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134 posts tagged with "Solana"

Articles about Solana blockchain and its high-performance ecosystem

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Meta's USDC Comeback: Stablecoin Creator Payouts Launch on Polygon and Solana
·Dora Noda·11 min

Meta's USDC Comeback: Stablecoin Creator Payouts Launch on Polygon and Solana

Four years after killing Diem, Meta is paying creators in USDC on Polygon and Solana through Stripe — starting in Colombia and the Philippines, expanding to 160 countries. Here is why this rollout works where Libra failed, and what it means for the stablecoin distribution map.

Meta
stablecoins
Polygon
Solana
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Project Eleven's $120M Bet: How a Special Forces Veteran Convinced Coinbase the Quantum Threat Is Already Here
·Dora Noda·10 min

Project Eleven's $120M Bet: How a Special Forces Veteran Convinced Coinbase the Quantum Threat Is Already Here

Project Eleven's $20M Series A at a $120M valuation signals that institutional crypto is taking the post-quantum threat seriously — and that yellowpages, its retrofit-first migration tool, may be the only practical path for the trillions already on-chain.

Bitcoin
Solana
cryptography
security
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RenderCon 2026: How Render Network Walked Into Hollywood and Walked Out With 60,000 GPUs, an AI Subnet, and a Museum
·Dora Noda·11 min

RenderCon 2026: How Render Network Walked Into Hollywood and Walked Out With 60,000 GPUs, an AI Subnet, and a Museum

Inside RenderCon 2026: how Render Network's RNP-023 vote, Dispersed AI subnet launch, MCP integrations, and a Hollywood-scale cultural play just rewrote the DePIN compute playbook.

DePIN
AI
Solana
decentralized-computing
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GSR's BESO ETF: How a Crypto Market Maker Just Outflanked BlackRock on Active Staking
·Dora Noda·9 min

GSR's BESO ETF: How a Crypto Market Maker Just Outflanked BlackRock on Active Staking

GSR's April 22 launch of BESO — the first U.S.-listed multi-asset crypto ETF authorized to stake — turns a 13-year-old market maker into BlackRock's newest competitor on active management.

ETF
staking
Bitcoin
Ethereum
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BILS Goes Live: How Israel's Shekel Stablecoin on Solana Rewrites the Non-USD Playbook
·Dora Noda·10 min

BILS Goes Live: How Israel's Shekel Stablecoin on Solana Rewrites the Non-USD Playbook

Israel's Capital Market Authority approved BILS, a shekel-pegged stablecoin issued by Bits of Gold on Solana — the first government-approved fiat stablecoin in the Middle East and a working template for non-USD tokenized money.

stablecoins
Solana
regulation
payments
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Western Union Picks Solana Over SWIFT: Inside the USDPT Stablecoin Pivot Reshaping the $905B Remittance Map
·Dora Noda·13 min

Western Union Picks Solana Over SWIFT: Inside the USDPT Stablecoin Pivot Reshaping the $905B Remittance Map

Western Union confirmed USDPT — a Solana-based stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank — launches in May 2026. Here's why the 174-year-old remittance giant chose Solana over SWIFT and what it signals for the $5 trillion cross-border stablecoin opportunity.

Solana
stablecoins
cross-border payments
TradFi
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When Hackers Become Coworkers: Inside the Six-Month North Korean Operation That Drained $285M From Drift Protocol
·Dora Noda·13 min

When Hackers Become Coworkers: Inside the Six-Month North Korean Operation That Drained $285M From Drift Protocol

North Korean operatives spent six months posing as a quant trading firm to compromise Drift Protocol's Security Council, then drained $285M in 12 minutes by exploiting Solana's durable nonces. Why DeFi's audit and multisig defenses fail against nation-state insider threats.

security
DeFi
Solana
cybersecurity
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Solana's $650B February: How a Non-EVM Chain Became the World's Busiest Stablecoin Rail
·Dora Noda·10 min

Solana's $650B February: How a Non-EVM Chain Became the World's Busiest Stablecoin Rail

Solana processed $650 billion in stablecoin transactions in February 2026 — more than Ethereum's $551B and the highest monthly volume on any blockchain. The data reframes which chain owns retail payments.

Solana
Ethereum
stablecoins
payments
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Solana's 99% Bet: Why the Foundation Thinks Humans Will Stop Touching the Blockchain by 2028
·Dora Noda·11 min

Solana's 99% Bet: Why the Foundation Thinks Humans Will Stop Touching the Blockchain by 2028

Solana Foundation CPO Vibhu Norby projects that AI agents will drive 99% of on-chain transactions within two years — backed by 15M agent payments, 65% market share of agentic activity, and 35M x402 transactions on Solana.

Solana
AI agents
infrastructure
x402
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