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Solana Foundation Launches Pay.sh in Collaboration with Google Cloud
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Solana Foundation Launches Solana Developer Platform
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The Solana Foundation Delegation Program
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Payment Channels: 1 Million Payments Per Second
Payment channels support 1 million payments per second by authorizing agent spending once, metering off-chain, and settling once on Solana.
How to Reclaim Excess SOL After Rent Reduction
Rent on Solana has been Reduced. Every Account Is Now Over-Funded. Here's How to Reclaim Excess SOL.
The Token Supercycle: Everything of Value is Becoming Programmable
More than $4.7 trillion in stablecoins moved across Solana in the past year as tokenized markets expand access to ownership and finance.
Webinar Recap: Cross-Border Payments in Latin America
Jorge Borges, Head of Latin America at Fireblocks, and Antonio Neto of the Solana Foundation discussed how firms across LATAM are putting stablecoin payments into production.
The Token Supercycle Is Here: Solana Brings Breakpoint 2026 to London
Breakpoint comes to London November 15–17, bringing 8,000+ attendees and leaders from capital markets, payments, technology and policy.
Lowering Slot Time and Validator Economics
Solana will reduce its slot times from 400ms to 200ms. This change will make the protocol more competitive in terms of latency. Here we explore some possible implication on validators economic.
v1 Transactions and the ALT Trade-off
Solana is introducing a new transaction format (v1) alongside an increase of the maximum transaction size from 1232 bytes to 4096 bytes. The v1 format aims to unlock new possibilities on-chain. This is done trading-off Account Lookup Tables (ALT) usage. In this research we explore in details the current usage of ALTs, alongside implications of removing them.
How Meow Built Agentic Banking and Agent Payment Rails, with Brandon Arvanaghi
Meow lets AI agents form a company and apply for a business bank account in one prompt, with payment rails spanning ACH, USDC, SOL, and more.
Why Asia Is Ahead on Stablecoins, According to Reap's Daren Guo
Reap moves roughly $6B a year in stablecoin card volume after building cross-border payments infrastructure from Asia.
MoneyGram Ramps launches on Solana
MoneyGram Ramps gives Solana builders one API for cash deposits in 25+ countries and withdrawals in 170+ countries and territories.
Webinar Recap: Giving AI agents a native way to pay with x402
X402 has processed roughly 200M transactions and $50B in volume, giving AI agents a stablecoin-native way to pay for web resources.
Solana Ecosystem Roundup: July 2026
Tokenized equities expanded, real-world assets hit $3.73B, payments reached 330,000+ merchants, and block capacity increased 66% in a milestone month.
Breakpoint 2026: The Token Supercycle
The last cycle was built on software and cheap money. This one is built from steel, silicon, and energy; and the tokens moving the capital behind it. Speaker applications are now live for Breakpoint 2026: