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Solana Foundation is running Solana School's Fall Class from August 31 through October 16, a free, seven-week, cohort-based program that ships working code every session, three times a week. Unlike the summer cohort, which required a college email, the Fall Class is open to any developer who applies, ending in a Demo Day pitched as practice for Colosseum.
Nexus Mutual has extended DeFi coverage to Solana for the first time, with live listings for Kamino, Raydium, Orca, and Jupiter spanning roughly 90% of Solana lending deposits. The mutual has paid 100% of valid claims across more than $7 billion in cover written over seven years, all of it previously confined to Ethereum and other EVM chains.
Coinbase Developer Platform has brought its SQL API to Solana in beta, letting developers query SPL Token and Token-2022 activity with plain SQL instead of running an indexer. Two datasets ship at launch, with 500ms freshness to the tip of the chain and 1,000 free queries a month.
Kalshi's live order book is now streaming on DoubleZero Edge, making it the first prediction market to distribute market data over a multicast network and the second venue on Edge after Solana. Four feeds went live at launch, covering full L2 depth and top of book across every sports event contract and crypto perps market Kalshi lists, and Kalshi is waiving its revenue share for the first year.
MoneyGram Ramps is now live on Solana, giving developers one API for moving USDC in and out of cash across more than 170 countries and territories. Nearly 500,000 MoneyGram retail locations back the network, and Rift is the first Solana wallet to ship the integration.
A routing fault at Teraswitch's Miami site knocked 90 Solana validators and about 125 million SOL offline for 33 minutes, pushing delinquent stake to 28.83% against the 33.34% level where the network stops finalizing blocks. Marinade Finance's incident analysis found more than a quarter of all staked SOL concentrated on a single ASN, with 94% of it going dark at once.
Jupiter has launched Lend v2, letting deposits and borrowed assets earn DEX trading fees on top of their usual yield through two new features, Smart Collateral and Smart Debt. The upgrade runs on Fluid's shared liquidity layer and is designed to put Jupiter Lend's $1.9 billion in deposits to work as active liquidity instead of a static backstop.
Flash Trade is winding down unless it finds a buyer, ending a three-year run as one of the few fully bootstrapped perpetuals exchanges on Solana. Co-founder Anas Khader took full responsibility and gave three reasons for the closure, none of which was running out of money, and any acquisition proceeds go to FAF holders pro rata with the team taking nothing.
The Solana Foundation open-sourced Tokens, the codebase behind tokens.xyz, publishing the website, the Assets API, and the internal tooling that tiers each token mint under an MIT license. Tokens covers roughly 300 canonical assets and maps every mint that represents them, so a single Bitcoin page carries cbBTC, WBTC, xBTC, and zenBTC ranked on trading activity rather than pool size alone.
Rarible launched its Solana NFT marketplace on August 6, 2026, opening with Claynosaurz as its only collection, then added Mad Lads and Dead King Society Nobles on August 10. The launch shipped six days after a RARI DAO vote that had targeted a four-week build.
Titan has integrated Hylo V2 into its Argos router, giving Titan users access to the full Hylo product suite at router-selected prices. Trades hit Hylo's mint and redeem functions directly against the protocol's multi-collateral architecture, covering hyUSD, eHYUSD, xSOL, xBTC, and any future xAssets.
0x opened its Swap API on Solana to all developers in beta, giving apps and wallets one endpoint that returns DEX quotes and ready-to-sign swap instructions. Solana is the first non-EVM network 0x has supported, and Kamino and Titan were both routing trades through it during the closed beta.
