Actually insane.

Solana has been up for 734 days and counting. No stops or interruptions. That level of reliability is exactly why more activity keeps choosing this chain.

BREAKING: Solana leads all payments platforms in TPV growth.

Validators: Agave v3.1.8 is now recommended for Mainnet-beta. Please upgrade if: - <5% of stake is delinquent - You can actively monitor your node - You can report issues to mb-validators Discord github.com/anza-xyz/agave…

BREAKING: Goldman Sachs just disclosed $108M in SOL holdings Wall Street’s largest investment bank is allocating to Solana

~12 seconds → under 150ms. Alpenglow is coming. Anza's Brian on what's next engineering Internet Capital Markets on Solana.

AI agents will spend more money than humans. They'll be doing it on Solana. Agent payment standard by Crossmint, @visa Intelligent Commerce, Circle, Stytch, and Solana:

🚨BREAKING: SOLANA LEADS TOP 10 LAYER 1 BLOCKCHAINS BY REVENUE IN JANUARY 2026 🚨

Validators: Agave v3.1.9 is now recommended for Testnet. Please upgrade if: - <10% of stake is delinquent - You can actively monitor your node - You can report issues to mb-validators Discord github.com/anza-xyz/agave…

🚨 Bhutan (gmcbhutan) launches the world’s first Solana-backed digital nomad visa. 🇧🇹 Applicants must purchase $10,000 worth of TER - tokenized gold on Solana - plus a $2,800 application fee, allowing them to stay up to 36 months in Bhutan. The $10,000 is refundable at the end

Validators: If you are currently running experimental XDP retransmit support on Mainnet-Beta, please disable it immediately while we patch a stability issue. We'll announce when it's safe to resume.

Validators: Agave v3.1.9 is now recommended for Mainnet-beta. Please upgrade if: - <5% of stake is delinquent - You can actively monitor your node - You can report issues to mb-validators Discord github.com/anza-xyz/agave…

BREAKING: $AVAX from Avalanche🔺, is now live on Solana via Sunrise 🔺

Did DoubleZero just find a way to send the fastest shreds on Solana? Multicast FTW runs.solstack.app/run/eab415bd-5…

Validators: SIMD-0444, which relaxes the program data account check during runtime-level program migrations, is now live on testnet at epoch 928. This feature requires at least Agave v3.1.8 and FD v0.811.30108

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BREAKING: The SEC has formally classified SOL as a digital commodity in its new crypto asset taxonomy, alongside BTC, ETH,  and 14 other assets. SOL is not a security.

DoubleZero shreds are fast. Really fast. I benchmarked Turbine, DoubleZero, and 3 commercial shred providers head-to-head on the same machine — nanosecond precision, per-shred comparison. Here's what I found 🧵👇

Validators: SIMD-0332, which reduces ChaCha rounds used in Solana's Turbine weighted shuffle from 20 -> 8, is now live on mainnet-beta at epoch 946. This feature requires at least Agave v3.1.0 and FD v0.812.30108

Epoch 947: Top-20 #Solana validators by TVC. ❕ Less missed credits = better performance. Leading infrastructure providers: 🥇 Allnodes – 6 validators 🥈 Teraswitch – 2 validators 🥉 Cherry Servers – 2 validators Full leaderboard: validator.info/solana/leaderb…