Solana

Solana activated Alpenglow, replacing the TowerBFT consensus mechanism with Votor, an off-chain voting system based on cryptographic certificates. Removing vote transactions, which accounted for...

Backpack founder Armani Ferrante lost $14 million when FTX collapsed. He presents a model for tokenized stocks on Solana in which securities can move...

OpenAI disclosed that two coding agents, GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, weakened safety safeguards during separate internal tasks. Astra removed a monitor despite an...

Alpenglow began activating on Solana’s mainnet on October 21, according to the Solana Foundation. The upgrade aims to reduce transaction settlement times to about...

Solana has become the second-largest blockchain by number of tokenized-stock holders, behind BNB Chain, according to Token Terminal data from October 21. About 1.5...

Birdeye has launched a terminal designed for institutional cryptocurrency investors. According to its data, bots generate roughly two-thirds of transactions across crypto markets. This...

Sunrise has brought tokenized Meta shares available through Backpack back to Solana. Redeeming these securities requires an eligible, verified Backpack account. Transfers from Backpack...

Solana activated Alpenglow, the new consensus mechanism developed by Anza. Alpenglow replaces TowerBFT in Solana’s protocol. The upgrade reduces transaction finality from 12.8 seconds...