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According to PR Newswire, Solana Mobile, the mobile business of the Solana ecosystem, announced at the Ledger Op3n 2026 event in Paris that the hardware wallet company Ledger has become its first hardware expansion partner. The Solana dApp Store and wallet will merge into the Seeker app and integrate with the new device Ledger Atom, which will be pre-installed on the device's home screen for users to access the Solana ecosystem. Pre-orders for Ledger Atom are now open.Ledger Atom is based on the Android open-source project and features a secure element running Ledger OS, with a protection level of EAL6+, displaying and touch control physically isolated from the Android system. Signing and approval are completed in secure mode, and the device includes tamper-proof and tamper-evident solutions, sold exclusively through the Ledger official website. The built-in app store currently has over 1,500 applications covering categories such as trading, payments, gaming, and AI. Existing Seeker users are unaffected, and developers can reach more devices with a single submission.This collaboration builds on Solana Mobile's opening of the Solana Mobile Stack to Android manufacturers at the World Mobile Communications Conference in March 2026. The SKR token is used to reward user participation, developer building, and hardware vendor integration. Seeker has a transaction volume exceeding $13 billion, with 154 million transactions and over 200,000 devices sold; the company shipped Saga in 2023 and will ship Seeker in 2025.

According to on-chain data platform SolanaFloor, Circle minted approximately 750 million USDC on the Solana network in the past 24 hours.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

According to official news, ASTER has connected to Solana through Sunrise, and users can currently access and trade ASTER within the Solana ecosystem.Aster stated that this connection will further expand the trading and usage channels of ASTER across different blockchain ecosystems.

Solana's official post on platform X stated that the second Solana spot ETF in Hong Kong, Pando Solana ETF (stock code: 2831.HK), is scheduled to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 13.In addition, Solana's official disclosure revealed that the total net assets of global Solana spot ETFs are currently approximately 1.9 billion USD, with a cumulative net inflow of about 1.6 billion USD.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, at 10:53 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana network.

According to The Block, the U.S. spot Ethereum ETF saw a net outflow of $542.1 million last week, marking the worst week since January, with capital outflows occurring for 9 consecutive days.During the same period, the Solana ETF experienced a net outflow of $24.8 million, ending a previous streak of 14 weeks of net inflows, and recording the largest single-week net outflow since the product was launched.

The Solana client development company Anza posted on X that SIMD-0525 has been completed, and the 200 millisecond slot is now live on the Solana mainnet test version.Anza stated that the block landing frequency has reached twice that of the genesis, and the duration of one epoch has been shortened from about two days to about one day. Anza was formed by the original core engineering team of Solana Labs and is responsible for maintaining the Solana validator client Agave.

According to data from SolanaFloor and Blockworks, as of today, the number of independent active addresses on Solana has reached 1.88 million, setting a new high in 13 months. Data from Santiment shows that the growth metric for the Solana network has increased by 124% compared to early September, with an average of approximately 1.71 million new wallets added daily. In addition, the number of wallets holding a balance on Solana has increased by 38.5% month-over-month to 16.1 million.