Grayscale Crowns Solana As Crypto’s New Powerhouse

Grayscale’s research team has delivered one of its most bullish assessments yet of Solana’s fundamentals, framing the network as the dominant venue for on-chain activity and a rare combination of scale, speed, and breadth. In a 17-minute read, the firm characterizes Solana as “crypto’s financial bazaar,” arguing that its “depth and diversity of on-chain activity” […]

Solana Could Get A Turbo Boost As Firedancer Targets Block Restrictions

Solana’s performance push picked up fresh momentum this week as engineers behind Firedancer, the alternative high-performance validator client spearheaded by Jump, filed a new Solana Improvement Document (SIMD-0370) to remove the network’s block-level compute unit (CU) limit—a change they argue is now redundant after Alpenglow and would immediately translate into higher throughput and lower latency […]

Solana Price Prediction: September Outlook Brightens as Galaxy Digital Fuels Another Rally

Solana (SOL) continues to command market attention after Galaxy Digital purchased $300 million worth of SOL in 13 transactions across Binance, Coinbase, and Bybit. The digital assets investment firm has now acquired over 6.5 million SOL in the past five days, worth approximately $1.57 billion, according to on-chain data. Related Reading: Bitcoin – Not Big […]

Will Solana Launch Its Own Stablecoin? Helius CEO Calls It A No-Brainer

Helius Labs CEO Mert Mumtaz ignited a fresh round of debate inside the Solana ecosystem on September 10 after floating the idea of a Solana-aligned stablecoin whose reserve yield would be redirected to SOL via buybacks or burns—either as an “enshrined” protocol feature or, more likely, through competing digital-asset treasury companies (DATs). “Warming up to […]

Solana Client Agave Smashes 1.1 Million TPS, Matching Firedancer’s Record

Solana’s Rust validator client Agave has matched Firedancer’s lab record, briefly peaking at 1.1 million transactions per second in a synthetic, single-node benchmark. The result was disclosed by Solana core engineer Andrew Fitzgerald, who wrote: “Hit a burst of 1.1m TPS on agave this morning. Single-node synthetic test with simple transfers. On a branch with […]

Solana Successfully Starts Community Voting Phase On Alpenglow

The most ambitious consensus overhaul foe Solana to date—SIMD-0326, nicknamed “Alpenglow”—has officially moved into the community voting window, a three-epoch process that began at the start of Epoch 840 and will conclude at the end of Epoch 842. The proposal rewrites Solana’s core consensus, replacing Proof-of-History plus TowerBFT with a modern architecture centered on a […]

Solana Ships Seeker Smartphone — Everything You Need To Know

Solana Mobile began shipping its second-generation crypto phone, the Seeker, on August 4, 2025, marking the project’s most ambitious push yet to bring on-chain functionality into a mainstream handset. The company confirmed the rollout publicly to users in 50+ countries and preorders topping 150,000 units—orders that materially outpace the first-generation Saga’s production run. The timing […]