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Drift Co-Founder Cindy Leow Steps Down, Hands Rebuilt Velocity Exchange to New Team
Drift co-founder Cindy Leow is stepping down from the rebuilt exchange, now Velocity, handing the USDT-settled Solana perps venue to a new leadership team.
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Cloak Launches Private Payroll on Solana for USDC and USDT Salaries
'Cloak has launched private payroll on Solana: companies upload a spreadsheet
Coinbase Wrapped ADA (cbADA) Goes Live on Solana via Sunrise, Bridged by Chainlink CCIP
Coinbase Wrapped ADA (cbADA) is live on Solana via Sunrise, bridged by Chainlink CCIP, with trading on Raydium and cbADA base pairs on Pump.fun and StonkFun.
Jito Publishes BAM Attestations Design So Validators Can Verify Solana Transaction Ordering
Jito's BAM Team published its attestations design: TLS is live on all mainnet BAM nodes, the Registry is on testnet and Solana ordering proofs are in testing.
Jupiter Adds Solana Transaction V1 Support to jup.ag Swaps and Jupiter Wallet
Jupiter now supports Solana Transaction V1 on jup.ag and Jupiter Wallet,
Bitquery Flags $117.7B, or 58%, of Solana DEX Volume as Circular or Bot-Like
Bitquery flags $117.7B of $201.4B in Solana DEX trading from Aug 24 to Sep 22 as circular or bot-like. How it classifies trades and why the totals differ.
USD.AI's GPU-Backed USDai and sUSDai Go Live on Solana With Kamino and Jupiter Markets
USD.AI's GPU-loan-backed USDai and sUSDai are live on Solana, with a Kamino lending market curated by Allez Labs and three new Jupiter Earn vaults on day one.
Zama's ZAMA Token Goes Live on Solana via Sunrise, Trading on Raydium, DFlow
Zama's ZAMA, the utility token of an FHE encryption protocol, is live
Frontier Traders Season 1 Opens With $1M+ in Perps Rewards on Phoenix and Solflare
Frontier Traders Season 1 is live: the Solana Foundation'
Solomon Labs' USDv Goes Live on Solana via Sunrise, Anchored by Raydium Liquidity
Solomon Labs' USDv stablecoin, fully reserved and routing reward income to opted-in holders, is live on Solana via Sunrise with Raydium as its liquidity home.
Kamino Launches tGBP Market on Solana, Bringing Sterling Lending Onchain
Kamino launched a tGBP market curated by Steakhouse Financial, letting
Meteora Referral Staking Cycle 2 Distributes Over $700K in USDC, More Than Double Cycle 1
Meteora Referral Staking Cycle 2 distributed $700K+ USDC to stakers and referrers, more than double Cycle 1's $336K, with 89M+ MET staked and over 11,000 users.
Jupiter Mobile Adds One-Click Send to Spend for Instant USDC Card Funding
Jupiter Mobile's Send to Spend feature moves USDC from wallet to Jupiter Card in one tap, removing the friction from crypto debit card funding on Solana.
Solana Foundation Open-Sources Microscope, a Free Self-Hosted Program Monitoring Tool
Solana Foundation open-sourced Microscope, a free self-hosted monitoring stack for Solana on-chain programs with Slack, Telegram, and PagerDuty alerting.
SoFi Becomes First Nationally Chartered U.S. Bank Live With Stablecoin Settlement on Mastercard, 70% Running on Solana
SoFi Bank, N.A. is the first nationally chartered U.S. bank to go live on Mastercard's global payments network, settling its $25B card program in SoFiUSD.
ApeCoin ($APE) Goes Live on Solana as a Canonical Token via Sunrise, Trading Open on Raydium
Sunrise listed ApeCoin (APE) as a canonical NTT token on Solana on Sep 22. $APE trades on Raydium and LaunchOnSF now accepts APE as a launchpad base pair.
Jupiter Perps Adds Six Markets Including Tokenized SpaceX, HYPE, and ZEC via GUM Orderbook
Jupiter Perps added six markets via the GUM orderbook on Sep 22: HYPE, ZEC, SPCX (SpaceX), SNDK (SanDisk), SKHYNIX (SK Hynix), and JUP with up to 20x leverage.
X Cashtag Trade Button Goes Live in US, Routing $SOL and Stocks to Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini
X's US Cashtag Partner Program is live, attaching a Trade button to $SOL and other tickers that routes users to Coinbase, Kraken, or Gemini for order execution.
Jupiter Lend Hits $2.41 Billion in Total Deposits, a New All-Time High
Jupiter Lend reached $2.41 billion in total deposits on September 22,
Kamino Finance Launches Fixed-Rate Multiply Vault on Solana with 5.3% Locked Borrow Rate
Kamino Finance's first Fixed Rate Multiply vault is live on Solana, offering AUTO/wYLDS users a locked 5.3% annual borrow rate for rolling 30-day terms.
Solana Processes 76% of All x402 AI Agent Transactions, 23.2 Million in Four Weeks
Solana handled 23.2 million x402 AI agent transactions in four weeks, 76% of all network activity and nearly 7x the second-largest chain, per Artemis data.
Solana DEXs Log 208 Million Weekly Trades, Overtaking NYSE in Trade Count for First Time
Solana DEXs logged 208 million weekly trades, topping NYSE's 189 million in the first time a blockchain has outpaced a major stock exchange in trade count.
Backpack Securities Charges 0.12% Against Robinhood Chain 5.42% for Small-Dollar
Blockworks Research data shows Backpack Securities on Solana costs 0.12%
Jupiter Gacha Crosses $50M in Total Trading Volume on Solana
Jupiter Gacha crossed $50M in total volume on Solana on September 21, with five pack categories including Sports, Watch Packs, and Riftbound now live.
PEPE Lands on Solana as a Canonical SPL Token via Wormhole NTT, Hits $40M Volume in 24 Hours
Ethereum meme token PEPE launched as a canonical Solana SPL token via Wormhole NTT and Sunrise on September 18, clearing $40M in trading volume within 24 hours.
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