Macro investor Raoul Pal said on Wednesday that cryptocurrency’s real significance lies in enabling AI agentic finance, rather than token price moves.‘Exciting’ Unlock For Square SellersIn an X post, Pal argued that tokens going up and down is the “smallest part of what’s happening.”“Money is about…
Solana is set to release Agave 4.2 on mainnet, bringing a 90% rent reduction, 4096-byte transactions, and 200ms slot times, according to the event description.Lower rent reduces the cost of maintaining on-chain state, while larger transactions can allow applications to process more data per transac…
Solana reports that 100M CU blocks are live on mainnet. Through SIMD-0286, the block limit rises from 60M to 100M compute units, adding 66% more block capacity.The higher limit gives Solana more room to process activity during periods of heavier on-chain demand. By allowing more compute units in ea…
Crypto projects lost more than $1 billion to hacks during the first half of 2026 as the number of verified exploits climbed to a record, according to Blockaid.In a report published Tuesday, Blockaid called H1 2026 the “most-hacked half-year on record,” referring to the number of incidents rather th…
Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche became busier and cheaper to use over the past year as staking participation remained high and institutional involvement grew. Yet ETH, SOL and AVAX have each fallen by roughly half or more during the same period."We've seen a big divergence between network fundamenta…
Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang made his debut on X on Friday, and Bitwise advisor Jeff Park said the post was a bullish case for the intersection between AI and crypto.“Bullish on crypto x AI,” Park said of the letter from the Nvidia co-founder calling for open-weight AI models, even though the let…
Solana will close applications for the MagicBlock VIP Builder Program on July 31st. The program is organized with Superteam Malaysia for developers building on Solana.Refer to the official tweet by SOL:Join @magicblock and @SuperteamMY for their VIP builder programApplications close on July 31st 👉…
S&P Dow Jones Indices and Pantera Capital have launched the S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index, a new crypto benchmark that excludes Bitcoin BITSTAMP:BTCUSD entirely.CEO Cathy Clay said Bitcoin fails the index’s core test, generating real protocol revenue instead of trading purely on speculation.How t…
Morgan Stanley makes Solana available for spot trading to eligible E*TRADE clients through its self-directed channel, according to the Solana post relaying the capitalmarkets announcement.Adding SOL to a major self-directed brokerage broadens where retail brokerage clients can access spot exposure…
Solana’s tokenized asset trading volume reached $5.77 billion in the second quarter, up 114% from the previous quarter and marking a sixth straight quarterly record. According to Odaily, tokenized stock trading volume reached $4.8 billion, up from $1.1 billion in the first quarter.The Solana Founda…
Daddy Tate (DADDY), the Solana meme coin built on Andrew Tate’s brand, fell 24% on Sunday. The trigger was the arrest of Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami, where US Marshals detained them on a UK extradition request.UK prosecutors also added 38 new charges against the brothers. That lifts their comb…
Jimothy The Raccoon (JIMOTHY), a Solana meme coin named after a viral Seattle raccoon, jumped 186% in 24 hours. Live BeInCrypto market data puts its market cap near $11 million.Anonymous developers launched the token this week. Clips of the animal’s odd shape had already spread across social media…
Stephen “Cap” Newnham, who leads the Solana community group Superteam UK, said he will run as an independent candidate in the Aug. 13 parliamentary by-election in Clacton against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.On Tuesday, Newnham outlined five campaign pledges, including support for local entreprene…
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 13th, 2026, ChainwireByreal, a decentralised exchange incubated by Bybit, today marked its first anniversary since launching on the Solana testnet on 30 June 2025. Over the past year, the platform has grown into a primary liquidity venue for tokenized real-world as…
Solana has fallen nearly 6% over the past seven days as a failed breakout above $80, Phantom Wallet performance problems, and fresh security headlines have weakened short-term market sentiment.As per CoinGecko data, SOL traded around $76.3 on July 13 after slipping from above $80 earlier in the wee…
Solana Fee Proposal Shows Validator Economics Are Still Being Rewritten is the kind of crypto story that looks simple at headline level but becomes more useful once you place it inside the wider market backdrop. Solana’s fee market is no longer just a technical footnote; it is central to how the ne…
Stripe subsidiary Privy has partnered with Solana infrastructure firm Jito Labs on a new transaction certainty tool called FullSend, which will help ensure that transactions sent from Privy wallets are included in Solana blocks "as fast as the network allows," according to an announcement shared wi…
Solana has slightly recovered following the heavy selling pressure on Wednesday. The coin dipped 3% on Wednesday amid strong bearish momentum.The bearish trend was due to the weakening institutional inflows and declining activity in the derivatives market. This suggests that both institutional and…
Solana’s ETF story keeps gaining weight. The latest Bitwise-linked filing puts SOL more firmly into the institutional product conversation, even if approval is still a separate and much harder question.The useful way to read this is not as a guaranteed price signal, but as a fresh piece of informat…
Semiconductor stocks beat both Big Tech and crypto in the first half of 2026. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index gained 102%, while the Magnificent Seven fell 2% and Bitcoin BITSTAMP:BTCUSD lost 33%, according to Deutsche Bank and CoinGecko data.Wall Street banks now disagree about the second hal…
