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Solana's First Full Epoch at the 200ms Slot Time Target Averaged 218.3ms and Lasted 26.2 Hours

Solana's First Full Epoch at the 200ms Slot Time Target Averaged 218.3ms and Lasted 26.2 Hours

Solana's first full epoch at the 200ms slot time target, epoch 1053, averaged 218.3ms per slot and lasted 26.2 hours, according to Solana Compass epoch data.

US Spot Solana ETFs Shed About $25M in a Week as Outflows Hit All Five Sessions
US Spot Solana ETFs Shed About $25M in a Week as Outflows Hit All Five Sessions

US spot Solana ETFs lost about $25M in the week of Oct 5-9, 2026, with outflows in all five sessions. Bitwise's BSOL accounted for roughly $21M of the total.

Jito Details BAM's Alpenglow Plan: Maintenance Mode for All Mainnet Nodes, No FireBAM During the Transition
Jito Details BAM's Alpenglow Plan: Maintenance Mode for All Mainnet Nodes, No FireBAM During the Transition

Jito plans to put all mainnet BAM nodes in Maintenance Mode before Alpenglow and tells FireBAM validators to switch clients. BAM carries 37% of Solana stake.

Anza CEO Brennan Watt Proposes Raising Solana's Block Compute Limit From 50M Back to 100M CUs
Anza CEO Brennan Watt Proposes Raising Solana's Block Compute Limit From 50M Back to 100M CUs

Anza CEO Brennan Watt opened a GitHub discussion on October 10 proposing to lift Solana's block compute limit from 50M to 100M CUs in five feature gates.

Helium Says First Wakefern Grocery Stores Are Live on the Helium Network, Carrying Carrier Traffic Over Store Wi-Fi
2026-10-09 16:23:44 Solana 🧭 Compass

Helium says first Wakefern stores are live on the Helium Network, carrying carrier mobile traffic over store Wi-Fi. Store count and carriers are undisclosed.

Solana's 200ms Slot Time Is Live on Mainnet at Epoch 1053, Completing SIMD-0525
2026-10-09 15:25:45 Solana 🧭 Compass

Anza confirmed Solana's 200ms slot time went live at epoch 1053 on 9 October 2026. Solana Compass data shows earlier steps ran 15ms to 19ms above target.

sbpf-linker 0.2.3: Blueshift Says Solana Programs Now Build on Upstream Rust and LLVM
2026-10-09 15:25:35 Solana 🧭 Compass

Blueshift's sbpf-linker 0.2.3, released 9 October 2026, adds default math builtins and an sBPF v3 default for building Solana programs on upstream Rust.

Sanctum Launches Sanctum Wrapped SOL (swSOL), a 1:1 wSOL Alternative That Pays Staking Yield to Integrators
2026-10-09 09:25:09 Solana 🧭 Compass

Sanctum launched swSOL on October 9, 2026: a 1:1 wrapped SOL alternative to wSOL that stakes part of its pool and pays the rewards to integrating protocols.

Grass Launches Contents API, a Live Web Retrieval Tool for AI Agents
2026-10-09 07:29:07 Solana 🧭 Compass

Grass, the bandwidth-sharing network behind the GRASS token on Solana, launched the Contents API, which turns public web pages into clean text for AI agents.

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JTX: Jito's Self-Custody Trading Platform for Solana, Explained

JTX: Jito's Self-Custody Trading Platform for Solana, Explained

JTX is Jito's self-custody Solana trading platform: CEX-grade order types, spot now with perps and prediction markets next, and 80% of fees routed to JTO.

What's Next For Solana In 2026?
What's Next For Solana In 2026?

Deep dive into Solana's 2026 outlook covering ETF inflows, payment for order flow dynamics, Axiom's revenue model, and why JitoSOL is losing market share to Sanctum.

Product Keynote: Glider (Brian Huang)
Product Keynote: Glider (Brian Huang)

Glider, backed by A16Z and Coinbase, launches on Solana with automatic rebalancing, yield optimization, and liquidation protection—all without gas or manual signing

Product Keynote: Uranium Digital
Product Keynote: Uranium Digital

Uranium Digital launches revolutionary spot market for uranium on Solana, transforming a $8M minimum, two-week settlement process into instant digital trading

NFT Ticketing Doesn't Work and We're Selling to Ticketmaster: KYD Labs
2025-12-13 00:00:00 Solana 🧭 Compass

KYD Labs reveals why NFT ticketing failed and launches TICKS protocol on Solana to challenge Ticketmaster's $10B lending empire

Product Keynote: Seedplex
2025-12-13 00:00:00 Solana 🧭 Compass

Seedplex introduces venture tokens on Solana, bridging equity fundraising with crypto distribution. Four companies launching January 2026.

Product Keynote: Layer33 - Marinade Finance
2025-12-13 00:00:00 Solana 🧭 Compass

Layer 33 coalition launches to protect Solana decentralization, introduces INDIE SOL LST, and reveals alarming validator decline statistics

Solana in the Multi-Chain World by NEAR Intents: NEAR Protocol
2025-12-13 00:00:00 Solana 🧭 Compass

Learn how NEAR Intents is solving cross-chain fragmentation with a new transaction paradigm that's processing billions in volume across 28+ chains including Solana

Product Keynote: Forma
2025-12-13 00:00:00 Solana 🧭 Compass

Forma reveals Isle of Man as first permanent Solana network city, following groundbreaking deals with Kazakhstan including national stablecoin and crypto city

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