Solana Foundation

xStocks’ 55+ tokenized U.S. equities are now live and available for trading on Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, powered by the Solana blockchain 🪙📈 Tokenizing real-world assets on public blockchains is happening at scale.  Kraken’s xStocks launch brings blue-chip names like Tesla and NVIDIA onchain, adding a new asset class to the same rails already powering stablecoins, tokenized treasuries, and onchain yields. This is a major step forward in making global markets more accessible, programmable, and open. Users can benefit from: - 24/5 trading hours - Fractional share ownership from ~$1 - Near-instant, onchain settlement - Full self-custody and composability with DeFi (coming soon) xStocks will soon be available on additional platforms including Bybit, Byreal, Kamino Finance, Raydium Protocol, and Jupiter Exchange. From stablecoins to treasuries — and now equities — Solana is evolving into a highly liquid unified ledger for internet capital markets. More on xStocks from the Backed Finance AG team at the link in the comments below. 

Wall Street grade infrastructure — for everyone 📈 Leaders across the Solana ecosystem have unveiled a two-year technical roadmap to bring Solana markets to parity with the speed, precision, and reliability of the world’s best centralized trading systems. The focus is on improving market microstructure for internet scale capital markets — the foundation for deep liquidity, tighter spreads, millisecond-level execution control, and faster, more credible price discovery. Key milestones include... • Now: Jito Labs Block Assembly Marketplace (BAM) and Anza's Agave 2.3 cut settlement times and add privacy to execution. •  Mid-2025: DoubleZero Foundation boosts bandwidth 10× and reduces latency by up to 100ms. • Early 2026: Solana's new Alpenglow consensus proposed by Anza research delivers ~150ms finality. • 2026+: Asynchronous execution cuts latency further. • 2027: Multiple concurrent leaders and protocol-level ACE for real-time, low-slippage trading. Read the full roadmap at the link in the comments below.

Exodus (NYSE: EXOD), a leading self-custodial crypto platform and the first US public company to tokenize its common stock, is expanding its tokenized shares to new blockchains via Superstate’s 🔔 Opening Bell platform. This expansion brings Exodus’ tokenized shares to Solana and later Ethereum, complementing their existing Algorand-based stock tokens. Powered by Opening Bell’s direct issuance model, it allows Exodus to scale on-chain equity with full regulatory compliance and issuer control. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gfpuAwrp Through Opening Bell, Exodus’ tokenized shares will soon begin trading in supported DeFi applications, marking the next step in expanding compliant access to their on-chain public equity. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/eXGhcfZp #superstateopeningbell #tokenizedequity #realworldassettokenization #fintech #financeinnovation Solana Foundation #solana #ethereum #algorand #openingbell #onchainpublicequities

Build physically, distribute digitally 🌐 The new Solana Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (DePIN) Playbook distills the lessons from some of the largest DePINs — like Helium, Render Network Foundation, and GEODNET — into a quick start guide you can apply to your own business: • Choose a chain built for scale: 1600+ TPS, sub‑cent fees, one global state. • Cost-effective and efficient rewards distribution: Merkle, ZK compression, claim‑based distribution. • Prove real‑world work without flooding the chain: verifiable proofs, off‑chain storage, oracles. • Govern for growth: community control without decision paralysis. If you’re serious about deploying and operating physical infrastructure at global scale, start here. Get started with the Solana DePIN guide: https://lnkd.in/g9ircYVT 

What do Solana, Formula 1, and Abu Dhabi Finance Week have in common? 🇦🇪 They’re all converging in one city this December — and if you care about where capital markets are heading, you’ll want to be there. Join us at Solana’s global flagship event from December 11–13, bringing together the builders, investors, and institutions shaping the future of capital markets. Breakpoint 2025 centers on two themes: Revenue and Returns. Expect: 🟣 Product keynotes, live demos, and fiery debates 🟣 Fireside chats between top operators, founders, and investors 🟣 Sandbox conversations with crypto regulators 🟣 Global teams bringing capital markets and financial products onchain 🟣 A high-density, high talent week with the biggest names in finance and tech If you’re building or backing in crypto, fintech, and finance, this is the room to be in. Discounted tickets are available for Developers ($250), Artists ($250), and Students ($100) by application only. Limited general admission tickets are available for $500. Get your tickets before they sell out: solana.com/breakpoint

Weather is now on Solana! Our mobile app is live and it is the first and only weather app on Solana dApp store. What can you do with the mobile app? ✅ Check weather forecasts anywhere in the world ✅ Manage your weather station ✅ Earn $WXM rewards You don't need a weather station to use it, but we do have a special coupon with 25% off your next purchase. Use the code 'depinsummer' How do you get started? Simple. - Open the Solana dApp Store on your Solana Labs phones - Go to the DePIN category - Install WeatherXM Mobile app Hack the duopoly. Now, with Seeker & Saga phones, that global weather is in your pocket. Download the app.

Helium scaled from Raspberry Pi test rigs to 100,000+ active hotspots across 80 countries, powering the world’s largest decentralized 5G + IoT network  🛜 They process 576 TB of data in a single quarter for 124,000+ mobile subscribers, and they got there by rethinking everything from rewards to onboarding. The inflection point: migrating from their own chain (~10 TPS) to Solana (1600+ TPS). That shift: — Cut costs 1000x with compressed NFTs — Dropped transaction fees to fractions of a cent (a single Hotspot operator maxes out at ~$0.07 cents in fees, even claiming rewards daily — Made every hotspot composable with Solana’s entire onchain economy Read the blueprint for scaling your hardware or physical infrastructure with Solana. 📖 Full Helium technical deep dive case study: https://lnkd.in/gAxM3iAd 

Capital markets are evolving — from paper, wires, and business days to a new model: programmable, global, and near‑instant, 24/7 on Solana 🪙 Internet Capital Markets make it possible for anyone with an internet connection to access liquid global markets instantly. On Solana, $10B in stablecoins are issued, $1.2T trades each year, and more than 16M new tokenized assets are created annually. This growth is being driven by some of the world’s largest financial institutions. Franklin Templeton launched the first U.S.-registered money market fund onchain, BENJI, which is now tokenized on Solana. R3 is connecting enterprise blockchains and tokenized real world assets to public liquidity. Apollo Global Management, Inc. is making private credit available onchain to accredited investors, tokenized via Securitize. Bullish powers its trading, clearing, and settlement with Solana-native stablecoins. And leaders like VanEck, Brevan Howard, Societe Generale, and BlackRock (via Securitize) are exploring what’s possible when markets operate at internet speed. With battle-tested, enterprise-grade performance and a complete institutional toolkit for tokenization, Solana is where the next generation of equities, treasuries, credit, and other tokenized real-world assets are coming to life. Learn more about how institutions like Franklin Templeton and VanEck are building with tokenized assets on Solana: https://lnkd.in/gP_nG-it

If you work in finance, fintech or digital assets and want to learn about stablecoins then you're invited to join me, Middle East Stablecoin Association - MESA and Superteam UAE for a networking event on 10 September. We'll host an insightful discussion with industry leaders followed by networking.

R3 has spent over a decade building battle-tested infrastructure for banks, exchanges, and regulators — earning approvals and trust that take years 🏦 Now, their sights are set on mainstream adoption: bringing institutional-grade products to millions of users via Solana. In this Solana Stories episode, R3 CEO David E Rutter shares how tokenization is going mainstream — and why the next financial system will combine R3’s trusted infrastructure with distributed, permissionless networks like Solana.