134 posts tagged with "Solana"
Articles about Solana blockchain and its high-performance ecosystem
Solana DePIN's $2.9M Inflection: Lyft and T-Mobile Stopped Treating Crypto Hardware as a Hobby
Solana DePIN protocols hit $2.9M monthly revenue in March 2026 as Lyft adopts Hivemapper Bee Maps and Helium's carrier-offload deals with T-Mobile, AT&T, and Telefónica reshape the sector from speculation into procurement.
Solana's Post-Quantum Paradox: When 40x Signatures and 90% Speed Loss Threaten the Fastest Chain's Identity
Solana's first end-to-end post-quantum signature tests showed 40x larger signatures and a 90% throughput drop. Here is why Anza and Firedancer both chose Falcon, why Solana is uniquely exposed to a quantum break, and how the migration compares to Bitcoin's BIP-360 and Ethereum's account-abstraction path.
Stablecoins Hit $311B: USDC Doubles, USDT Holds 59%, and the Reserve Playbook Gets Rewritten
Stablecoin market cap hits $311B in April 2026. Circle USDC doubled to $78B, Tether holds 59% with $184B, and yield-bearing tokens grow 15x faster than the market.
Firedancer at 1M TPS: Solana's $100M Bet on Killing Single-Client Risk
Firedancer's full mainnet release in December 2025 marks Solana's largest engineering bet ever — but the real story is whether 1M TPS demos translate into the multi-client resilience institutional capital actually requires.
DeFi's $606M April: Why 2026's Worst Hack Month Isn't About Smart Contracts
April 2026 saw $606M stolen from DeFi protocols in 18 days. Kelp DAO, Drift, and Resolv Labs were drained not by smart contract bugs but by configuration changes and operational seams that audits don't catch.
Binance Puts Tokenized SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic in 270 Million Pockets
Binance's April 2026 Pre-IPO launch puts tokenized SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic exposure in the Web3 Wallet of 270 million users. Inside the SPV structure, the SEC risk, and why distribution — not product — is the real story.
Meme Launchpad 2.0: How Pump.fun and LetsBonk Are Rebuilding Solana's $6.7B Meme Economy
Pump.fun retired $213M in tokens and LetsBonk grabbed 64% market share — how anti-sniper protection, bonding curve maturity, and on-chain reputation are rebuilding Solana's meme economy.
Solana's Kora Signing Node Is the Quiet UX Pivot That Could Reset the Consumer Crypto Race
Solana's new Kora fee relayer ships native gasless transactions and SPL-token fee payment — closing the last-mile onboarding gap that let Base and Abstract dominate consumer crypto UX.
Virtuals Protocol + BitRobot: When AI Agents Start Paying Robots
Virtuals Protocol's Q1 2026 integration with BitRobot Network wires 17,000 on-chain AI agents into physical robotic infrastructure, turning agent-to-machine commerce from thought experiment into production system.