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Velocity, the Solana perps exchange formerly known as Drift, opened a private beta with a 0.02% fee tier applied from a trader's first trade. The rebuild follows Drift's $285 million hack in April 2026, and traders can now earn yield on the same SOL or USDT balance that backs their positions.
Bench, built by the encrypted computation network Arcium, turns job hiring into a confidential prediction market on Solana, letting vouchers stake capital on candidates without competitors or the hiring company seeing where the money is going until the role is filled. Its devnet alpha drew 900 participants across 12 markets and $7.67 million in combined stake volume before the August 24, 2026 mainnet launch.
Solana ID is shutting down, with the Hub, API, and Display Network going offline September 30, 2026 and user data deleted by year-end. The team burned 73.78% of the total SOLID supply from its own treasury and already returned all 13.8 million staked SOLID across 1,239 wallets with zero failures.
Solana Mobile has launched the USDC Earn Vault in Seed Vault Wallet, giving Seeker owners a one-tap way to earn variable yield on USDC through Kamino's SOL/BTC lending market. It routes 95% of deposits into the lending pool and keeps 5% in reserve, with no lockup, no minimum deposit, and a flat 0.25% annual fee already netted out of the APY on your home tab.
Anchor v2.0.0-rc.1 is a complete rewrite of Solana's most widely used program framework, rebuilt on Pinocchio with binaries over 90% smaller and compute costs three to six times lower than v1. The release candidate ships coverage-guided fuzzing through Crucible, plus a profiler, a step debugger, and LCOV coverage as first-class CLI subcommands.
Rain has launched the Agentic Payments Alliance, a coalition of more than two dozen founding members including Visa, Mastercard, Solana, Circle, and Fiserv, to set shared standards for how AI agents make payments on a user's behalf. The group operates as a collective working group rather than a Rain-owned project, with early work covering agent identity, authorization, fraud detection, and regulatory advocacy ahead of a market McKinsey projects at $3 trillion to $5 trillion by 2030.
Solana Mobile has launched a Vulnerability Disclosure Policy and Bug Bounty Program that pays researchers up to $75,000 in SKR for critical vulnerabilities in Seed Vault, SKR's onchain programs, and Seeker Genesis Token infrastructure. Rewards are paid under a signed Award Agreement across four severity tiers, and a separate Security Grants program launched alongside it.
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.
