Solana: This week, we Accelerate 🗽
After over 10k builders submitted to @Colosseum’s Solana Breakout Hackathon, the first @SolanaConf in the USA kicks off tomorrow in NYC
As we prepare, let’s look back at what shipped last week:
- @vaneckus’s first tokenized fund VBILL launched on Solana via @securitize with interoperability by @wormhole, offering investors yield backed by tokenized short-term U.S. Treasuries
- The @squadsprotocol team introduced @tryaltitude, stablecoin-native USD account for businesses to save, earn, and move dollars powered by Solana
- The Solana Foundation released a tokenized equities whitepaper explaining how Solana is purpose built to issue public equities
- @chainstackHQ introduced Solana nodes with unlimited RPC requests where builders can pay with crypto
- @colosseum Breakout Hackathon submissions officially closed, with over 10k builders submitting. Who will emerge victorious from crypto’s largest startup competition ?
- @pumpdotfun introduced creator revenue sharing, with 50% of PumpSwap Revenue now shared with Coin Creators
- @ArciumHQ launched its Dark Pool demo on Solana’s public testnet, making private trading possible onchain for the first time
- @Formacity introduced Solana Economic Zone: Kazakhstan to accelerate economic and technological progress in Central Asia, just prior to the Astana International Forum. 28th of May. Apply now!
- @netsepio went live with their decentralized VPN on Android and iOS, helping users access a censorship-free internet via zk-proof based bandwidth sharing for secure, verifiable connectivity
- Bitcoin continues to grow on Solana. @lemondropfi was launched for all @phantom users on Solana. Every trader can download the Lemondrop extension and start automatically stacking sats at the speed of Solana.
- The @orogoldapp private beta went live, turning gold into an internet-native financial primitive: yield-bearing, composable, and programmable.
- @hivemapper partnered with @lyft, bringing crowdsourced map data powered by Solana to one of the world’s biggest rideshare companies
- @10KWorld launched the first watch-to-earn app on Solana, where creators earn 1% from each trade
- @kinetic_xyz launched Season 1 on Solana, featuring a Swap Arcade that gamifies trading
- @Blockcastnet’s content delivery network powered by Solana launched, where users can earn with their idle internet bandwidth
- @chainlink labs launched their Build on Solana program for early stage founders building on Solana and utilizing Chainlink tech to scale GTM and growth
And last but not least…as always, yell in the comments with anything we missed.
For those of you who won’t be joining us in NYC this week – don’t worry, we’ll livestream here on X and YouTube for those around the globe who can’t join us IRL. are you ready Solana fam?!
Mon May 19 2025 08:57:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
