Solana Weekly News
Solana Weekly News is a podcast from SolanaFloor that covers the latest developments in the Solana ecosystem. Hosted by Jack Dunham, Finn Miller, and Thomas Bahamas, it provides analysis on DeFi, token launches, regulatory news, protocol updates, and market trends. Each episode delivers fact-based insights for builders, traders, and blockchain enthusiasts.
Episodes
Why Jito’s CEO Is Betting on Tokenized Stocks
We catch up with Lucas Bruder, CEO of JTX, about Solana's surging trading ecosystem. Then we jump into the top stories this week including Samsung expanding stablecoin payments across Galaxy devices, AI/Quantum FUD hits crypto markets, and major Solana DeFi players team up. Samsung taps Solana for cross-border payments, Orca and Loopscale merge into Formation, Securitize launches tokenized sto
Solana App Revenue At Bull Run Levels, Is $SOL Next?
Catch up on the latest Solana Weekly news to understand how shifting market trends are unfolding this week. Solana DeFi is charging back into full swing. Pump.fun reclaims market dominance, network TVL reaches post-Drift hack highs, $BP rips to new all-time highs as tokenized equity trading explodes, and a federal judge dismisses all charges against Hayden Davis and Ben Chow. Plus, Metaplex launch
Solana Finality Is Getting 85x Faster!?
Solana just had one of its biggest weeks of the year. Alpenglow, the network's largest-ever consensus upgrade, hit testnet targeting 150ms finality, SOL ripped past $120 to its highest level since January and outran Bitcoin, and another Layer 1 voted to shut down and migrate to Solana. Plus a reawakening NFT market and treasury companies buying even more SOL. Full rundown and links below 👇📌 So
VIDA CEO Lyle Pratt: You Can't Stop The Memes
Top Solana Stories Of The Week:VIDA Global CEO Lyle Pratt joins to unpack the community takeover (CTO) of his company's onchain equity, the "board seat" meme, and the exploding world of meme/stocks on Solana. Then the six stories that mattered this week: the Senate killing CLARITY, the SEC's surprise 5-year exemption for tokenized stocks, and Solana rallying back above $110 throu
ORE’s Plan to Become the Ultimate Store of Value | Hardhat Chad
Top Solana Stories Of The Week:ORE is Solana's fair-launch, proof-of-work store of value: mining generates protocol revenue that funds buybacks. With V4 now live, founder Hardhat Chad joins to explain what it means to build a "future-proof monetary reserve."GUEST: 📍 Hardhat Chad on ORE (Future-Proof Monetary Reserve)https://ore.com Stories📍 Stonk Flips Pump in Launchpad Revenue, Sets
MASSIVE Solana ETF Inflows: Is The Market Bottom Finally Here?
Top Solana Stories Of The Week:Wall Street is FOMOing into Solana ETFs. This week on Solana Weekly News, Jack and Thomas sit down with Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst James Seyffart to break down the trend reversal, the record $1.22B in cumulative Solana ETF inflows, the $40T debt milestone, and the White House crypto summit, plus what his new book with Eric Balchunas, "Both Sides of the C
$2.75 Billion In Shorts Just Got Wiped Out
Top Solana Stories Of The Week:$BTC just delivered a massive God Candle, ripping past $72K and wiping out $2.7B in short liquidations on Wednesday alone as market sentiment surges toward extreme greed. On Solana, epoch 1020 went live to lower slot times to 350ms, while $PUMP, tokenized equity RWAs, and Seeker DeFi products continue to smash all-time highs.Then we unpack the six biggest stories in
Why Is Saylor Selling While Solana Treasuries Buy?
Top Solana Stories Of The Week: A Solana NFT collection just landed a show on Amazon Prime Video. This week on Solana Weekly News, Jack and Thomas sit down with Andrew Pelekis (CEO, Claynosaurz & HEEBOO) and Nic Cabana (CCO & Co-Founder) to break down how a Solana mint became a global franchise, what HEEBOO is building as a fan-first entertainment launchpad, and how they are rewarding the
Why Solana Wants To Burn 14x More SOL
Weekly News: Solana has two improvements coming to the tokenomics of the SOL token. SIMD-0553 was written by Cavey and he and Sabs from Harmonic joined to tell us how this SIMD improves the incentives of the market and how it affects the everyday user. About SolanaFloor:SolanaFloor is Solana's #1 news and education source.🔗 Links 🔗 👉 Follow Jack Dunham: https://x.com/_JackDunham👉 Follow Thomas
CLARITY Failing Won't Kill Crypto: Jito's CLO
Top Solana Stories Of The Week: We launch the Regulatory Roundup with Rebecca Rettig, Chief Legal Officer of Jito, for breakdown of where the CLARITY Act actually stands in its final week before the August recess — the odds, the ethics fight, what happens if it fails, and what it all means for SOL holders, stakers, DEX traders and memecoin farmers.Finn Miller leads for Solana Weekly News: Solana&#
$2B Memecoin Volume, Melee's New Prediction Market, CLARITY Drama & more | Solana Weekly News
Top Stories of the week: Melee launches a new prediction market on Solana, JTX launches, drama with Clarity, and the trenches might just be back with over $2 billion dollars in memecoin volume. About SolanaFloor:SolanaFloor is Solana's #1 news and education source.🔗 Links 🔗 👉 Follow Jack Dunham: https://x.com/_JackDunham👉 Follow Thomas Bahamas: https://x.com/ThomasbahamasSolanaFloor👉 https://s
Certora CEO on DeFi Security Crisis, Jito's $JTO Burn Proposal & more | Solana Weekly News
Top Solana Stories Of The Week: Certora CEO and founder Mooly Sagiv joins to discuss Autoprover and Formal Verification. We unpack DeFi's brutal security year — the $580K DefiTuna and ~$18M Ostium oracle exploits, the AI-discovered Zcash Orchard bug that sat hidden for four years, and whether formal verification can actually secure the industry. Then the discuss weekly headlines with SolanaFlo
ETF Inflows Surge, $20M BONK Blunder, Robinhood Memecoin Boom & more | Solana Weekly News
Top Solana Stories Of The WeekBitcoin ETFs recorded $772M in single-day inflows and Solana ETFs are back in positive territory after a brutal June. Solana reclaimed #1 spot for network revenue for the first time in 4 months. Solana Mobile unveiled Seeker Summer with a full Q3 roadmap. BONK DAO lost $20 million in a governance blunder. Sanctum Mobile App crossed 9,000 users in its first week — offe
Ansem Revives the Trenches, Trump's $1B+ Crypto Payday, CLARITY Falls | Solana Weekly News
Top Solana Stories Of The WeekInsane week. Ansem's memecoin The Black Bull rips to $100M in 24 hours, reviving the trenches. World launches Solana-native prediction market powered by Chainlink right before the FIFA World Cup. Open Standard unveils $OUSD stablecoin backed by BlackRock, Google, Visa, Stripe, and 140+ partners, launching on Solana Day One. Grass farmers furious with Stage 2 USDC
Bitcoin's Worst Day in Months | $1.2B Liquidations, Is The Bottom In?
Backpack and Sunrise list tokenized Micron ($MU) on Solana for 24/7 trading right ahead of earnings — then we run Solana’s report card against Galaxy’s Q1 critique. Bitcoin drops to its lowest level since October 2024 as $1.2B is liquidated and fears mount over Strategy’s $STRC traders and investors are wondering if this is the bottom? Plus Arcium launches $ARX to a mixed community reaction, Solan
$4M Collector Crypt Airdrop, $212M Tokenized Equity ATH, DAT Drama | Solana Weekly News
Solana records its biggest tokenized equity day ever with $212M in daily volume, as Ondo lists 173 new stocks and ETFs and the SpaceX IPO aftermath continues. Forward Industries gets rejected for the third time in its rollup attempt on the Solana treasury sector, this time by Solana Company.Collector Crypt airdrops $4M following $4M weekly revenue ATH, now outpacing all competing TCG marketplaces
SpaceX's $2T IPO Hits Solana, DAT Wars Begin ft. Sunrise's Saeed Badreg | Solana Weekly News
It's IPO day. SpaceX lists on Nasdaq at $135 per share in the largest IPO in history, and tokenized $SPCX starts trading on Solana the very same day. We're joined by Saeed Badreg, CEO of Wormhole Labs and the team behind Sunrise, to break down how a real, redeemable SpaceX share ends up in your Solana wallet, why Solana captured 97.3% of all tokenized equity volume in May, and whether Anth
Is Crypto Dead? $5.5B Liquidated, Saylor Sells, Zcash Collapse & More | Solana Weekly News
Top Solana Stories Of The Week: A brutal week. $5.56B liquidated as Michael Saylor breaks his "never sell" promise. Zcash collapses 40% on a 4-year-old cryptographic vulnerability. Arthur Hayes calls the top on $HYPE and exits with $18M as retail copy traders eat the dump, but within the Solana ecosystem, Helius engineer formalizes SIMD-0550 to make $SOL potentially deflationary, Andrew Yang's Nob
Pump Goes Multichain, $1B Collector Crypt Volume, Solana vs. Hyperliquid | Solana Weekly News
This Week In the SolanFloor newsroom: Solana's Frontier Hackathon just became the largest crypto hackathon in history — 2,857 submissions across 108 countries. Pump.fun went multichain. SIMD-0525 could double validator voting costs and the Foundation wants to skip a governance vote. Solana is outpacing Hyperliquid in foreign token spot volume. Collector Crypt hit $1B in cumulative volume. And Sols
$1.8T SpaceX IPO Risk, Citadel $SOL Exposure Up 760%, Perps Wars & More | Solana Weekly News
This week in the SolanaFloor newsroom: Citadel increased its Solana exposure by 760% in Q1. $USDe supply on Solana surged 17,137% in a single week. SpaceX is targeting the biggest IPO in history and Solana DeFi users have been trading $SPACEX since September. The inflation debate is back with Mert calling out validators. Pump.fun drops $SOL pairings from May 21. And GMTrade crosses $40M TVL as the
CLARITY Act Advances, Solana Perps ATH, Alpenglow 100x & More | Solana Weekly News
This week in the SolanaFloor newsroom: Solana's perps sector is finally showing signs of life, with Phoenix and GMTrade hit all-time highs in daily volume. The CLARITY Act clears the Senate Banking Committee and heads to the floor with 71% odds of passing in 2026. Alpenglow logs a 100x finality gain in its first community cluster test. Plus: Bitwise comes onchain via Jupiter, Sanctum hits a re
$370M $PUMP Burn Backfires, $2.5B RWA ATH, Meta $USDC Payments On Solana | Solana Weekly News
Top Solana Stories Of The WeekApril 2026 was crypto's worst hacking month ever — $635M lost. But Solana kept building. This week: the Solana Foundation made history with its first-ever cross-chain capital deployment, Jito shipped infrastructure that could change how every trade on Solana gets executed, Meta chose Solana for creator payments, and the RWA ecosystem just hit a $2.5B all-time high
$290M KelpDAO Exploit, USDT Surges on Solana, Toly's 5 $SOL Challenge & More | Solana Weekly News
This week in the SolanaFloor newsroom: KelpDAO loses $290M to Lazarus Group as contagion hits Solana lending rates, Tether's USDT supply on Solana surges 16% in 7 days as Circle loses community trust. Plus, Polymarket and Kalshi enter the perps arena while Solana remains sidelined, Toly challenges hackers to crack his immutable app for a 5 SOL prize, and Singapore's 88 year old OCBC tokenizes a $5
Tether's $150M Drift Rescue, Solana's $1.1T ATH, SEC DeFi Green Light & More | Solana Weekly News
This week in the SolanaFloor newsroom: Tether steps up with a $150M Drift recovery plan as Circle faces fierce backlash for refusing to freeze stolen funds, the SEC delivers a landmark ruling giving DeFi apps the green light on broker-dealer registration, Solana records $1.1T in Q1 economic activity, a new all-time high. Jump Crypto's research shows Solana PropAMMs outperform CEXes in 99.3% of
Foundation's Response to $285M Hack, $544M Pre-IPO Boom & Token Unlocks To Watch┃Solana Weekly News
This week in the SolanaFloor newsroom, Finn and Thomas Bahamas break down the Solana Foundation's sweeping new security standard launched in the wake of the $285M Drift exploit, the explosive growth of tokenized pre-IPO trading on Solana crossing $544M in volume, and why trading terminal volume has collapsed to its lowest point since September 2023.We also cover Titan Exchange's bold claim of 4x B
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