$370M $PUMP Burn Backfires, $2.5B RWA ATH, Meta $USDC Payments On Solana | Solana Weekly News
Top Solana Stories Of The WeekApril 2026 was crypto's worst hacking month ever — $635M lost. But Solana kept building. This week: the Solana Foundation made history with its first-ever cross-chain capital deployment, Jito shipped infrastructure that could change how every trade on Solana gets executed, Meta chose Solana for creator payments, and the RWA ecosystem just hit a $2.5B all-time high.Jack Dunham, Finn Miller, and Thomas Bahamas break it all down.▶ Follow Solana Weekly News so you never miss the week in Solana.📬 Get the stories first — subscribe to the SolanaFloor newsletter: https://solanafloor.com/newsletters🔗 Follow along:SolanaFloor → https://x.com/solanafloorJack → https://x.com/_JackDunhamFinn → https://x.com/solace_fmThomas → https://x.com/thomasbahamasFull stories covered in this episode:📍 Solana Foundation Joins Fight to Save DeFi, Lends $USDT on AAVEhttps://solanafloor.com/news/solana-foundation-joins-fight-to-save-defi-lends-usdt-on-aave📍 Solana Mobile Names Monolith Hackathon Winners, Distributes $125K in Prizeshttps://solanafloor.com/news/solana-mobile-names-winners-monolith-hackathon-distributes-125k📍 Jito Launches BAM Maker Plugin, Further Boosting Prop AMM Executionhttps://solanafloor.com/news/jito-launches-bam-maker-plugin-further-boosting-prop-amm-execution📍 $370M $PUMP Burn Backfireshttps://solanafloor.com/news/370-m-pump-burn-backfires-as-users-mourn-missing-airdrop-📍 Meta Rolls Out $USDC Payouts for Creators on Solanahttps://solanafloor.com/news/meta-rolls-out-usdc-payouts-for-creators-solana📍 Solana RWA Ecosystem Hits $2.5 Billion ATH Across Almost 200,000 Holdershttps://solanafloor.com/news/solana-rwa-ecosystem-hits-2-5-billion-ath
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