Solana
ClaimSolana is a high-performance blockchain network designed to support financial applications, payments, and crypto services at scale.
Key numbers · TVL $5.9B · per DefiLlama · updated Oct 18
Overview
Solana provides a public blockchain infrastructure used by individuals, startups, enterprises, and financial institutions to build and run applications including decentralized finance, stablecoin issuance, tokenization of real-world assets, and payments. Users can access the network through wallets, and developers can build applications or run validators. The network reports 50M monthly active addresses and 3.5B monthly transactions. Institutions such as Franklin Templeton, Apollo, and Samsung have built or integrated services on the network.
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Western Union is launching USDPT, a dollar-backed stablecoin built on Solana, issued by Anchorage Digital Bank.
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Recent activity
Partners with Samsung Wallet to bring cross-border USDC transfers to Galaxy devices
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Launched Solana DvP, an atomic settlement program for financial institutions
Samsung Wallet to support USDC cross-border transfers on 82 million U.S. Galaxy devices starting last week of October 2026
Bitwise's Solana staking ETF became the first Solana ETF to pass $1B in assets under management in August.
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Jupiter Lend reached a record $2.41B in deposits in September.
Sunrise-listed tokens passed $1B in weekly trading volume on Solana in September.
Helius acquired Light Protocol in June to build a privacy layer for Solana.
Column, the FDIC-insured bank behind Brex and Slash, built stablecoins into its banking core with Solana as default network.
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Solana carried 76% of all x402 agent payments between August 22 and September 19, 23.2 million transactions.
Stablecoin supply on Solana reached an all-time high of $17.3 billion on September 25.
Hosted Solana Capital Forum Singapore
Column integrated USDC and USDT stablecoins directly into its banking core alongside ACH, wires and SWIFT.
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Jupiter launched Universal Deposit, letting users deposit tokens from Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and Sui into SOL or USDC on Solana.
Launched Solana Payment Channels support for x402 and the Machine Payments Protocol.
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Shipped Agave 4.2, the latest software release for the Solana network.
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SIMD-0268 raises max cross-program invocation depth from 4 to 8 nested calls per transaction.
Launched Microscope, decoding program and Squads multisig activity into Grafana dashboards and alerts.
web3.js v3 is now ready for general use.
Activated a feature gate cutting slot times from 250ms to 200ms after one epoch.
Open USD is now live on Solana, letting businesses mint and burn 1:1 for dollars with over $1 billion committed to liquidity.
Supports checkout and web payments via x402, Solana Pay, Commerce Kit, and Kora
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Offers Agent Registry and Skills to give agents identity, trust, and context
Offers Solana Developer Platform with APIs for issuance, payments, and trading
Western Union uses Solana Developer Platform to orchestrate fiat and stablecoin flows end-to-end.
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Coinbase Developer Platform has joined the Solana Developer Platform.
Worldpay uses SDP's payments and issuance modules for onchain settlement and tokenized assets.
SDP now supports AI coding tools Claude Code by Anthropic and Codex by OpenAI.
Merchants can now settle transactions with USDG on the Solana network.
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Fiserv launched FIUSD, a stablecoin designed for its institutional clients.
Visa has moved millions of USDC between partners over Solana to settle fiat-denominated payments.
Supports BENJI, the world's first U.S.-Registered Money Market Fund, onchain
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Partnered with R3, uniting R3's private enterprise blockchain with Solana
Hosts Apollo's private credit fund ACRED onchain via Securitize
Powers Bullish's exchange, clearing, custody, payments and settlement with Solana-native stablecoins
