Lightspeed Newsletter

Sol’s price drop was partially triggered by one of the year’s more chaotic memecoin events

Over the past 24 hours, PumpSwap’s largest liquidity pool by volume contains tokens with the tickers DOGEMOON and ballscoin

The real strength of tailored AMMs might lie in their capacity to cultivate deeper loyalty and engagement within niche communities

“Every asset manager and bank doing ‘crypto’ is earning insane fees for putting things ‘onchain,'” read a slide from Meltem Demiror’s DAS talk

Titan Exchange CEO Chris Chung says Titan bests Solana’s incumbent DEX aggregator Jupiter on price 80% of the time

Volatility Shares will bring two Solana futures ETFs to market tomorrow

The platform, called LaunchLab, comes less than a month after news broke that pump.fun was developing an AMM of its own

Yesterday marked the five-year anniversary of Solana’s genesis block

The encoded timekeeping system improves proof-of-stake, allowing the chain to quickly validate transactions

New model aims to resolve trading inefficiencies with a single execution layer and market maker changes

Zeta Markets has shipped testnet for Bullet, a low-latency “network extension,” the team told Lightspeed exclusively

“Micro-advancements” take center stage in plans by Anza

The company has now acquired three Solana validator operators since its September pivot into Solana

The Solana world has worked itself into a frenzy over SIMD-0228

Liam Heeger was a core Solana Firedancer developer. Now, he’s building his own L1.

On the news that SOL would be part of Trump’s upcoming strategic reserve, SOL quickly surged before seeing an equally swift retracement

In an X Spaces debate, Lily Liu urged Solana to take a more holistic approach to inflation

The moves that embodied Solana’s transition to “the people’s chain”

Base’s new FlashBlocks feature sparks a debate about scaling metrics

“High value accounts” need purpose-built wallet solutions because sophisticated hackers can “potentially compromise any frontend,” Squads CEO told Blockworks

If hacks were real bear catalysts, why did the market shrug them off?

Pump.fun’s aspirations to create its own AMM has been spinning around the Solana rumor mill for some time

Underlying Solana’s rapid 2021 ascent was its precarious dependency on Alameda Research and FTX

The new layer-1 will only use the Firedancer client and will implement multi-local consensus