134 posts tagged with "Solana"
Articles about Solana blockchain and its high-performance ecosystem
Solana's Kora Fee Relayer: Gasless UX in Any SPL Token — and Who Actually Pays the Bill
Kora, the Solana Foundation's audited fee relayer, lets users transact with zero SOL by paying fees in USDC or any SPL token. How the five-step relay flow works, what a kora.toml node deployment looks like, why Ethereum needed ERC-4337 to match it — and who ends up holding the SOL bill.
Q1 2026 Crypto Security Report: How the $1.5B Bybit Hack Signals a New Era of Infrastructure Attacks
Q1 2026 saw $2 billion in crypto losses as attackers abandoned smart contract exploits for supply chain attacks, social engineering, and DNS hijacks. The $1.5B Bybit breach and $286M Drift Protocol hack reveal a new threat model requiring full-stack security beyond Solidity auditing.
Grass Protocol: How 8.5 Million Nodes Are Solving AI's $50B Data Crisis
Grass Protocol has assembled 8.5 million nodes on Solana that harvest public web data at petabyte scale for AI training — generating $12.8M in quarterly revenue while addressing the looming crisis of AI training data exhaustion through ZK-verified residential IP scraping.
Kraken's Crypto + xStocks Bundles Crack the Tokenized Equity Distribution Problem
Kraken's Crypto + xStocks bundles solve the distribution problem that held tokenized equities back for years, combining on-chain stocks with crypto in single-click portfolios for 9 million users. The xStocks ecosystem grew from $20M in value and 1,500 holders in December 2024 to $1B+ and 185,000 holders by March 2026.
SOON SVM L2: Can Solana's Virtual Machine Power a Universal Superchain?
SOON is exporting Solana's high-performance execution engine to Ethereum, BNB Chain, and beyond via a Decoupled SVM architecture. This analysis breaks down how it compares to Eclipse, whether the EVM's multi-chain network effect can repeat for SVM, and what the token data actually says about adoption.
Sui's Post-Quantum Leap: Stateless Signatures Signal a New Cryptographic Arms Race
Sui runs post-quantum stateless signatures on testnet while Solana ships Falcon-512 verification — a comparative look at how non-EVM L1s are leading the blockchain quantum-resistance race before 2029's projected Q-Day.
Your AI Agent Just Got a Wallet: Solana and Google Cloud's Pay.sh Changes How Machines Pay for the Internet
Solana Foundation and Google Cloud launched Pay.sh on May 6, 2026 — a stablecoin gateway letting AI agents pay-per-call for APIs using USDC on Solana, with no credit card or subscription required. Here's what it means for the agent economy and the infrastructure layer beneath it.
Anchorage's 20-Issuer Queue: The Stablecoin Factory Hiding in Plain Sight
Anchorage Digital is the only operational federally chartered crypto bank under the GENIUS Act, with 20 institutions queued to issue stablecoins through its OCC charter — a structural moat that resembles the early AWS, Stripe, and Plaid windows.
Morgan Stanley E*Trade 0.5% Crypto Fee: Wall Street's May Day Moment for Digital Assets
Morgan Stanley priced spot Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana trading on E*Trade at 50 basis points, undercutting Coinbase, Robinhood, and Schwab. Why a wirehouse-tier 0.5% fee may be crypto's first true Wall Street fee compression event.