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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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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.
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An AI Tool No One Audited Just Cracked Open Crypto's Entire Frontend Layer
Hackers breached Vercel — the hosting backbone for thousands of DeFi apps — by exploiting a compromised third-party AI platform. API keys, tokens, and source code are on sale for $2M on BreachForums.
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The Man Who Could Set US Interest Rates Owns Solana, dYdX, and Polymarket
Kevin Warsh — Trump's pick to replace Jerome Powell as Fed Chair — heads into his Senate confirmation hearing tomorrow with 30+ crypto investments in his portfolio. Here's what it means for rates, regulation, and the entire industry.
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North Korea Robbed Drift. Tether Wrote the Check — and Just Dethroned Circle on Solana.
Tether is bailing out Drift Protocol with $148M after North Korea's $285M heist — but the real play is quietly replacing Circle's USDC as Solana DeFi's settlement currency.
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A Fake Ledger App Ran on Apple's App Store for 2 Weeks and Drained $9.5 Million
A fraudulent Ledger Live app slipped through Apple's review process, stayed live for roughly two weeks, and drained $9.5 million from 50+ victims before ZachXBT blew the whistle.
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Morgan Stanley Just Launched a Bitcoin ETF That Costs Half as Much as BlackRock's
MSBT debuted on NYSE Arca at 0.14% — nearly half BlackRock's IBIT fee — making Wall Street's biggest wealth manager the most aggressive new entrant in the Bitcoin ETF war.
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Someone Deliberately Blew Up $3M on Fartcoin to Steal $1.5M From Hyperliquid
A whale built a $15M leveraged Fartcoin position across four wallets, then intentionally imploded it — weaponizing Hyperliquid's auto-deleveraging system to dump losses onto the exchange's own vault.
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Stablecoins Are Broken in a Way Nobody Admits — a16z Just Paid $10M to Fix It
You can't swap USDT for USDC at face value without slippage. A former a16z partner just raised $10M to build the clearinghouse that makes stablecoins actually fungible — and Stripe, MetaMask, and Phantom are already signed up.
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North Korea Spent Six Months Pretending to Be a Trading Firm to Steal $270M From Drift
Drift Protocol confirmed today that the April 1 exploit wasn't opportunistic — DPRK-linked hackers spent six months attending crypto conferences, building real relationships, and depositing real money before draining $270M.
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Circle Watched $232M in Stolen USDC Bridge Out for 6 Hours — and Did Nothing
ZachXBT just published a damning thread showing Circle had the power to freeze $232M in stolen Drift Protocol funds — during business hours, over 6 hours — and chose not to. It's part of a pattern spanning $420M across 15 cases since 2022.