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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.
Kamino opened Institutional Commodity Yield, a USDC vault targeting 7% to 8% APY by financing short-term commodity trades instead of lending against crypto collateral. It launched with a $25 million deposit cap, routes capital through a fund supervised by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, and publishes the full loan portfolio in the vault UI.
Credible Finance closed the first ICO ever routed through the Colosseum STAMP, drawing $32,775,016 in commitments from 790 contributors before the team accepted roughly $4 million and refunded the rest. The STAMP replaces the usual SAFE plus token warrant with a single instrument that makes the token the only economic claim, handing the treasury and IP to MetaDAO's decision markets at launch.
MoonPay has launched PayBox, a non-custodial payment vault that lets Claude and ChatGPT users trade on Solana and pay merchants through plain conversation. Wallet keys are split across hardware-isolated enclaves using MPC from Sodot, so the agent can propose a transaction but a passkey is still required to sign it.
Ramp has opened Stablecoin Accounts and stablecoin Bill Pay to all 70,000+ of its business customers, with Solana among the seven supported networks. Businesses can hold USDC or USDT, pay vendors from that balance, and settle in seconds rather than the three to five days a SWIFT wire takes.
Raydium has launched Permissioned AMMs, a new pool type that lets issuers of KYC-gated and regulated assets trade on Solana's deepest liquidity without building a venue of their own. Superstate, an SEC-registered transfer agent, is the first service partner to integrate.
