Tech, capital, and policy converged in Miami to showcase the future of Solana and America at the biggest Accelerate ever. Accelerate USA brought three thousand people and the energy of the Solana community to Miami, alongside Consensus 2026.

Solana brought the heat: Four sitting US Senators, the House Majority Whip, the CEO of Tether USA, and heads of payments and digital assets from SoFi, Lead Bank, DTCC, Anchorage, Western Union, Bitwise, and Kraken. A dream list of speakers from finance, policy, and AI.

Vibhu Norby, Solana Foundation's Chief Product Officer, set the tone before the first announcement landed: "Last year we were in the progress stage, and today we're in the execution phase. And Solana's at the center of that conversation."

What followed was more than twenty announcements across three focused days. The thread that ran through all of it: traditional finance, payments, consumer products, and AI all picked Solana as the chain to build on.

This is what that looked like.

May 4: Consumer Apps Take the Floor

Consumer Day, presented by Superteam USA, opened the week with builders shipping products that already touch real users.

Alchemy's Romit Mirchi laid out the user growth: "Just four years ago there was less than half a million weekly active wallets on Solana. That number has grown to over two million weekly active wallets." DFlow's Dan Jablonski followed with the volume side, ahead of the MoonPay acquisition that would land twenty-four hours later: "Over 100x growth in 2026. DFlow has over 500+ integrations across Solana and we've done over $50B cumulative retail trading volume."

A few highlights from the two dozen builders who shared their insights on what it's like to build on Solana:

• ComicBook launched a digital vending machine in partnership with Collector Crypt, bringing Solana-powered collectibles to their 40M+ monthly users.
• Reap showcased an onchain operations stack delivering cashback rewards on everyday business expenses
• Altitude previewed their new business stablecoin cards
• Tapestry's Zumi reported 160,000 users and 52x growth in 90 days
• Magicblock confirmed the Seeker thesis: "The story Toly tells that you can get your first 1000 users from Seeker is actually true. The average spend for these users is insane."

The throughline was clear: consumer products on Solana have moved from prototype into shipped product, with users, volume, and revenue to show for it.

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May 5: The Accelerate Miami Main Stage

Policy: The CLARITY Act and the American Financial System

The US passed the Genius Act last year. That law set the framework for stablecoin issuance, custody, and reserves. The CLARITY Act is the companion piece, defining which digital assets fall under which regulator. Together they give US institutions the legal certainty they need to issue, hold, and settle in stablecoins at scale.

Senator Bernie Moreno opened the policy conversation with the line that defined the week. "Stablecoins are now the law of the land, and we're seeing huge adoption. And now we'll have the Clarity Act happen, which allows massive innovation to happen."

"The full potential of AI isn't possible without digital assets and without crypto." – Senator Bernie Moreno

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand made the structural case: under CLARITY, most digital assets would fall under CFTC oversight rather than the SEC. CFTC regulation treats most tokens as commodities rather than securities, with lighter disclosure requirements and clearer rules for trading and custody. "This framework is going to create the best of both worlds," she said. "It's going to create some consumer protections through disclosures, but the simplicity of having your regulator be the CFTC. I think it's going to be formidable."

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer captured the cross-aisle frame: "The beauty of the digital asset space is that money ain't Republican and it ain't Democrat. Money is just all of us."

Amira Valliani, Head of Payments Growth at the Solana Foundation, anchored the moment: "This is really a conversation about the future of the American financial system. And it just happens that a lot of it's built on Solana."

The Big Announcements

Western Union's USDPT went live on Solana. A federally regulated, dollar-backed stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital, integrated directly into Western Union's infrastructure across 200+ countries. The 175-year-old remittance giant now settles cross-border flows in stablecoins on Solana.

State Street launched SWEEP, its tokenized onchain liquidity fund, in partnership with Galaxy. State Street custodies $50 trillion in assets, and validated Solana as institutional-grade infrastructure with a live, regulated product.

Anchorage Digital and J.P. Morgan Asset Management announced cashless stablecoin reserves on Solana. "Cashless reserves" means the assets backing a stablecoin sit fully onchain in tokenized money market funds, rather than in conventional bank deposits or T-bills, with custody handled by Anchorage and the underlying instruments managed by JPM.

SoFi announced SoFiUSD, their upcoming stablecoin native to Solana. A nationally chartered US bank with 10M+ customers is bringing stablecoin issuance into the regulated banking perimeter on Solana. Ben Reynolds, SoFi's Head of Big Business Banking, was direct on the reasoning: "Solana is the right chain to use for payments because of the cost, the settlement speed, and ultimately the throughput."

MoonPay acquired DFlow. CEO Ivan Soto-Wright took the stage to confirm the deal, joined by DFlow's Nitesh Nath. DFlow's DEX aggregator and prediction markets API has powered tens of billions in transacted volume. On why MoonPay chose Solana, Soto-Wright was direct: "Solana is a goated community, and has the best builders."

Tether USA CEO Bo Hines confirmed the company's new US product is being built with Solana as a core rail: "We're big fans of the Solana ecosystem. I think that what's been created here is extremely special."

Also Announced from Accelerate Miami

• Securitize partnered with Jump and Jupiter to launch fully onchain, regulated trading for tokenized equities on Solana
• Republic launched tokenized Animoca Brands equity on Solana
• Jito's Lucas Bruder (buffalu) unveiled jtx_trade, a self-custodial trading platform with CEX-grade execution
• Privy activated Digital Asset Accounts on Solana for developers building fintech, trading, and consumer apps
• TAO's native token went live on Solana via Sunrise, opening Bittensor's AI subnet economy to Solana liquidity

Tech: Why the Network Can Absorb All of This

Anatoly "Toly" Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs, set the technical thesis in the opening keynote. "We have an advantage because we can move faster, we're global. A lot of these companies that have built their businesses around regulatory captured markets are stuck in the way that they do things. So we have an opportunity to disrupt them."

Two technical updates were announced to raise the ceiling on what Solana can handle.

• Firedancer 1.0, the second independent Solana validator client built by Jump, is now available on mainnet.
• Alpenglow, the next consensus protocol upgrade, could ship as early as next quarter

In the words of Toly: "Cheaper, faster transactions are the most important thing." The POD was standing room only as the brightest technical minds on Solana debated MCP, Quasar, post-quantum readiness and more.

Culture: The Magic That Holds the Room Together

Raposa Coffee, born on Solana, became the official coffee partner of the Miami Heat and Miami Marlins, announced a flagship shop, and relocated its headquarters to Miami. A coffee brand that started as a side project for a Solana community member is now pouring espresso at NBA and MLB games. Luis Suarez took the stage to talk about how tokenization with Trendex is helping him build closer relationships with his fans.

Outside the stage area, the floor ran at the same intensity. Solflare turned its booth into a GTA-inspired set. BAXUS opened a real-world vending machine spinning bottles for attendees. ComicBook rolled out its own digital vending machine on the floor for its forty million users. Builder lounges, demo stations, and partner booths kept the floor moving from morning sessions through evening side events around the city. 

Evan Kuhn of DeLorean captured it well: "We have found our home here with Solana."

Watch the Accelerate main stage

May 6: AI Day and the Agentic Commerce Stack

Accelerate AI was a showcase of Solana as the infrastructure for agentic payments.

During Accelerate Miami, the Solana Foundation introduced Pay.sh, built in collaboration with Google Cloud. To make it concrete, an AI agent looking up flight prices can pay $0.001 per API call to a flight data provider, automatically, without anyone signing up for an account or pulling out a credit card. Pay.sh handles the discovery (finding paid APIs), the access (authentication), and the payment (stablecoin settlement on Solana), all over open standards. Until now, agentic workflows hit a wall the moment they needed to pay for data or compute. Pay.sh removes that wall.

Attendees of Accelerate AI saw an in-depth demo of pay.sh, as well as the latest from VeryAI, Corbits, Bitrobot, Tektonic Company, Google Cloud Web3, Poof, Zerion, Dexter, ATXP, and Merit Systems. MoonPay confirmed it is the official onramp of Pay.sh, so any agent or developer can fund their stablecoin balance from fiat in one flow. Phantom announced that $CASH is now available in the Pay.sh marketplace, integrating its consumer wallet directly into the agentic stack. Metaplex put up a number that drew the room's attention: forty-seven million x402 transactions have already been processed on Solana.

The frontier of American innovation is taking shape at the intersection of crypto and AI, and the best builders are creating that future on Solana.

Watch the full programming from Accelerate AI

What the Week Made Clear

Three signals carried through the week. The first is that the regulatory path is now real enough for traditional finance to commit. The CLARITY Act and the Genius Act give institutional players the framework they have been waiting for.

The second is that Solana is the chain those institutions chose. Reynolds at SoFi, Reses at Lead Bank, Chakar at DTCC, Hines at Tether, and Horsley at Bitwise each gave a version of the same answer when asked why: cost, settlement speed, scalability, and a community of users and capital already in place.

The third is that the agentic commerce layer is now running in production. Solana is the chain of choice for humans and agents alike.

What's Next

Breakpoint 2026 is coming to London on November 15-17. It is the first time Solana's flagship event has landed in one of the world's great financial capitals. Hacker House returns alongside it for a twelve-day builder residency leading up to the conference. Early bird tickets are live until May 31.

Accelerate USA was for institutions. Breakpoint London will be a celebration of the global community that builds on Solana every day. The work continues in between.

For now, the receipts are in Miami.

Watch Accelerate USA on YouTube: