The Solana Foundation shipped payment channels, a primitive that lets an AI agent authorize a spending cap once and settle the real amount in a single onchain transaction. In testing, 100,000 wallets pushed more than 1 million payments per second through a payment channel proxy at an estimated $0.000000000776 per payment, and Alibaba Cloud is live with it at launch.
Colosseum has opened registration for the Crypto World's Fair, an online hackathon running September 14 to October 12, 2026 that is open to builders on every blockchain rather than Solana alone. Every submission is eligible for prizes regardless of chain, though the $250,000 pre-seed check and the accelerator seat behind it still go only to Solana teams.
Solana Labs named six teams to Cohort 5 of the Solana Incubator, a three-month program that puts founders in New York City building alongside the Solana Labs team. The group runs from robot fleets and agentic finance to opinion markets and verifiable trade settlement, and applications for the next cohort open in October.
OpenSea has relaunched Solana NFT trading on its OS2 marketplace, four years after its original 2022 beta stalled out with only 165 collections. The comeback opens with five collections, including Claynosaurz and Mad Lads, and follows Rarible's own Solana NFT relaunch three weeks earlier.
