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Today we’re bringing you some interesting data to recap Solana’s landmark day

Hunter Horsley says Solana is one of this cycle’s breakout successes that he thinks clients will want to access

Jack explored the various AI and memecoin projects that have sprung up over the past month

The two largest crypto exchanges respectively run the second- and sixth-largest Solana validators

Perena is built on the premise that as stablecoins proliferate, liquidity could fragment, and stablecoins aren’t useful if they aren’t liquid

Truth_terminal set off a wave of interest surrounding AI agents who interact with humans to do some kind of blockchain action

The app was conceived as a global equivalent to Venmo that uses the Solana network and Paxos’ USDP stablecoin

The outage affected Jito bundles which process multiple transactions in one go

Reflect is a delta-neutral currency protocol that lets tokens accrue yield without touching the banking system

Traders will be looking toward $260, roughly the all-time high the asset set in November 2021

Daily validator revenue has been in excess of $30 million every day since mid-October

As part of the deal, Arcium will take over Inpher’s core team and technology: Lightspeed exclusive

A new spot SOL ETF filing with the SEC comes a few months after VanEck kicked off the process with a filing of its own

Solana memecoins are collectively at an all-time high

VanEck will now offer regulated access to solana staking rewards on top of the price of SOL

The Solana network itself did not appear to experience degraded performance during the airdrop

Solana’s onchain metrics are at levels unreached, even in the peak of this summer’s memecoin mania

The proposal estimates the change could generate more than $22 million annually

Cube CEO Bartosz Lipinski agreed in a text that having a mobile app is likely to become table stakes for Solana projects

Stablecoins might be the killer non-bitcoin use case for crypto

Solana Boston attracted 250 attendees this past weeks, 90 of whom were students

How courts might respond to memecoin cases is still something of an open question

A bot endorsed a pump.fun memecoin with the ticker GOAT last week

Solana Foundation’s Austin Federa wrote on X that “​​Most of the L2-ish things on Solana are better thought of as Network Extensions”