Solana Foundation appointed Rachel Conlan, former Binance chief marketing officer, as Chief Strategy Officer, and Jamal Raees, former Polygon Labs executive, as General Manager of Payments. Conlan will oversee institutional partnerships and ecosystem growth, while Raees will focus on global adoption of stablecoins and tokenized deposits. Several new partnerships were announced, including deals with Modern Treasury, Amazon Web Services, Mastercard and Western Union. Solana is preparing the Alpenglow upgrade, targeting a reduction in transaction finality from 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds. The network has processed over $5 trillion in stablecoin volume since the beginning of 2026, with over $4.5 billion in real-world assets and over $620 million in tokenized equity on the network.
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