Over the past week, the Solana ecosystem has made progress on multiple fronts, with capital support, protocol upgrades, and policy exploration jointly driving the expansion of its global influence.
First, MemeStrategy, a Hong Kong-listed company, announced the purchase of 2,440 SOLs, worth approximately HK$2.9 million , becoming the first Hong Kong-listed company to publicly invest in the Solana ecosystem, marking the recognition of Solana by traditional Asian finance.
Meanwhile, VanEck’s Solana spot ETF (code VSOL) was officially registered with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), marking a step closer to listing. It is reported that the market’s expectation for VSOL to be approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is as high as 91%, showing the strong interest of institutional investors in Solana .
On the technical level, Solana launched the LaserStream upgrade, which significantly improved the processing efficiency of blocks, transactions, and account data through ultra-fast and reliable gRPC streaming technology. This upgrade provides developers with more efficient tools, promotes the performance optimization of real-time applications, and further consolidates Solana's leading position in the field of high-performance blockchain.
At the community collaboration level, the Solana Policy Institute, together with leading projects such as Orca, submitted a securities tokenization proposal to the SEC, aiming to provide clear guidance for the regulatory compliance of the Solana ecosystem, reflecting the Solana ecosystem's forward-looking efforts in promoting the balance between blockchain technology and regulation.
We will sort out the major updates and noteworthy events of Solana ecosystem core projects/popular projects in the past week in the following sections.
DeFi
Raydium announced the launch of a $200,000+ $RAY reward program, offering 100,000 $RAY rewards per week to users who trade/create tokens on the LaunchLab SDK integration platform.
Kamino announced that xBTC is now live on Solana, launching its xBTC growth plan.
Marinade launches the Master Chef program to recognize and reward loyal community members.
Jupiter launches Radar powered by Dialect on Jupiter Mobile, providing notifications for airdrops, DLMM positions, and Jupiter/Jito voting.
stabble announced a partnership with Kima Network to provide the community with exclusive access to $KIMA rewards.
Kyber Network announced its integration with Orbiter Finance to enable fast and secure cross-chain swaps between major networks.
Streamflow launches active staking rewards to convert protocol revenue into staking rewards.
Stronghold announced that $strongSOL has integrated with Kamino Lend, supporting deposits and multiplier features to increase returns.
Unitas Labs announced that $USDU is now live on Orca.
Zenith completed an audit of Meteora’s Dynamic AMM v2 constant product liquidity pool program and found no major issues.
RWA
Usual announced the first wave of its “Loyalty Bonus,” redistributing 6.5 million USUALx from early redemption fees to eligible holders.
Ondo Finance announced the establishment of a global market alliance with multiple partners to standardize tokenized securities and on-chain capital markets.
Maple launches syrupUSDC on Exponent, enabling users to choose between fixed income or leveraged APY exposure.
AI/DeFAI/AI Agents
SendAI announced that Agent Kit now supports the OpenAI Agents SDK, supporting Solana agents with agent loops, handoffs, guardrails, and process tracking.
Nodepay launches an upgraded mobile app with features such as data revenue collection, mobile Signals participation, and insight into $NC rewards.
Hey Anon released Build 1.6, featuring Meme creation tools, Binance futures with 125x leverage, and Kraken DCA auto-buy function.
DePIN/Infra
Roam announced that the number of global nodes has exceeded 5 million.
The Graph announced that Olas is using subgraphs to provide reliable and consistent data support for its AI agents.
Wormhole announced that the funding program for the WIP-3 governance proposal has now been launched to accelerate the growth of the Wormhole ecosystem.
Solayer has launched a referral earning program for Emerald Card, offering referrers 20% of their Emerald points with no expiration or restrictions.
io.net announced that Total Network Earnings (TNE) is now live on-chain, with all transactions flowing through Solana, featuring real-time earnings tracking and $IO buyback capabilities.
Gradient launches Parallax, the first fully distributed inference and serving engine for large language models.
Pyth brings the UK’s most traded stocks on-chain.
Aethir announced a partnership with kluster.ai to showcase the advantages of decentralized infrastructure over traditional cloud solutions.
sns.sol has partnered with Nexy AI to offer rewards including .sol domain names and Nexy points for completing simple tasks.
DIA announced that $DIA mainnet staking is coming soon.
Ankr now provides high-performance RPC infrastructure support for DogeOS, optimized for uptime, latency, and scale.
Helium announces $50 million grant program for builders and deployers
Game/NFT/SocialFi
Magic Eden announced $5 million in ME for the community treasury to fund incentives, grants, ecosystem development, and product improvements.
Yield Guild Games launches the "My Points" page, designed to track YGG points and rewards.
STEPN GO launches GGUSD stablecoin backed by US Treasuries.
Potential Projects
Demether announced a partnership with M^0, which provides powerful building blocks.
Spicenet has partnered with Hemi to provide it with a fully functional portfolio.
Blockdaemon announced the launch of the Blockdaemon Earn Stack, an all-in-one institutional toolkit for compliant staking and DeFi rewards.
