134 posts tagged with "Solana"
Articles about Solana blockchain and its high-performance ecosystem
Western Union's USDPT: A 175-Year-Old Wire Empire Bets on Solana
On May 4, 2026, Western Union launched USDPT — a Solana-based stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital — turning its 550,000 retail agent network into the world's largest stablecoin on/off-ramp and signaling that TradFi-to-crypto payments migration is happening in 2026, not a decade from now.
Arcium's Encrypted Supercomputer: Why MPC May Be Web3's Missing Privacy Layer
Arcium's MPC-powered encrypted supercomputer launched on Solana in February 2026, and its ecosystem just crossed $7.5M with live apps for sealed-bid auctions, private wallets, and confidential information markets. Here is why it could become Web3's default privacy layer.
Drift Drops Circle: The $148M Bailout That Rewrote DeFi's Stablecoin Trust Playbook
Drift Protocol replaced Circle's USDC with Tether's USDT after a $285M Lazarus exploit and a $148M Tether-led recovery pool — turning stablecoin freeze policy into a switchable trust SLA across Solana DeFi.
Wall Street on Solana: Inside the Securitize-Jump-Jupiter Tokenized Equity Stack
On May 5, 2026, Securitize, Jump Trading, and Jupiter shipped the first fully onchain, regulated tokenized equity stack on Solana — combining a registered broker-dealer ATS, institutional market making, and permissionless DEX distribution in a single transaction path.
Korea's Largest Card Network Picks Solana: Inside Shinhan's 28M-Cardholder Stablecoin Pilot
Shinhan Card and the Solana Foundation signed an April 30, 2026 MoU to pilot consumer-to-merchant stablecoin payments — the first Korean card network committing to a public chain as the won-stablecoin race accelerates and the Bank of Korea pushes back.
Carrot Protocol's Shutdown Just Proved DeFi's Composability Was a Contagion Vector All Along
Carrot Protocol shut down on April 30 after losing half its TVL to a Drift Protocol exploit it was not part of — the cleanest test yet of whether DeFi composability is also a silent contagion vector.
io.net Agent Cloud: When AI Agents Start Buying Their Own GPUs
io.net's March 2026 Agent Cloud lets AI agents autonomously rent GPUs, pay in stablecoins, and scale workloads without human approval — and it forces every DePIN GPU network to answer what their market looks like when the buyer is software.
Solana's 3-Year Quantum Wedge: Why Yakovenko Told Ethereum L2 Users to Abandon All Hope
Anatoly Yakovenko told Ethereum L2 users to 'abandon all hope' on quantum safety the same hour Anza and Firedancer shipped Falcon-512 verification — opening a 3-year competitive window before Ethereum's 2029 post-quantum deadline.
Firedancer's $1M Gauntlet: Solana's Multi-Client Bet Faces Its Sharpest Test Yet
Jump Crypto opened a $1M bug bounty on Firedancer v1, Solana's first fully independent validator client. The 30-day Immunefi audit will decide whether Solana finally crosses the multi-client threshold.