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The Solana Foundation has released @solana/web3.js v3, which keeps the Connection, PublicKey, Keypair, and Transaction classes from v1 and runs them on Solana Kit. It becomes the default npm install on October 19, 2026, and most of the migration is adding await to signing, serializing, and PDA calls.
Samsung is adding USDC transfers on Solana to Samsung Wallet, letting US users send money abroad from 82 million Galaxy devices starting the last week of October 2026. Transfers can land in bank accounts in more than 60 countries or in external crypto wallets, with custody handled by Bastion and Coinbase Prime.
Orca and Loopscale are merging into a single company called Formation, which pairs Orca's liquidity with Loopscale's credit and vaults so an issuer can launch a tokenized asset on Solana with trading and lending live from day one. Formation says DAWN Technologies launched a telecom debt product on the combined stack in under 30 days and took in more than $10 million in deposits in 24 hours.
The Solana Foundation has released Solana DvP, an MIT-licensed escrow program for delivery-versus-payment that settles both legs of a trade in one transaction, with input from J.P. Morgan on institutional settlement practices. Each party funds its leg with a standard token transfer, and a settlement authority named in the trade is the only signer that can settle it.
MetaDAO has renamed Futardio to Backable, its permissionless fundraising platform on Solana, and cut the cost of listing a raise from 0.5 SOL to $15. The platform carries over $44.2 million in commitments from 2,407 backers, and a new Ownership Score now decides who gets tokens when a raise is oversubscribed.
The Agentic Finance Report, co-authored by TensorX, AMINA Bank, the Solana Foundation, APEX:E3, and the Cardano Foundation, names Solana as the execution layer for AI agents managing institutional capital. Its Solana chapter cites a payment-channel benchmark of more than 1 million payments a second, and the report proposes enforcing compliance inside the token with Token-2022 transfer hooks.
Colosseum Copilot v2 lets your coding agent review your own hackathon project, track which categories are growing across hackathons, and pull optional paid data through Frames. Old v1 access tokens stop working on October 28, 2026, so existing users need to update the skill and sign in through the browser.
Decrypt is turning itself into The Information Exchange, a Solana-based network that brings together news, data, market prices, probabilities, and ways to trade on them. Myriad supplies the market infrastructure behind more than $600 million in prediction market volume, and the MYR token coordinates the network.
A three-year report counts 28 million Solana sandwich attacks on protected order flow, worth $345 million in net bot profit. Each fix, from closing Jito's mempool to delisting validators, removed one leak while the strongest exposure signal shifted to trading apps like Axiom.
Metaplex has launched MPL-3643, a permissioned token standard that lets issuers build investor eligibility, jurisdiction limits, lockups, and holder caps directly into real-world assets on Solana. It checks compliance when an account is thawed rather than on every transfer, so most transfers between approved wallets are ordinary Token-2022 transfers.
Titan has opened its Swap API to the public through a new Developers Portal, so any Solana developer can create an API key and request routes from the same engine behind Titan's own swaps. A free Sandbox plan covers testing, and the first 50 teams on a paid plan get 25% off for a year through Titan Genesis 50.
NFW has launched a social NFT marketplace on Solana that posts every trade to a public feed under the trader's name and pulls listings from across the chain into one order book per collection. Buyers pay a 1% NFW fee on top of each purchase, and trades settle wallet to wallet without NFW ever holding the NFT or the SOL.
