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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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.
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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
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.
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
Tech Talk: Solana Mobile / Solana Labs
Solana Mobile reveals new grants program, upcoming hackathon, and impressive ecosystem metrics including 100K+ Seeker activations and $100M in economic activity
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
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
Sorare x Solana: Transforming Sports, Crypto and Collecting
Sorare migrates 17 million sports NFT cards to Solana, partners with NBA and Premier League, and launches builder program for DeFi and gaming experiences
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
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
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.
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.
BP 2025: The Institutional Case for Solana: Multicoin Capital / Forward Industries
Multicoin Capital's Kyle Samani reveals why Solana's upcoming MCL and ACE technologies will power global internet capital markets - a vision as important as AI.
Product Keynote: Artemis (Jon Ma)
Artemis unveils alpha at Breakpoint: Solana captures 5-6% of B2B payments on-chain. New dashboard coming Q1 2025 to track real payment volume across blockchains.
Solana's Onchain Nasdaq Thesis | Carlos Gonzalez Campo
Deep dive into Solana's evolving network economics, the new SIMD-411 inflation proposal, Jupiter's DeFi super-app ambitions, and how prop AMMs could transform on-chain price discovery
Product Keynote: Baillie Gifford
120-year-old asset manager Baillie Gifford makes the case for TradFi institutions to build on Solana and embrace blockchain technology
Product Keynote: Keel
Keel announces largest single RWA placement on Solana with $500M allocation, attracting 40+ major asset managers
Product Keynote: Astana International Finance Centre
Discover how Kazakhstan's AIFC became a global leader in crypto regulation, launching the first Solana ETF with staking and achieving IOSCO recognition.
Product Keynote: Baillie Gifford
120-year-old asset manager Baillie Gifford urges traditional finance to stop procrastinating and build on Solana, signaling major institutional interest in blockchain infrastructure.
Fireside: Galaxy's Mike Novogratz
Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz reveals Sweep launch on Solana, predicts massive tokenization wave, and explains why crypto's proving ground is now
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