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Solana is a high-throughput public blockchain known for low transaction costs and fast finality, widely used for DeFi, NFTs, stablecoins, and tokenized assets.
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Ether's order-book depth slid to 35-45% of bitcoin's in the third quarter, CoinGecko found, while its price rose 70%. The slide came mainly from bitcoin's book growing by about half while ether's stayed near $13 million to $14 million.
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OKX has filed with the SEC to launch tokenized-stock trading in the US, Bloomberg reported, aiming at buyers barred from its 70-plus ticker offshore line. The SEC's new exemption admits only tokens with dividends and votes, so the synthetic product it sells abroad would need rebuilding first.
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Forward Industries added $62.5 million of institutional debt in the quarter its SOL per fully diluted share rose 10.4%, to 0.0806. Netted against that debt at a constant SOL price, the per-share gain is closer to 4.3%.
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Fiserv went live with Bank of North Dakota's Roughrider Coin, a stablecoin more than 90 local banks and credit unions reach through software they already use. The test is whether they pick it over the conventional transfer in the same system.
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Drift's DFX recovery token opened at about 0.0104 USDT per dollar lost in the $295.4 million April exploit, roughly one cent on the dollar. Paying every capped pledge in full would lift that to about 50 cents, and the other half depends on Velocity's revenue and on funds recovered from the attacker.
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Bitcoin ETFs took in $6.34 billion in the third quarter as the coin rose nearly 43%, about $3.1 billion of it in a nine-day September streak. The money is real, but its late arrival leaves open whether it drove the rally or chased it.
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Crypto job listings on CryptoJobsList more than tripled to 1,241 from July to September as applications fell below 20,000, about 16 per opening. Most of the squeeze comes from employers posting more roles, and higher pay for finance and trading hires remains an inference.
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DefiLlama's October 3 snapshot shows 399 of the 558 blockchains it tracks earned zero fees in 24 hours, while only seven cleared $100,000. For most of the field, user fees are too small to support a token price.
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Backpack Securities put Powerus stock on Solana as a token a day after Powerus closed its Nasdaq merger, drawing $9.1 million of trading by mid-afternoon. The test is whether the Solana price stays tied to the Nasdaq share between sessions.
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Solana and Robinhood Chain took 49% of the $467.66 million onchain apps earned in September, the best month of 2026 in DefiLlama's data. Memecoin launchpads account for Solana's share, but Robinhood Chain's near-tripling has no reported source, so one month cannot show fees settling there.
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Stripe-owned Bridge is issuing the OUSD stablecoin on four blockchains, with reserves held at BlackRock, Lead Bank and BNY. Open Standard has not said how much has been issued, so its list of more than 200 partner businesses is the only size figure on record.
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Anza researchers' SIMD-0675 would schedule Solana validators by registered location, cutting simulated handover delays 53%, to 17.0 milliseconds. Every validator would keep its share of slots, so what operators pay for faster handovers is disclosure of where their machines run.
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Anza moved Solana's testnet and devnet to Alpenglow on Sept. 24 and 25, cutting finality from about 12.8 seconds to a 100 to 150 millisecond target. Mainnet-beta follows an observation period with no date set, the window exchanges and app teams have to retest what they count as settled.
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Crypto apps generated $3.3 billion in fees in the third quarter, $1.44 billion of it in September, led by Solana and Robinhood Chain launchpads. The fee-sharing tokens behind the jump were fading by month-end, so October's total will show how much of that cash repeats.
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Token Terminal data shows tokenized stocks deposited in DeFi protocols reached $262.4 million, nearly 18 times January's $14.66 million. About half of that total built up in September alone, which is too recent to show whether the deposits will stay.
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Gavin Newsom signed AB 2409, barring crypto platforms from listing meme coins issued from January 1, 2027 by or in partnership with a public official. The cutoff leaves the existing TRUMP token outside the rule, so the compliance cost falls on exchanges screening launches that have not happened yet.
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HIFI, Atum and MeshWallet raised $60.5 million for stablecoin payments in the week to Sep. 25, most of crypto's disclosed private funding. The week's one direct bet on a token price came from Forward Industries selling $25 million of stock to buy more Solana.
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Researchers counted 28 million Solana sandwich attacks in three years and found Jupiter Ultra users hit far less often than users of rival trading terminals. Because that spread sits between apps on the same chain, it is evidence about the choice of terminal more than about the choice of chain.
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Pump.fun sold 47,994 SOL for $5.83 million, about $121 a coin, taking its cumulative SOL sales past $848 million. At that price it needs about a third more SOL per dollar raised than at its earlier average of roughly $164.
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Tokenized equities now count 1.4 million holders, up 447.5% in six months. The growth is a distribution story, and the average position is still very small.
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