Lightspeed Newsletter

Macro headwinds muddy Solana’s bullish narrative

Axiom merges Solana memecoins with Hyperliquid perps

Partial recovery is already in motion, according to the Loopscale team

Solana Crossroads kicked off today in Istanbul, and Solana builders decamped from around the world to Turkey

Around 150 Solana validators would lose their foundation stake under the new rule, perBlockworks Research estimates

Jupiter’s super-app story accelerates

Struggling stocks revive fortunes with Solana treasury buys

In recent weeks, Helium has hit new all-time highs while passing major protocol milestones

Colosseum co-founder Matty Taylor is seeing “high-performance [Solana] founders showing a lot of interest in private trading technology”

Tokens worth 20% of the current supply of the TRUMP memecoin launched by the president are set to be unlocked tomorrow

The asset surged over the past seven days to reach its highest-ever weekly close on the SOL/ETH pair

Publicly-listed Janover announced last week that a group of ex-Kraken employees had acquired a majority stake in the company

Blueprint Finance has launched a rebranded and re-engineered protocol today on Solana mainnet

The stickiness could be the result of bear market conditions where users are swapping out of riskier tokens to hold stablecoins on Solana apps instead, a Blockworks Research analyst said

Mary Gooneratne, co-founder of Solana DeFi startup Loopscale, wants to give blockchain borrow-lend a facelift

A fresh market update from Blockworks Research highlights the ecosystem’s March pressure test

M^0’s first Solana user will be a platform offering banking-like services with stablecoins

The decentralized infrastructure project is spotlighting its verifiable access to Solana snapshots through a decentralized CDN

The cell provider is offloading data to XNET’s Wi-Fi network

Solana Foundation’s former head of strategy proposes increasing the disinflation rate

Solana may be in “recomposition” mode, as new protocols put usefulness ahead of mere virality

The non-profit’s launch and big-name hires aim to grow Solana’s footprint in Washington

The exchange has structural defenses and protocols to limit manipulations

With a friendlier regulatory outlook and the airdrop flow being stemmed, some are looking to how new native tokens can become valuable assets