Solana: While Wall Street was closed, Solana stayed open for business 🔔

This week, pump raised $600M in 12 minutes, Bullish announced they’re moving their core infra to Solana, and CME SOL futures surpassed $4B volume. Here’s what you might’ve missed:

- Solana continued humming along during high demand, with $448M raised onchain out of $600M total for @pumpdotfun’s token offering in just 12 minutes.

- @Bullish, the crypto exchange with over $1.4T volume, announced they’ll migrating their core infrastructure to Solana-native stablecoins to power custody, payments, trading, and settlement

- Minna Bank, a subsidiary of Fukuoka Financial Group, announced that they're working with @FireblocksHQ and TIS to study payments, tokenized real world assets, and settlement powered by Solana

- SOL futures surpassed $4B traded on one of the world's largest regulated derivatives exchanges, @CMEGroup

- @Crossmint launched a new wallet SDK built from scratch for stablecoins and fintech with Solana support baked in ft. sponsored gas, no vendor lock-in, and more

- @GUNbyGUNZ launched on Solana, bridging to Solana’s high powered DeFi ecosystem

- @blockworksres’s @0xSharples released a new launchpad dashboard covering revenue, token launches, volume, and users across launchpads like @pumpdotfun, @bonk_fun, @raydiumprotocol, @believeapp, @Moonshot, @MeteoraAG, and many more

- Vibe coders rejoice: @solana_devs MCP server implementation went open source

- @gardenfinance’s trustless Bitcoin bridge launched Solana support, enabling fast BTC bridging to Solana

- Total deposits on @KaminoFinance surpassed $4B, a huge milestone for Solana DeFi

- @0xMert announced he’s launching another podcast by a bald founder, with Accelerate coming to a pod near you

- @heliuslabs dropped a banger report on the state of Internet Capital Markets on Solana

Probably missed a dozen more drops. Let us know what else shipped and have a beautiful week ahead 🫡