Lightspeed Newsletter

Publicly-listed Janover announced last week that a group of ex-Kraken employees had acquired a majority stake in the company

Blueprint Finance has launched a rebranded and re-engineered protocol today on Solana mainnet

The stickiness could be the result of bear market conditions where users are swapping out of riskier tokens to hold stablecoins on Solana apps instead, a Blockworks Research analyst said

Mary Gooneratne, co-founder of Solana DeFi startup Loopscale, wants to give blockchain borrow-lend a facelift

A fresh market update from Blockworks Research highlights the ecosystem’s March pressure test

M^0’s first Solana user will be a platform offering banking-like services with stablecoins

The decentralized infrastructure project is spotlighting its verifiable access to Solana snapshots through a decentralized CDN

The cell provider is offloading data to XNET’s Wi-Fi network

Solana Foundation’s former head of strategy proposes increasing the disinflation rate

Solana may be in “recomposition” mode, as new protocols put usefulness ahead of mere virality

The non-profit’s launch and big-name hires aim to grow Solana’s footprint in Washington

The exchange has structural defenses and protocols to limit manipulations

With a friendlier regulatory outlook and the airdrop flow being stemmed, some are looking to how new native tokens can become valuable assets

Solana validators can reap benefits including payments, votes and community clout

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