Solana Compass
Solana Compass is an independent Solana analytics and staking platform. We have operated a validator on Solana mainnet since September 2021, and the data it produces powers the network statistics, staking and validator analytics, and ecosystem news published across this site.
Everything we publish — from staking statistics and network analytics to Solana ecosystem news — is grounded in on-chain data we collect and verify against our own infrastructure. Read more about how our articles are produced in our editorial standards, or see where our data has been cited in the press.
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Building Your Financial Life Onchain: Phantom
Phantom unveils prediction markets, Stripe-powered cash features, and developer tools at Solana Breakpoint 2024 - transforming crypto wallets into complete financial accounts
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Keynote: Figure (Mike Cagney)
Figure brings $22B in on-chain loans and launches first blockchain-native public equity on Solana, reshaping RWA and traditional finance infrastructure.
Tokenizing the Internet: Unlocking 364M Domains for a New Era of DeFi Growth
Major announcement: 50 million domains coming to Solana as tokenized real-world assets, enabling DeFi capabilities for the $350B domain industry
Fireside: Bybit's Ben Zhou
Bybit CEO reveals major licensing push, Latin America expansion, and how the exchange sees DEXs as complementary infrastructure for crypto's next billion users
Anza Block: Alessandro Decina
Solana's Agave client gets massive performance upgrades: 200x faster turbine, 30-second restarts, and scheduler optimizations that could enable increased block space
Leverage Without the Chaos: Introducing Turbo Tokens
Carrot unveils Turbo Tokens at Breakpoint 2024 - leveraged crypto exposure that feels like holding spot assets with no liquidation risk or active management required
Fireside: Bybit's Ben Zhou
Bybit CEO reveals major compliance push, new Solana DEX Barrio, and how centralized exchanges view their role in onboarding the next billion crypto users.
Product Keynote: Abra (Bill Barhydt)
ABRA announces AbraFi synthetic asset platform on Solana with plans to go public in Q1 2025 and nine-figure seeding commitments
Compass: Ensuring SPL-Token Stays Safe on Pinocchio Runtime Verification
Learn how Runtime Verification is using Compass to mathematically prove the Solana Token Program's Pinocchio upgrade won't break anything
Tech Talk: BULK
BULK is building a revolutionary decentralized exchange on Solana with 20ms latency, leaderless consensus, and real-time risk management to compete with centralized trading venues.
Making Global Business Run on Solana: Squads
Squads launches Altitude, a stablecoin-powered business account securing $15B+ on Solana. Learn how it enables global reach, instant transactions, and autonomous finance.
This House believes that over the next decade value will accrue to applications rather than L1s
Multicoin Capital, Pantera Capital, and 6th Man Ventures clash over whether apps or L1s like Solana will capture crypto's future value
Anchor: Today and Tomorrow
Anchor 1.0 launches with major security improvements, better tooling, and a roadmap featuring Pinocchio integration, native fuzzing, and security linting
Product Keynote: Birdeye
Birdeye unveils Birdeye Peak, a professional crypto data platform serving 4,000+ enterprise clients, with public beta launching Q1 2025
When Thousands of Data Scientists Rewrite the Laws of Price Formation
CrunchDAO launches Solana testnet to democratize AI model building, having already improved Harvard cancer detection by 30%
Anza Block: Alexander Meißner
Major Solana upgrades coming: 8x CPI nesting depth, account deletion, and simplified development. Here's what developers need to know.
The Future Is Borderless — and It Starts on Solana: deBridge
deBridge announces bundles API at Breakpoint 2025, promising gasless, one-click cross-chain execution starting from Solana.
Product Keynote: Drift (Cindy Leow)
Drift V3 launches on Solana with 10x faster performance, gasless trading, and a mobile app coming Q1 2025. Here's everything you need to know.
Breakpoint 2025: Anza Block
Anza reveals Solana's 2025 roadmap: 25% throughput gains, Alpenglow consensus bringing 150ms finality, and revolutionary MCP architecture ending single builder monopoly.
Legion and Solana: Positioned for Onchain IPOs
Legion reveals plans to bring regulated equity tokenization to Solana, eliminating the dual capital structure that has destroyed $250 billion in investor value
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