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Solana is a high-throughput public blockchain known for low transaction costs and fast finality, widely used for DeFi, NFTs, stablecoins, and tokenized assets.
Solana validators approved SIMD-0326, the Alpenglow consensus swap, with 98.27% of participating stake in favor. According to Solana Compass, votes are 54% to 59% of mainnet transactions today. Under Alpenglow they stop being transactions.
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Solana Foundation's Accelerate China event in Shanghai was suspended on October 16 with officers at the venue, the first stop of a four-city tour. No source ties the halt to China's February 2026 crypto notice, and a similar Shenzhen disruption came months before it.
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Solana swaps TowerBFT for Alpenglow on Oct. 21, targeting finality in about 150 milliseconds. CoinDesk reported that vote transactions leave blocks, so counts may fall sharply with user activity unchanged.
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DeFi Development Corp. raised the dividend on its CHAD preferred from 13% to 14% effective Nov. 2, on a $10 stated amount. A full $300 million of new issuance would add $42 million to $52.5 million a year in dividends, depending on the sale price.
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Tokenized US stocks took 99.3% of non-US onchain trading volume in a 30-day period, a total of $14.4 billion, cryptobriefing.com reported. Against an estimated market cap of $3 billion to $4.8 billion, the whole market changed hands three to nearly five times.
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Ethereum fell 5.5% and XRP 5.1% in 24 hours against Bitcoin's 3.1% after September CPI rose 3.7%, Decrypt reported. Two analysts it quotes split on the cause: one points to the dollar and rate-hike odds, the other to profit-taking after a strong run.
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Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz has joined the NEAR Foundation Council, putting a Solana infrastructure founder on a rival network's oversight body. NEAR has promised to repay about $3.8 million lost to an October 1 deposit bug, Bankless reported.
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Solana plans to activate Alpenglow on mainnet around 15:00 UTC on October 21, cutting finality from about 12.8 seconds to a target near 150 milliseconds. Decrypt's Morning Minute says exchanges and payment processors have built around the old window of roughly 13 seconds.
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Samsung plans USDC transfers in Wallet for late October on 82 million compatible US Galaxy devices, a count its own footnote limits to compatible devices. Funding, fees and the identity screen decide how many phones ever send a dollar.
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Universal is extending its USDU stablecoin to Solana, backed 1:1 by dollar reserves with monthly attestations, the issuer says. Access stays with institutions, and the UAE registration behind the token excludes general mainland domestic payments.
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Solana fell 9.34% in seven days to about $107 before its October 21 Alpenglow upgrade, according to crypto.news. The one ETF flow it cites, $1.04 million on October 13, is about 0.0017% of market capitalization.
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SkyAI, a Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury company, sold about 1 million SOL to help fund a $201 million tender at $3 a share. Ember's estimates imply sales near $110 a coin, against a purchase cost Lookonchain puts at $194.
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Three knife-wielding intruders took about $800,000 from a UK trader, he says, including $720,000 from a Ledger hardware wallet. Police have not confirmed it; Chainalysis counts over $30 million in confirmed losses from such attacks in the first half of 2026.
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Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana ETFs shed $1.248B in the week to Oct 9, SoSoValue data reported by Cryptopolitan show. XRP funds drew $11.31M, under 1% of that, and relative to fund size the selling sits mostly in Ethereum.
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Anonymous leaker CyberLeek says it will release a full GTA 6 build if its meme coin reaches a $30 million market cap before the November 19 launch. The coin was worth about $2.87 million on October 11, Wolf's Gaming Blog reported, roughly a tenth of what the threat requires.
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Solana Foundation's plan to retire durable nonces gives a roughly six-month migration window, conditional on an audited mainnet replacement. Cold keys would keep approving while program-derived addresses control the affected accounts, CryptoSlate reported.
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OSL Group said on October 8, 2026 it holds custody of 2WA's USDGO Plus SP fund, now tokenized on Solana for Hong Kong professional investors. Its two published returns, 17.05% annualized over 30 days and 16.67% since inception, do not obviously share a basis.
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Solana takes over 91% of meme-token spot trading on major DEXs, according to Cryptopolitan. Robinhood's share is back to 5% after its August launchpad push, and Solana has led app revenue for ten straight quarters.
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Solana accounts for $3.32 billion of the $3.4 billion in weekly tokenized stock DEX volume, Crypto Briefing reported. Robinhood Chain's own early daily average of $29.7 million works out to about $208 million a week, a small slice of the total.
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Bitquery estimates Solana sandwich bots took $29.7 million gross over 11 months, before any costs. Jupiter trades allowing 20% to 50% slippage on Pump.fun venues were sandwiched 14 times as often as those under 3%.
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