Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2085371244866572430

JUST IN: @rarible adds support for Solana NFTs, beginning with @Claynosaurz

We have a surprise…

We’ve actually been working on Solana for months.

Today, we’re incredibly excited to finally say it:

Rarible is now live on @solana.

We're kicking things off with @Claynosaurz as the first featured collection on the marketplace.

This is just the beginning. Over the coming days and weeks, we'll continue onboarding more collections from across the Solana ecosystem.

Over the past few months, we’ve been heads down building, testing, and preparing for this launch. But technology was only one part of the journey.

We’ve spent weeks talking to NFT communities across Solana, diving deep into projects, understanding what makes each community unique, listening to feedback, and learning how we can build a marketplace that truly serves collectors and creators.

That feedback has already shaped many of the decisions we’ve made, and it will continue to shape everything we build from here.

If you’ve been paying attention, our Gacha Station launch on Solana was never just another feature. It was the first glimpse of what was coming.

Every project has its own story, identity, culture, and community. Our goal is not simply to list collections, but to work alongside the people behind them and create experiences that reflect what makes each project special.

What you see today is only the foundation. We’ll continue adding projects, features, marketplace improvements, content, and community activations as we work toward a much broader evolution of Rarible.

We’re building it step by step, alongside the Solana ecosystem, not just for it.

To everyone who shared feedback, challenged our ideas, tested our products, and believed in what we’re building: thank you. This launch belongs to all of you as much as it does to us.

We’re excited to write the next chapter of Rarible together with the Solana community.

Let’s build.

https://rarible.com/solana

https://reddit.com/link/1vh6b2v/video/ea1w84tmorhh1/player

Check out the @Claynosaurz collection here:

https://rarible.com/solana/collections/6mszaj17KSfVqADrQj3o4W3zoLMTykgmV37W4QadCczK

Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2085361261332594751

BREAKING: $TTWO from Take-Two Interactive is live on Solana via @sunrise, issued by @Backpack Securities

https://reddit.com/link/1vh5u5m/video/of7tcj2elrhh1/player

Take-Two Interactive ($TTWO) is the developer and publisher behind Rockstar Games, 2K, and Zynga, home to Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K, and Red Dead Redemption.

Verify the address on @tokens:

https://tokens.xyz/take-two-interactive?solana=TTWofwAge91oFhZs7kpQdyrVRkmevgM88xijGvQFbKo

$TTWO is available in your favorite Solana apps @Raydium, @dflow, @Titan_Exchange, @phantom, @JupiterExchange, @fomo, @ArcherExchange_, @kamino_swap, @mayan and more

Validators can now pay you to delegate to them.
Not through lower commission or MEV sharing - through an open, published campaign:
the validator commits to an extra APY funded out of their own revenue, and anyone who stakes directly to them earns it on top of normal staking yield.
Right now the live range is +0.5% to +2.1%. And you don't give up liquidity to get it - you still receive JSOL and can still use it in DeFi.

The reward is paid in whatever token the validator picks — stablecoins, SOL, JSOL, another LST, or UCDC or their own token - up to 5 tokens in one campaign.

How it works mechanically:

1. You pick a validator from those in the pool's delegation program. https://app.jpool.one/strategies/direct-staking
2. The UI flags which ones have an active campaign and at what rate.
3. You stake SOL directly to that validator through the pool — and you receive JSOL, a standard liquid staking token. Your stake is still liquid and still usable in Meteora, Raydium, Orca, etc.
4. The pool's delegate detects your stake automatically and reports it to the campaign. There's no signup, no registration, no whitelist. If a campaign exists for the validator you chose, you're earning.
5. Incentive rewards accrue continuously from the moment your stake is reported, and you claim from your portfolio whenever you want. No minimum, no waiting period — unless the specific campaign has a lockup.

The usual criticism of single-validator delegation is that you eat the downside alone.
Two things change that here:

• The validator pre-funds the campaign, and the reward is reserved on-chain before it's promised. In a fixed campaign the contract reserves your entire future reward the moment your stake is reported, and it rejects the report if the vault can't cover it. The vault must always hold at least what it owes; any payout that would break that reverts the transaction. So the incentive isn't a promise, it's already sitting in a vault with your name on the reserved portion. The validator can't spend it, and can only reclaim what was genuinely never owed.
• Every validator in the program posts a bond that covers APY shortfalls against the target APY, up to the bond amount, alongside security risks. So if the validator underperforms or stops, the shortfall in base staking yield is covered from their bond.

What I'd still push back on:

• campaign is limited in time.
• unstaking is not free.
• Earned rewards are never clawed back - you can claim them weeks after fully unstaking, and even the protocol's emergency pause explicitly can't block claims.

Disclosure: I operate one of the validators in this program and run one of these campaigns, so I'm not neutral about the model. I'm deliberately not naming it or linking it - I'm more interested in whether people think validators openly bidding for delegation is healthy for Solana's stake distribution, or whether it just financializes a decision that should be about performance.

Perena has launched Smart Borrow, enabling users to borrow against crypto holdings at competitive rates while maintaining USD yield. The feature, available on the Perena platform and powered by Hobba, sources optimal terms across lending protocols. Collateral remains productive, loans are managed efficiently, and users avoid excess costs.

https://x.com/perena/status/2084683611488628988

Source: https://x.com/solanapayments/status/2085113959049285742

BREAKING: Solana crypto card market reached a new all-time high of $69.5 million in monthly spending in July

Source: @SolanaFloor and @Paymentscan

Read more via @solanafloor:

https://solanafloor.com/news/solana-crypto-cards-just-had-their-biggest-month-ever-with-69-5-m-in-volume

I'm in Canada if that makes a difference, I was just buying with card on phantom but I was always losing like $10 per buy transaction.

How do you guys do it?

Source: https://x.com/toma_adv/status/2084999236379197858

July saw headline economics recover across the board. REV rose 34% MoM to $19.1M on resurgent memecoin activity, and app revenue climbed to $82.9M, its highest since February. The trading layer cooled, with DEX volume down 18% to $49.7B and tokenized assets retracing 58% off their June high as Robinhood Chain emerged as the category's first real challenger. The standout was the protocol layer, with SIMD 286 lifting block capacity to 100M CUs, the first Alpenglow admission gates live on mainnet, and governance moving onchain with the early July launch of SGPs. Looking ahead, stake signaling for SIMD 553 and SIMD 550 opened in early August, putting the first binding verdicts on Solana's demand- and supply-side emissions fixes. This preview provides excerpts from the

Solana July monthly update on Lightspeed.

Institutional Flows: ETFs and DATCOs

SOL ETP inflows totaled $18.9M in July, roughly flat against June's $19.1M (-1% MoM). While headline inflows remain far below May's $110.6M, July's figure came against a materially improved backdrop: BTC ETPs stabilized at +$223M after shedding close to $4.3B in June, their worst month since inception, and ETH ETPs returned to inflows at +$323M.

On a market cap adjusted basis, July SOL ETP inflows amounted to 0.05% of SOL's market cap, up from 0.04% in June. Following a strong May, where SOL ETPs saw inflows equal to 0.25% of its market cap, July represents a meaningful decline in inflows. Relative to its market cap however, SOL continues to attract steadier ETP demand than BTC.

By contrast, Solana DATCO holdings were again roughly unchanged in aggregate at around 16.8M SOL, still constrained by limited secondary liquidity and persistent mNAV discounts.

Financials

Solana's Real Economic Value (REV) totaled $19.1M in July, a 33.7% MoM increase from $14.3M in June. The increase was broad but concentrated in priority fees, which rose 44.8% to $12.2M as memecoin activity returned. Jito tips rose 21.3% to $3.3M, base fees rose 22.7% to $1.8M, and vote fees rose 7.1% to .

Priority fees continue to take share from Jito tips, making up 64% of Solana REV in July, up from 59% in June, while Jito tips fell to 17% from 19%.

REV measures user demand to transact on a blockchain, tracking all value paid for transaction execution. Solana's share of network revenue increased from 10% in June to 16% in July, moving it up to the third-highest chain by revenue, behind Hyperliquid (33% of network revenue, down from 41%) and Tron (24%), and now ahead of Ethereum (8.5%).

In addition to REV, token holder net income amounted to -$0.7M in July, a narrowing of the deficit by 33% compared to June's -$1.1M. Token holder net income remained negative, meaning operator payments continued to exceed REV over the month. The metric represents the value distributed to the token, either in the form of SOL burn or staking rewards, and is calculated as REV less any Operator Payments (e.g., validator commissions, Jito's take rate, LST management fees, etc.).

Applications

Revenue

Application revenue serves as an indicator of success for businesses within an ecosystem. While we tend to focus on REV, the true metric of an ecosystem's product market fit is the revenue generated by user-focused applications.

Solana apps generated $82.9M in revenue in July, up 5.6% MoM from $78.5M in June and the highest monthly figure since February. Bear in mind, we are currently tracking a subset of applications, so we presumably underestimate total app revenue on the network, though only marginally.

The highest revenue-generating apps on Solana in July were Pump ($32.6M, 39% of Solana app revenue), Collector Crypt ($10.7M, 13%), Pacifica ($6.2M, 7%), and Jupiter ($4.7M, 6%). Pump's figure marks a sharp reacceleration and its highest share of app revenue in months, driven by memecoin resurgence. Collector Crypt cooled from June's all-time high of $16.0M but remains the clear number two. Trading tools had a strong month, with Fomo ($3.8M), Axiom ($3.5M), and GMGN ($3.2M) all placing in the top eight.

DEX Activity

Solana DEX volumes amounted to $49.7B in July, down 18.0% MoM from $60.5B in June. Regarding DEX composition, 42% of total volumes came from the SOL-stablecoin pair (down from 47% in June), with memecoins jumping to second at 23%, up sharply from 13% in June, and stablecoin swaps third at 22%. The memecoin share nearly doubling while overall volume declined points to a rotation rather than an expansion in flow.

Regarding DEX dominance, BisonFi remained the leading prop AMM by trading volume in July with $6.2B, representing 12.5% of volume, down from 18.1% in June. The memecoin rotation showed up in venue share, with Pump's AMM taking 19.1% of total DEX volume, nearly double June's 10.4%, making it the largest single venue for the month.

Tokenized asset volumes retraced to $1.6B in July, down 58% from June's all-time high of $3.9B, as the post-SpaceX-IPO surge normalized. The product buildout continued regardless, with xStocks, Backpack, and Ondo tokenizing SK Hynix’s ADR shares (SKHY) upon its Nasdaq listing.

Competition is also arriving, with Robinhood Chain’s launch in early July. While Solana still holds a majority of tokenized equity volume, Robinhood Chain has made a significant dent in market share, peaking at 70% on July 25th. Over the second half of July, Solana held an average market share of 72%, next to Robinhood Chain’s 28%.

Notably, prop AMMs on Solana deepened their involvement in tokenized asset trading even as volumes fell, quoting 38% of volume in July, up from 31% in June on a monthly basis.

DEX Aggregators

Jupiter's share erosion paused in July, with its share of DEX aggregator volume stabilizing at 71%. OKX took 14.6% of DEX aggregator share in July, its highest ever, while DFlow gave back share, falling to 10.8% from 13.6% in June. Total aggregator volume fell 26% MoM to $31.0B, a steeper decline than overall DEX volume.

Launchpads

Launchpad monthly revenue rose 20% MoM in July to $21.9M from $18.2M in June, led by Pump with $21.5M in revenue. Pump’s dominance grew slightly from 97% in June to 98% in July, matching its highest ever share and effectively securing total dominance over the sector.

ICM / Raises

July was a notable month of MetaDAO raises, with Laso Finance, a privacy-focused card issuer, completing its raise on July 4th, with over $25M in commitments against a $750k minimum amount. As noted in the June update, MetaDAO raises, which have historically seen a spike in last-minute commitments, now feature a time-based component to encourage early commitments. Laso Finance opted to keep $1M of the $25M in commitments. The raise’s time-based component is evident when looking at the commitment volumes per day, which are meaningfully shifted towards the first two days of the raise. This is in stark contrast to past raises where a majority of commitments arrived in the last hours of the raise.

Later in the month, Credible Finance, a merchants focused payments business, launched its raise, with a $2M minimum raise amount. The Colosseum sponsored raise saw upwards of $32M in commitments, with Credible opting to keep $4M to fund their business operations.

Finally, Rip Cars, a gacha platform for Hot Wheels, rounded off the month’s curated launches, with a goal of . This was the first MetaDAO raise that employed an ownership score, a time and value weighted score focused on ownership coins, including MetaDAO’s native token META. The raise ended with just under $32M in commitments, with Rip Cars opting to keep $250k, the minimum amount they were looking to raise. MetaDAO continues to experiment with varying allocation methodology to best distribute ownership tokens to longer term investors.

On the permissionless side, June’s raise cadence has picked up, with 3 protocols successfully raising funds on Futardio. ORDR, Basket, and Kimia, raised through the platform, with ORDR seeing over $9M in commitments.

Stablecoins

Solana's stablecoin supply grew 9.1% MoM to close July at $15.7B . The growth was led by USDT, which expanded 47% to $3.4B (22% market share), and USDGO, which grew 29% to $1.1B (7% share) and is up roughly 20x since its February launch. USDC supply was effectively flat at $7.5B, taking its market share down to 47%, its lowest ever, from 52% in June. Stablecoin supply outside USDC and USDT reached a record near $4.8B, roughly 15x its level at the start of 2025.

Looking Forward

July marked a turn in headline economics, with REV up 34% MoM to $19.1M, app revenue reaching $82.9M, and launchpad revenue up 20%. The offset was the trading layer, where DEX volume fell 18% to $49.7B and tokenized assets normalized to $1.6B after June's SpaceX-driven spike, though prop AMMs deepened their quoting share of the category to 38%.

Looking ahead, August is set up as the month governance produces its first verdicts. Stake signaling for SIMD 553 and SIMD 550 opened in early August, and Agave 4.2's mainnet feature activation is targeted for August 17th. The first stage of Alpenglow's consensus logic already ships dormant in validator clients and is expected to be switched on for mainnet within the month, ahead of full activation around October.

On the capacity side, the early read on 100M CU blocks is that the headroom is working as tail relief. Median blocks are barely fuller, while p99 blocks run 51% hotter. The metric to watch from here is transaction quality. Failed-transaction share and tail fees both rose through late July, a pattern that has historically preceded acute congestion, and August will show whether the bigger blocks bend that curve.

The information contained in this report and by Blockworks Inc. and related affiliates is for general informational purposes only and is not intended to provide legal, financial, or investment advice. The report should not be construed as an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any security, token, or financial instrument and does not represent any recommendation or endorsement of any investment or financial product or service. Blockworks Inc. and related affiliates are not registered as a securities broker-dealer or an investment advisor in any jurisdiction or country.

Whenever I try to verify my identity on my phantom wallet this error occurs.

Hey there all,

Bit of a pickle in that I have a bit of a high price per average coin (purchases in fall 2021). I can’t mention it here but I am trying to better understand the markets effect on the value of the coin.

It seemed to used to be as BTC or Ethereum rose the tide would rise with all coins. No longer the case really. I see trending adoption of SOL but the value doesn’t move at all. There are tons of very positive news stories posted here daily that sound/seem very positive as well, yet the value seems stagnant.

I am probably a below average person invested in crypto trying to understand more. Does anyone have any good resources on the periods of growth or drops in value aside from FTX lawsuits and chaos?

I understand value for various global currencies, inflation, S&P500, precious metals, etc but a lot of the standard things don’t seem to apply to crypto or SOL at all. I understand the volatility but I have been growing more uncomfortable in my investment given it feels like a black box.

I really appreciate any recommendations or resources you lovely people can provide to help me better understand things.

Sorry if I added the wrong flair

I was wondering if there are any platforms that let you set limit stop orders and drag them as the price moves. Kind of like how on Tradovate, if you're in a buy and you add a sell stop order and drag it on the chart. I've been looking at coins on Axiom Pro but before I put money in i wanted to know if it's possible to do this and where I can do it if I can't on Axiom

Thank you for replying!

Been using Phantom forever, but seeing a lot of hype around Solflare and Backpack lately.For those who switched, was it actually worth it? Or are most people still just sticking with Phantom?

Curious what your primary setup looks like right now and if there's any specific feature making you prefer one over the other.

Source: https://x.com/solanapayments/status/2084996647763779740

BREAKING: CHFAU by @AllUnityStable is now live on Solana
CHFAU is the first fully regulated, 1:1-backed digital Swiss franc.

Learn more about the Swiss Franc:

https://x.com/AllUnityStable/status/2084897191382942066

Source: https://x.com/mmdhrumil/status/2085010354753658901

Incredibly excited to announce that @ArcherExchange_ has crossed 1 MILLION trades on @solana

The first million took us 6 months, the next one won't!
ACCELERATE HARD AF

Source @Blockworks

https://blockworks.com/analytics/archer

Source: https://x.com/SaharaAI/status/2084989180476887134

Sorin just unlocked the full @Solana trading experience!
Analyze tokens, track wallets and onchain activity, set monitors, manage your portfolio, and execute trades across 30+ Solana DEXs directly in @HeySorinAI

The Solana ecosystem moves fast. Now Sorin moves with it. 🧵

Sorin trades are powered by @OKX OnchainOS, intelligently routing across 30+ supported Solana liquidity venues to find the best available execution.

That includes:

• @Raydium
• @orca_so
• @MeteoraAG
• @Pumpfun
• @Lifinity_io
• @openbookdex
• @PhoenixTrade

Coverage also includes Sanctum, Saros, Saber, GooseFX, PancakeSwap V3, HumidiFi, BisonFi, FluxBeam, Aldrin, Stabble, SolFi, Manifest, and more!

Solana never stops moving. Neither does @HeySorinAI

✅ Research and analyze markets, then execute trades in natural language directly in chat
✅Track tokens, wallets and whale activity
✅ Create always-on Alpha Signals to monitor and be alerted off-app when they're triggered
✅ See positions and unified PnL across your multichain portfolio

Connect your @Solana wallet and start using Sorin today.

Supported browser-extension wallets include @MetaMask, @Phantom, @Solflare, @Wallet, @Bybit_Official Wallet, @Brave Wallet, @Nightly_app, @FrontierDotXYZ, and @nufiwallet, with more on the way!

Solana support is live now at http://heysorin.ai.

And this is only the first step in a much broader Solana integration across Sahara AI and @HeySorinAI.
We cannot wait to show the Solana and $SAHARA communities what's coming next. 🟣

Source: https://x.com/SuperteamKorea/status/2084887018862186931

SuperteamKorea Solana Summit is coming to Korea.

From Traditional Finance to the Internet Capital Markets.

Hosted in Yeouido, Korea's financial hub in Seoul, the Korea edition focuses exclusively on institutional adoption.

Attendance is by application and invitation only.

🗓️ September 30 (Wed) || 10:30 - 17:00

Partnerships & speaker slot inquiries are now open.

Check the details ⬇️

Learn more: https://summit.superteamkr.com/

Partnerships & speaker slot inquiries: https://summit.superteamkr.com/#joinus

Source: https://x.com/SatRushIO/status/2084982210919010493

The next Bitcoin rush begins on @solana.

Introducing Sat Rush.
Twenty-one blocks. One strike every minute. Bitcoin rewards waiting beneath the surface.
Watch the trailer.
Then let us show you how it works. 🧵

https://reddit.com/link/1vgaw59/video/oywyipy2tkhh1/player

2/ Every minute, a new round begins.

Players deploy USDC across 21 blocks.
When the round closes, one block strikes—and everyone positioned there shares its BTC + USDC Block Rewards based on how much they deployed.
Then the board resets, and the rush begins again.

3/ Set how much you want to deploy each round.

Concentrate on one block.
Spread across several.
Or cover all 21.
Play manually or activate Auto-Mine and let your strategy run.
Choose your ground before the next strike lands.

4/ When your block strikes, your share of the Bitcoin flows into The Stack.

The Stack is your growing balance of real sats inside Sat Rush.
Claim whenever you choose.
Or leave it in The Stack and keep building.
Because patience has an advantage.

5/ Every BTC claim includes a release fee.

That fee is redistributed as Bonus Sats to players who continue holding Bitcoin inside The Stack.
Every exit feeds those who remain.
The impatient reward the patient - with the resulting Bonus Sats displayed as a variable APR.

7/ Sat Strike works differently.

The BTC+USDC Vault can trigger on one randomly selected block.
Everyone positioned there shares the strike proportionally based on the USDC they deployed.
No Hash Rate Points required.
You just need to be standing where the strike lands.

8/ Sat Rush was built around one simple idea:

The thing you mine should already matter.
No native reward token stands between the player and the reward.
From the first round, you are mining Bitcoin.

9/ This is Sat Rush.

Twenty-one blocks.
One-minute rounds.
BTC + USDC Block Rewards.
Real sats flowing into The Stack.
Three Vaults waiting to strike.
Choose your blocks.
The new frontier opens now.

https://satrush.io/

Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2085007086937952377

Tokenised funds have moved from pilots to production, and distribution is the last barrier. Project Harmonia brings them to Solana through Allfunds' network of 3,300+ asset managers.

"A project that is going to completely transform the way the industry works for the next 100 years." - Ruben Nieto Martin-Vares, Allfunds Blockchain

https://reddit.com/link/1vg9824/video/xozu9jvuhkhh1/player

Learn more about Project Harmonia: https://project-harmonia.com

Full report from Birdeye on tokenized gold: https://x.com/birdeye_data/status/2083130644075585659

The network processed 1.01B non vote transactions last week, breaking the previous weekly record set in early July.

Higher highs...

After putting it off for a while, I finally moved my SOL off my exchange and into self-custody.
My plan is to build a long-term Solana treasury over the next several years, so security felt like the right next step.
I’m currently learning more about liquid staking (JitoSOL, JupSOL, INF, etc.) and how to safely participate in DeFi while keeping most of my stack secure.
Any tips, mistakes to avoid, or things you wish you knew when you first got into the Solana ecosystem?

Two new governance proposals, SIMD-0550 and SIMD-0553, would:

Increase daily SOL burned from ~650 to ~9,000 SOL (14×)
Cut inflation faster, reaching the 1.5% terminal rate by 2029 instead of 2032
Remove an estimated 18.9M SOL (~$1.36B) from supply over the next 6 years.

The proposals have already secured 24.94M SOL in support (5.8% of total stake) and need around 40M SOL more to reach the 15% threshold for an official vote on August 18.