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Members of the Solana team shared photos announcing the establishment of an office in Shanghai, China. Core member Vibhu and Foundation Chair Lily Liu announced that Solana occupies the "highest" commercial office space in the world.In response, Binance founder CZ retweeted, stating that it is amazing to see Solana able to advertise in China and even set up an office. BNB Chain has not been able to achieve this so far.

Social Graph Ventures founder Jakub Rusiecki posted on X that he has joined Colosseum as Principal. He stated that he first met Clay Robbins in January 2024, during the launch of Colosseum and the upcoming fundraising for its first fund.Rusiecki mentioned that he has been following Clay Robbins, Matty Tay, and Nate Levine from the beginning and has continuously observed the team's transformation of the Solana hackathon into a company incubation pipeline. Over the past year, both parties have frequently favored the same batch of early projects and have aligned in their early investment judgments.Rusiecki also noted that the majority of current crypto venture capital is flowing into later rounds, while the next batch of companies often starts with two-person teams and hackathon projects, typically earlier than the investment timing of traditional funds. Colosseum attracts developers through hackathons, supports founders from the idea stage with accelerators, and continuously backs breakthrough projects and other companies within the accelerator with its fund. He will review hackathon submissions and plans to attend the London Breakpoint.

The multi-agent framework Swarms announced that its Launchpad has integrated the dynamic bonding curve (DBC) of the decentralized liquidity protocol Meteora for issuing tokenized agents and prompts, claiming that the issuance speed has increased by approximately 80%.Creators can now pair tokens with specified Solana tokens and earn creator fees from the paired tokens in the liquidity pool. The new issuance process also includes on-chain fee configuration, enhanced token security measures, and a simplified release process. Swarms refers to this update as Agent Capital Markets 2.0.

Whale Alert posted on the X platform that USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana network at 00:50, worth approximately 250 million USD.Solscan data shows that the minting was executed by Circle, and the transaction has been confirmed successfully.

According to Token Terminal data, the total market capitalization of the tokenized ETF market has reached $686.5 million, with Ethereum ranking first with a market capitalization of $303 million, accounting for about 44%. BNB Chain ranks second with $192.1 million, and Solana ranks third with $91.5 million.The above three blockchains collectively account for about 85% of the market capitalization of the tokenized ETF market, indicating that related assets are mainly concentrated in the Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Solana ecosystems.

According to CoinDesk, Solana plans to implement the Alpenglow upgrade on October 21. This upgrade aims to reduce the transaction finality time to about 150 milliseconds and replace the existing voting system of the network with a faster certificate-based consensus mechanism.

According to on-chain analyst AI Yi's monitoring, the TRUMP team allocated an address that transferred 11.78 million dollars worth of tokens to a new address after 12 days, which may be deposited into an exchange.Twelve days ago, he transferred 8.87 million dollars worth of Solana to the address 52RDq...rkaD1: 6p6xgHyF7AeE6TZkSmFsko444wqoP15icUSqi2jfGiPN. This portion of tokens was subsequently deposited into OKX through two addresses.

Elon Musk just retweeted comments related to the open-source AI IP Claudia on the X platform. As a result, according to GMGN market data, the Claudia token on Solana briefly surged nearly 40%, with a market cap currently reported at 5.86 million USD.Last weekend, Musk retweeted a video themed around Claudia and praised in an interview that "some of Claudia's works could rank among the top 10-20 best music videos he has ever seen." Claudia was created by the biotech company aion co-founder anabology, aiming to make Claudia the open-source "Hatsune Miku" of the AI era. Anabology has stated that the transaction fees from the CLAUDIA token will be used to fund the production of related themed films.

The cryptocurrency entertainment platform 1win announced that it will publicly sell the Solana native token 1WIN on October 15, 2026, at 4 PM (BST). The announcement states that the token will be used to expand the Web3 applications of the existing gaming ecosystem, user rewards, and a token mechanism linked to revenue. The total supply of 1WIN is fixed at 1 billion tokens, with no further issuance after the Token Generation Event (TGE). Its uses include gaming, lotteries, rewards, and other ecosystem functions.The announcement lists two mechanisms: to repurchase 1WIN on the open market using gaming revenue; and to permanently destroy 10% of 1WIN spent on supported platform products through smart contracts. In terms of supply distribution, 51% is allocated to users, with 25% for the platform's gaming reward pool, 18% for Wager Rewards, and 8% distributed through the 1win Telegram Mini App. The token can be accessed via standard Solana wallets and decentralized exchanges.1win claims that the platform has 100 million registered players in international markets, and its existing business operates independently of the token, generating revenue through gaming and entertainment products. The platform has supported multi-chain cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals and stated that earlier this year it introduced wallet login through Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and WalletConnect. 1win was established in 2016, with operations covering Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

The total value of tokenized stocks has approached $3.3 billion, growing 15% over the past 30 days. Tokenized stock trading on major blockchains such as Solana and BNB Chain mostly occurs outside of regular trading hours in the U.S. Over 70% of tokenized stock trading volume on BNB Chain takes place outside of 9:30 AM to 4 PM Eastern Time, while this ratio for Solana and Base is 63% and nearly 60%, respectively.The trading volume of tokenized assets on the Solana trading platform Jupiter has increased by 50% month-over-month. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launched an "innovation exemption" last month, allowing eligible trading venues to trade tokenized U.S. stocks on public chains. SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda stated that relevant platforms must disclose trading prices, volumes, timestamps, and daily trading volumes in U.S. dollars, as well as publicly disclose liquidity pool addresses and balances.

Whale Alert posted on platform X that USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana network at 00:17, worth approximately 250 million USD. Solscan data shows that this minting was executed by Circle, and the transaction has been confirmed successfully.Previously, Circle had minted 250 million USDC on the Solana network at 05:49 on October 13.

According to The Defiant, the Solana development team Anza has scheduled the migration of Alpenglow's mainnet Beta for approximately 10:50 AM Eastern Time on October 21 (Wednesday), at which point the new consensus system will replace TowerBFT, aiming to reduce the final confirmation time for transactions to about 150 milliseconds. The Solana Foundation's upgrade guide indicates that the final confirmation time under TowerBFT is about 12.8 seconds. Final confirmation refers to the point in time when a transaction can no longer be rolled back, rather than the block interval.Alpenglow's Votor voting protocol no longer submits votes as on-chain transactions; instead, messages are sent directly between validators and aggregated into certificates, allowing blocks to be finally confirmed after one to two rounds of voting. The removal of voting transactions from blocks also frees up block space for users, while the execution and fees for user transactions remain unchanged. This upgrade had previously completed the migration of the testnet and development network in September, and the mainnet functionality switch has not yet been activated. According to Anza's activation policy, the new version of the software must be adopted by 95% of the staked amount for two epochs before it can be activated on the mainnet.The migration plan separates the activation of the functionality switch from the handover itself: the functionality switch is activated at the epoch boundary, and after 5,000 slots, blocks will pause carrying user transactions and will only contain votes. Validators will then establish the Alpenglow genesis certificate supported by 82% of the staked amount, roll back blocks containing only votes, and then restore user transactions with Votor. Anza expects the handover to take several hundred milliseconds.

According to the announcement from HashKey Exchange, the Solana spot ETF under Pandu officially listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 13, with the stock code 2831.HK. The fund directly holds SOL, with an annual management fee of 0.6%.HashKey cited the closing data from SoSoValue, stating that, based on assets under management, this fund has become the largest product among the listed and regulated Solana spot ETFs in Asia. HashKey Exchange serves as the digital asset trading platform for this fund, while HashKey Custody Services provides secondary custody services for SOL, supporting the custody, trading, and redemption settlement of the underlying assets.

Rome Protocol announced the launch of its native token ROME, which will be used as Gas for the Rome proprietary chain, and can be used for transactions on the chain from the first day of its launch. The protocol connects EVM applications with Solana, allowing Solidity contracts and users to interact with Solana programs and assets, and settle atomically on Solana; the protocol is already running on the mainnet, with more components in the development and testing networks.Rome EVM runs as a single program on the Solana mainnet, supporting multiple EVM chains and various Gas tokens, with EVM contracts sharing state with Solana programs. The mainnet program has been audited by Halborn, and the deployed binaries can be reproduced from public repositories. Solana zkEVM operates on the development network, using Solana for settlement, data availability, and verification; Canton zkEVM operates on the testing network. The mainnet has provided asset bridges such as USDC, oracle gateways, block explorers, and applications, allowing users to sign on the original EVM chain, self-custody their assets, and access the Solana lending market.Rome charges a small fee for each transaction on every chain it supports, half of which is retained in ROME, or purchased on the open market and added to a non-sale reserve. The project states that this is not a token sale, and it will not disclose valuation, dates, or market listings; supply and schedule will be announced after determining the trading venue.

Solana rating card hosting and card drawing platform Collector Crypt released its Q3 2026 report: revenue of $433.5 million and gross profit of $25.4 million, both setting records, with increases of 8% and 12% compared to Q2, respectively. Card pack revenue was $433.1 million, almost constituting all revenue; buyback and redemption expenses were $408.1 million, accounting for 94.1% of revenue, with a quarterly gross margin of 5.9%.Sales reached $212.2 million in June but declined month by month, with July, August, and September at $157.3 million, $141.7 million, and $134.5 million, respectively, while the gross margin in September rose to 6.7%. Sales of card packs priced at $2,500 and above amounted to $169.6 million, accounting for 39% of card pack sales; the $1,000 tier dropped from $132.1 million to $53.4 million. After Jupiter began selling card packs on July 13, the number of active wallets increased from 7,051 to 9,127 over 30 days, while daily revenue per wallet decreased from $9,100 to $5,600.As of September 30, tokenized inventory was $55.1 million; market transactions totaled $8.6 million, accounting for about 2% of the business, with two initial edition Charizard cards sold in September for $600,000 and $825,000, respectively. Cumulative revenue surpassed $1 billion on August 13, and the token CARDS fell 14% to $0.195 in the quarter. Courtyard's Q3 revenue was $7.6 million, approximately 3.3 times that of Collector Crypt;

Whale Alert posted on the X platform that at 05:49 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana network.

Investment bank StoneX has raised the target price for the tokenization platform Securitize from $12 to $18, an increase of 50%, while maintaining the buy rating given by analyst Mark Palmer. This adjustment comes on the first trading day after the launch of Securitize Stocks, which saw the stock drop by as much as 10% in early trading on Monday, with the new target price still about 45% higher than the stock price at that time. Palmer noted that although SECZ's stock price rose last week due to the news of the platform's launch, the market still views it as a tokenization service provider, while the company has actually evolved into a market operator.StoneX pointed out that in the second quarter, Securitize's trading volume of $5.3 billion generated most of its tokenization revenue from integration fees, with the trading volume itself being almost unmonetized. The launch of Securitize Stocks is expected to change this situation, allowing the company to start charging fees from trading and services, and potentially earning collateral-related income in the future. Last week, the platform introduced stocks such as Apple, NVIDIA, and Tesla to Solana, with transactions settled in USDC, and the tokens backed one-to-one by the underlying stocks, allowing holders to enjoy dividends and shareholder rights.StoneX expects Securitize's revenue to approach $120 million in 2027, growing to about $198.5 million in 2028, with an annual growth rate of approximately 65%. Based on Palmer's target price of $18, the corresponding enterprise value to revenue multiple for the 2028 forecast is about 14.5 times. The firm believes that as the scale of tokenized stock trading fees expands, the company's revenue structure will shift from one-time integration fees to ongoing trading and service charges.

According to The Defiant, the OSL brand stablecoin USDGO has integrated with Jupiter Lend and Fluid on the Solana network to increase its trading liquidity support.USDGO is issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, with a current circulation of approximately $1.29 billion. Reports indicate that the lending market for USDGO is planned to be launched next.

According to GlobeNewswire, the Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury company DeFi Development (DFDV) disclosed that it increased its holdings by approximately 22,070 SOL last week, bringing its total holdings to about 2.5862 million, valued at approximately $302 million.The company stated that since the announcement of its second-quarter financial report on August 12, its SOL and equivalent asset reserves have grown by about 12%. Additionally, the recently established $300 million over-the-counter issuance plan (CHAD ATM) will provide an additional source of funding for the continued expansion of SOL reserves in the future.

According to on-chain data platform SolanaFloor (@SolanaFloor), in the past 7 days, Circle minted approximately 3.5 billion USDC on Solana.