026, according to a Solana Foundation announcement reported by U.Today.
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Raoul Pal says pauses in AI stocks let capital rotate into crypto
Real Vision founder Raoul Pal told Cointelegraph's Trade Secrets that pauses in the AI stock trade have let capital rotate into crypto, and that AI agents could push more activity to Ethereum and Solana.
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Shiba Inu burns 297.68 million SHIB as one transaction drives 6,847% rate jump
Shiba Inu's 24-hour burn rate rose 6,847.52% after 297.68 million SHIB left circulation, per Shibburn data reported by U.Today. A single transaction of 297,572,672 SHIB made up nearly all of it.
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Solana Foundation launches open-source DvP settlement program with J.P. Morgan input
The Solana Foundation announced Solana DvP, an open-source escrow program giving institutions a standardized API for delivery-versus-payment settlement, with design input from J.P. Morgan.
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Shiba Inu trading volume rises 171.8% after reported Solana launch
Shiba Inu's 24-hour trading volume topped $95.89 million, up 171.8%, after the meme coin's reported October 4 launch on Solana, according to CoinMarketCap data cited by U.Today. The data shows timing, not cause.
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Circle minted about 13.5 billion USDC on Solana in September, Crypto Briefing says
Circle minted roughly 13.5 billion USDC on Solana in September. Crypto Briefing's on-chain compilation calls it the largest monthly stablecoin mint on the network, though the figure counts gross issuance, not net new supply.
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Open USD (OUSD) launches with $468M supply, Stripe distribution deal
Open USD (OUSD), a stablecoin backed by more than 200 organizations, debuted Sept. 30 with about $468 million in circulation and a Stripe distribution deal, entering a market where USDT and USDC hold about 84%.
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Drift opens DFX recovery token claims for users hit by April incident
Drift launched DFX, a Solana recovery token that gives April incident victims one token per verified USDT lost, each redeemable from a Recovery Pool holding about 3.1 million USDT, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Solana Co.'s Joseph Chee says China will find a way to manage crypto
Solana Co. executive chairman Joseph Chee said at Korea Blockchain Week that China will eventually find a way to regulate or manage crypto, though mainland bans on trading and mining remain in force.
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Pump.fun co-founder outlines near-zero-fee app for Solana and crosschain trades
Pump.fun co-founder Alon Cohen described a mobile and social trading app charging roughly 0% on Solana trades and about 0.1% crosschain, with access to tokens on every chain, per Crypto Briefing.
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Co-founder Cindy Leow exits Velocity DEX, formerly Drift Protocol, report says
Cindy Leow, co-founder of the Solana perpetuals exchange formerly known as Drift Protocol, is leaving Velocity DEX effective September 29, weeks after a relaunch that followed a $280 million exploit, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Metaplex launches MPL-3643 token standard for tokenized securities on Solana
Metaplex has launched MPL-3643, a permissioned token standard modeled on Ethereum's ERC-3643 that gives Solana issuers onchain compliance controls. It's in a limited-access alpha, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Solana hits 7,699 monthly active programs as funded wallets climb 38.5%
Solana recorded 7,699 monthly active programs in September, Crypto Briefing reported, while Solscan data showed funded wallets rose 38.5% month over month to 16.10 million.
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Pump.fun's cumulative SOL sales reach $848 million after Kraken transfers, U.Today says
Pump.fun's fee accounts sold about 47,994 SOL (roughly $5.83 million) in two hours via Kraken deposits, taking cumulative SOL sales to about $848 million, according to U.Today's reading of on-chain data.
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Solana ETFs record $188.21M weekly inflow, largest since launch
Solana ETFs attracted $188.21 million in fresh capital during the week of September 21-25, 2026, marking the largest weekly inflow since their launch. All seven ETFs recorded positive inflows, with Bitwise's Solana Staking ETF capturing 68% of the total.
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PEPE hits $40M trading volume on Solana via Sunrise in one day
PEPE, an Ethereum-native meme token, crossed $40 million in trading volume on Solana within a day of its debut via Sunrise, an asset orchestration layer. The rapid uptake highlights meme token migration to faster, lower-cost networks.
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Solana ranks fourth in Zcash spot trading with $64M in 24 hours
Solana ranked fourth globally for Zcash spot volume with $64 million in trades over 24 hours, a 220% jump from prior metrics. The surge highlights DeFi's liquidity growth but underscores cross-chain bridge risks that have historically been the largest attack vector in decentralized finance.
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Bitcoin captures 77% of $1.3B crypto ETF inflow surge as BlackRock leads
Bitcoin accounted for 77.4% of $1.297 billion in inflows across US Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana ETPs from August 17–19, with BlackRock's IBIT fund leading the rebound. Ethereum accelerated sharply while Solana lagged its historical average.
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Solana bot cluster shows 3x profit edge via HumidiFi protocol, ASE study finds
An ASE 2026-accepted paper examining 200 addresses from two Solana bot services found that a 12-address cluster routed through HumidiFi with a 62.3% positive return rate versus 21.01% for other transactions in the group—but researchers stressed correlation, not causation.
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Solflare launches Aurora Intents cross-chain deposits for Solana
Aurora Labs has integrated its intent-based cross-chain protocol with Solflare, allowing users to deposit assets from Bitcoin, Ethereum, and seven other blockchains directly into Solana wallets without bridge apps or wrapped tokens. Transfers settle in under a minute from Ethereum and about 14 minutes from Bitcoin.
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Solana's Bonk DAO Loses $20M in Governance Attack
BonkDAO, the decentralized organization behind the Solana-based Bonk meme coin, suffered a $20 million treasury drain through a malicious governance proposal. More than 4.4 trillion BONK tokens were stolen in the exploit, and law enforcement has been notified.
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World launches Solana prediction market in Phantom wallet
World, a fully onchain prediction market platform, launched on Solana through Phantom wallet, letting users trade contracts on crypto prices and the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup using Chainlink oracles and Phantom's CASH stablecoin.
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Solana Mobile dApp Store hits 1,561 listings with 96 apps added in one week
Solana Mobile's dApp Store added 96 new applications in a single week, reaching 1,561 total listings. The platform charges developers zero fees, undercutting Apple and Google's 30% and 15-30% commissions respectively.