Solana SOL
High-throughput Layer 1 known for cheap transactions, meme-coin culture, and a deep validator network. Home to many of 2025-26's most active protocols.
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Recent Solana coverage
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140 Firms Including Visa, BlackRock, and Google Just Built a Circle Killer
Open USD (OUSD) launched June 30 with 140+ backers — Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, Google — and a model that gives 100% of reserve yield to partners instead of the issuer. Circle's stock crashed 17% overnight.
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Crypto Treasury Analyst Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Explore the 2026 salary range for Crypto Treasury Analysts: $90K-$300K. Discover what top crypto protocols are offering.
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GameFi Developer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
GameFi Developer salaries in 2026 range from $90k to $300k. Learn what crypto protocols are offering for top talent.
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The People Who Built Ethereum Are Walking Out the Door — And Joe Lubin Says It's 'Not a Crisis'
8 senior Ethereum Foundation researchers quit in 2026 — including Tim Beiko, who ran All Core Devs for years, and Carl Beek, who helped build the Beacon Chain. ETH ETFs just hit 17 straight days of outflows. A former EF researcher now wants a $1B rival org to actually fight for ETH's price.
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Crypto Data Engineer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Discover what Crypto Data Engineers earn in 2026. Salaries range from $120k to $250k. Uncover the highest-paying protocols.
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NFT Engineer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
NFT Engineers can earn $120k-$400k in 2026. Discover the salary range and top-paying protocols in this comprehensive guide.
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The 'World's Fastest Blockchain' Just Froze — Again
Sui mainnet stalled for the second time in 2026, halting transactions for nearly an hour and sending SUI tumbling 8%. Three crashes in under three years is a pattern, not bad luck.
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Jack Dorsey Hates Stablecoins. He Just Gave Them to 60 Million People Anyway.
Block's Cash App begins rolling out USDC payments to its nearly 60 million users — even as CEO Jack Dorsey publicly admits he doesn't want to do it.
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Vitalik's Anime Letter Triggered Ethereum's Biggest Talent Exodus — 8 Senior Researchers Gone
Eight senior Ethereum Foundation researchers quit in 2026, five in May alone. The trigger? A Milady-themed 'Mandate' document staff were told to sign or be fired. Now a former EF dev wants $1 billion to replace the whole organization.
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Wallet Engineer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Discover Wallet Engineer salaries in 2026, ranging from $110K to $250K. See what crypto protocols are paying for this crucial role.
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Italy's $1 Trillion Bank Doubled Its Crypto Bet to $235M — and Completely Dumped Solana
Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest bank with ~$1 trillion in assets, more than doubled its crypto exposure from $100M to $235M in Q1 2026, added Ethereum and XRP for the first time, bought Bitcoin call options — and slashed its Solana position by 99%.
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The New Fed Chair Owns $100M in Crypto — And Nobody at the Fed Has Ever Said That Before
Kevin Warsh just replaced Jerome Powell as Fed Chair on May 15, 2026. He holds Solana, dYdX, Bitcoin Lightning equity, and a stablecoin stake. The most crypto-native person to ever run the Federal Reserve is now in charge of US monetary policy.
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Visa Just Settled $7 Billion in Stablecoins — and Quietly Doubled Its Blockchain Network
Visa's stablecoin settlement pilot hit a $7B annualized run rate — up 50% in a single quarter — and just expanded to 9 blockchains including Base, Polygon, and Stripe's Tempo. TradFi isn't coming to crypto. It's already here.
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Is North Korea Running an AI That Automatically Hacks DeFi? April's $625M Record Says the Theory Isn't Crazy
April 2026 was the worst month in crypto hack history: 30 attacks, $625M drained, North Korea behind 76% of it. Now a developer is claiming DPRK trained an AI to autonomously exploit DeFi — and the Wasabi Protocol's $5M multi-chain drain may be its latest hit.
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South Korea's Biggest Credit Card Company Just Chose Solana to Power Payments for 28 Million Users
Shinhan Card — South Korea's largest card issuer with $145B in annual transaction volume — signed an MOU with the Solana Foundation to build a stablecoin payment stack. They already completed six proof-of-concept projects alongside Visa, Mastercard, and Fireblocks.
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Western Union, Founded in 1851, Just Killed SWIFT With a Solana Stablecoin
The 175-year-old money transfer giant confirmed its USDPT stablecoin launches on Solana in May — replacing SWIFT for global agent settlements. The first real-world partner went live this week.
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Pump.fun Just Lit $370 Million on Fire — and the Community Is Furious
Pump.fun burned 36% of PUMP's entire circulating supply overnight — $370M vaporized in two transactions. Then came the twist: those tokens were supposed to be airdrops. Now Solana's biggest meme coin launchpad is at war with its own community.
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Ethereum's Biggest Rivals Just Pooled $300M to Bail Out a North Korean Hack — and It Might Actually Work
DeFi United drops its technical rescue blueprint today, with Consensys, Aave, Compound, the Solana Foundation and 14 other protocols pledging $300M+ in ETH to re-collateralize rsETH after the $292M Lazarus-linked KelpDAO exploit. This is the most coordinated cross-protocol rescue in DeFi history.
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69,000 AI Agents Are Already Spending Crypto — And None of Them Asked Permission
Coinbase's x402 protocol just launched an app store where AI agents autonomously buy Bloomberg data, AWS compute, and trading APIs with USDC — no human approval required. 165 million transactions have already settled.
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DeFi Lost More in 18 Days Than All of Q1 — And Congress Just Called an Emergency Hearing
April 2026 is already the worst month for crypto hacks since February 2025. $606 million gone in 18 days. 3.7x the entire first quarter. Today, Congress is holding hearings. Here's what broke.