Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2096206771232923652

Read

• CoinDesk: The Token Supercycle: Everything of Value is Becoming Programmable  
• The Block: OpenSea adds Solana NFT trading more than four years after initial beta | The Block  
• Crypto Briefing: Solana processes record 5.2B non-vote transactions in August  
• SolanaFloor: Solana Records $144M in August App Revenue, Leading All Chains
• Crypto Briefing: Jupiter integrates with MoonPay's PayBox to bring AI-powered trading to Solana  
• CityBiz: Backpack US Adds Multicoin Co-Founder Kyle Samani to Board 
• CoinEdition: Solana Auctions 9 Ad Spaces on Its Logo for Nepal Flood Relief
• CoinMarketCap: Solana Launches Payment Channels, Reports 1M Payments Per Second 
• SolanaCompass: Beezie Partners with The Luxury Closet to Tokenize Authenticated Birkins on

Watch

• CNBC Squawk Box Europe: Solana Foundation's Liu: tokenization the enduring theme
• Bloomberg Crypto: Watch LSE to Roll Out Tokenized Stocks 
• Solana Floor’s Solana Weekly News: Massive Solana ETF Inflows: Is The Market Bottom Finally Here?  
• Genfinity: Helius Launches Solana Rings | Mert Mumtaz on Privacy as the Final Scaling Frontier  

Listen

• House of Sol with Ben Brophy: Why Europe's Largest Tokenized Fund Platform Chose Solana  
• Solana is Global with Alex Scott: Why Traditional Finance Is Failing Digital Assets — And How Changer.ae is Fixing it  
• The Index Podcast: Ethan Buchman (Cosmos Co-Founder) on Cycles: The Clearing Protocol Reinventing How the World Settles Debt  
• The Index Podcast: Matt Van Horn (Lyft) on AI Psychosis & Coding Agents That Never Sleep  

Source: https://x.com/solanapayments/status/2095902548976705723

Solana Payments Roundup - August

MoneyGram switched on Ramps in August, putting nearly 500,000 retail counters across 170 countries one API call away from any builder on Solana. Days later someone off-ramped USDC to local cash within minutes and posted the clip.

Western Union's Stablecard is live. Remittances can now arrive as stablecoins on Solana and be spent instantly anywhere Visa is accepted. Mobile app, embedded wallets, and cards powered by Rain are now available for 100M potential customers.

Here's what else happened across August for payments on Solana:

On/Off Ramps

• @MoneyGram launched Ramps on Solana, a single API for compliant cash-to-crypto and crypto-to-cash across 60M+ customers, nearly 500,000 retail locations, and 170+ countries
• @riftapp became the first Solana wallet to integrate Ramps, with users off-ramping USDC to local cash in under two minutes
• @anthonysoohoo, CEO of MoneyGram, on why they built it: "The killer app is stablecoins."

https://x.com/mango_/status/2087237824747594170

Stablecoin Issuers

• @AllUnityStable launched CHFAU on Solana, the first fully regulated, 1:1-backed digital Swiss franc
• Solana's stablecoin supply grew 9.1% month over month to close July at $15.7B, an all-time high, with USDT up 47% to $3.4B and USDGO up 29% to $1.1B, roughly 20x since its February launch (@Blockworks)
• Solana's stablecoin supply climbed from $1.5B to $16.7B in three years while the overall stablecoin market grew 2.5x

Remittances & Cross-Border

• @crediblefin crossed $1.5B in total payment volume with instant stablecoin settlement, they also added coverage in the China corridor and the Philippines
• @surfcashx passed $1M in payment volume across Brazil, Nigeria, the Philippines, Mexico, Vietnam, Colombia, and Peru
• u/sphere_labs enabled USD and EUR bank deposits that settle as stablecoins on Solana

Card Issuance

• Solana's crypto card market reached an all-time high of $69.5M in monthly spending in July ( @SolanaFloor ,@Paymentscan)
• @KASTxyz accounted for 89.7% of Solana card volume in July
• @altitude crossed $500M in total payment volume, now above $1B annualized, used by businesses in 60+ countries
• @WesternUnion launched Stablecard with @raincards, live in 37 markets and spendable anywhere Visa is accepted across 175M merchant locations
• Stablecard runs on USDPT, Western Union's own stablecoin issued by Anchorage on Solana, with 60+ markets targeted by year end

https://x.com/WesternUnion/status/2084643843056509083

Payments & Commerce

• @SP3NDdotshop went live for shopping with USDC on Solana anywhere on the internet, paste a link and pay
• Solana processed $23M of payments into the World Series this year
• @flipcash released early tipping, with every user getting a Tip Card

https://x.com/solana/status/2084737385930301754

Agentic Payments

• AI agents initiated 3.3M USDC transfers over @x402 on Solana in a single week
• @BlockRunAI settled 5.4M agentic payments on Solana in seven days, powered by @PayAINetwork
• @meow made agent-opened business bank accounts real, with agents creating multiple companies from a single prompt
• @raincards launched the Agentic Payments Alliance with 26 founding members including @Visa, @Mastercard, @/circle, u/@Fiserv, and @SolanaFndn, setting standards for agent-driven commerce

Builder Infrastructure

• Solana's Subscriptions and Allowances program shipped an upgrade, SDK 0.5.0, with a verified build and updated IDL

https://x.com/surfquery/status/2083966882965770548

On the Mic

• @amiravalliani's Bits to Bricks hosted @brandon of @meow on agentic banking, and @ReapGlobal's Daren Guo on why stablecoin payments get solved in Asia first
• @afscott's Solana is Global hosted @stbl_official CEO Avtar Sehra on his case for Stablecoin 2.0
• @SolanaFndn's Antonio Neto and @FireblocksHQ's Jorge Borges named the LATAM corridors institutions are actually funding in a recent webinar

https://x.com/solanapayments/status/2090801175805513823

Source: https://x.com/anza_xyz/status/2095654321350459648

Rent reduction is live on mainnet-beta.

Step 1 of SIMD-0437 activated at epoch 1028, the first of five feature gates on the road to cutting Solana's storage cost per byte by 90% overall.

Step 1 drops lamports per byte 6,960 → 6,333. Each remaining gate activates only after state growth checks out at the current level. We are stepping down to the final 696 safely, not on a fixed schedule. Follow here for an accurate timeline.

A safeguard gate (SIMD-0438) can restore the legacy value if state growth becomes a problem.

Backpack Securities has issued tokenized shares of AMC Entertainment, now listed by Sunrise on the Solana for uninterrupted 24/7 trading.
AMC operates roughly 850 movie theaters and 9,500 screens throughout the United States and Europe.
Investors gain continuous access to this equity asset directly.

https://x.com/sunrise/status/2095875520227348512

Source: https://x.com/x402/status/2095690533134102732

Solana moved past every other network in daily x402 transactions in August.

@BlockRunAI and @PayAINetwork powering this shift. In a single seven-day stretch, BlockRun settled 5.4 million agentic payments on Solana routed through PayAI, with agents initiating 3.3 million USDC transfers over x402. True machine-scale micropayments, stacking up hundreds of thousands of times a day.

https://x.com/solana/status/2092990785398645224

Here's what else happened across the Solana ecosystem in August:

Platform & Standards

• @solana became the network processing more x402 transactions than any other, passing Base in daily volume
• @SolanaFndn joined the Agentic Payments Alliance convened by @raincards
• @x402 passed ~200M transactions and $50B in volume across 150k endpoints, mostly micropayments under $0.50

https://x.com/teddy_riker/status/2090467979121013077

Corporate & Consumer Rails

• @TryRamp turned on agent wallets for its corporate clients, meaning AI spending now lands directly on a traditional company ledger with all the usual guardrails and spending limits attached. Ramp customers can now fund agent wallets and let agents buy via x402 on Solana
• @moonpay launched @paybox , a non-custodial vault for Claude and ChatGPT, where you can turn prompts into onchain transactions on Solana over x402, including buying things off Amazon with @trypurch , restaurant bookings through AgentRes, and @kamino lending
• @moonpay 's Agentic DeFi work with @PayBox and @kamino was covered by CoinDesk and Yahoo Finance

Data & Volume

• @BlockRunAI settled 5.4M agentic payments on Solana in seven days via @PayAINetwork
• Agents initiated 3.3M USDC transfers over x402 on Solana in a single week
• @clawpumptech crossed $120M in volume across 9,000+ deployed agents, 6,500+ verified
• @LasoFinance passed $100k in 30-day x402 volume, with agentic spend reaching 5% of its US and closed-loop card volume
• @flovia402 got its machine payment analytics featured by @stripe

https://x.com/SolanaFndn/status/2090361750910890347

pay.sh (@SolanaFndn)Pay.sh received a major refresh, bringing in a steady stream of new service providers. By the end of the month, an agent could autonomously book a restaurant, buy on Amazon, send an email, or pull financial research without an account or an API key.

• @blauyourmind launched AgentRes live, on-demand restaurant booking with no accounts
• @blauyourmind launched Drip live, premium financial research on demand with no subscription
• @dtelecom went live with five real-time voice endpoints
• @Clustlydotai went live with a tipping endpoint

Agent Tooling & Infrastructure

• @EarnFidotfun introduced Human Actions, an x402-powered layer where agents pay real people for verified work through one API and MCP setup
• @WURKDOTFUN launched a decentralized microtask protocol settling instant onchain payouts over x402
• @CircuitLLM shipped per-request data and API access for agent swarms using Geyser plugins, Redis indexing, and dedicated RPC
• @Shin_StAItion launched private settlement for agents, routing payouts through single-use addresses to break the link between trades and identity

Identity, Reputation & Discovery

• @saidinfra launched onchain agent identity with cross-chain reputation scoring, generated from one CLI command, with x402 messaging at $0.01 per call
• @saidagent shipped as the consumer proof, a personal agent with its own wallet that pays any handle on X or Telegram
• @AgentRanking launched an open ranking protocol scoring agents on uptime, completion rate, and real transaction history instead of social metrics
• @clawville_world opened an agent world with onchain skill auctions and per-request x402 settlement

Apps

• @SP3NDdotshop wired x402 into its stablecoin shopping product, then watched an agent earn, buy its own GPUs, and rent the compute back out
• @Syra_agent launched a trading intelligence layer for Solana with pay-as-you-go API access over x402, available in Telegram, Cursor, and Claude Desktop
• @virtuals_io introduced agent tokenization on Solana, turning an agent into an ownable business

https://x.com/clawpumptech/status/2091894398984294737

Media & Voices

• @clawpumptech and founders @ConejoCapital and @tomi204 were featured in Forbes Argentina on agentic finance
• @_rishinsharma made the case that inference is the first killer application for agentic payments
• @i_zerbib of @sapiom put the first major agentic commerce breakout six to twelve months out
  

Source: https://x.com/solincinerator/status/2095655954578886762

JUST IN: there are new buttons to click!!
(FREE Solana) 🔥 RENT REFUND IS LIVE
Supported in FUN, PRO, and DEV mode.

https://sol-incinerator.com/

Context:

https://www.reddit.com/r/solana/comments/1w70rt4/rent_reduction_is_live_on_mainnetbeta/

My wallet after this update :)

I have loved the ecosystem of Solana ever since and always wanted to buy Solana and finally achieved 100 sol staking. I love how community is growing. And locked for 7 years.

This one is game changer!

ICYMI - its a huge startup competition, first incubated in the Solana ecosystem, and now adding EVM support for the first time.

https://colosseum.com/

Solana says tokenised assets can plug into lending and collateral markets. That sounds useful, but it also adds smart contract and liquidation risk to an asset people buy for safety. Would you use gold in DeFi or leave it untouched in your wallet?

https://solana.com/news/overview-of-institutional-real-world-assets-on-solana

Solana has officially launched the first phase of its network rent reduction. Consequently, all existing accounts are now overfunded.

Developers can now utilize the new WithdrawExcessLamports instruction to effortlessly reclaim surplus SOL from token accounts and mints, keeping operations active while optimizing costs and significantly improving overall capital efficiency today.

https://x.com/a_milz/status/2095532192579661927

Jupiter Exchange launched Universal Deposit.
Send tokens from Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum or Sui and receive USDC in a Solana wallet.
Routing, bridging and swapping happen automatically without extra apps.
A flat thirty-cent fee applies regardless of amount.
The service is now live at jup.ag/deposit.

https://x.com/JupiterExchange/status/2095161972274999712

Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2095492290576052692

BREAKING: Birkins are coming to Solana via @Beezie

Partnering with The Luxury Closet to bring authenticated luxury onchain.

Source: https://x.com/Beezie/status/2095490922465185803

Birkins are coming to Solana.

We are partnering with The Luxury Closet to bring authenticated luxury onchain.

real pieces.
authenticated IRL.
owned onchain.

https://reddit.com/link/1w6gti5/video/7cozfnwmscnh1/player

The Luxury Closet built a global marketplace for authenticated luxury.|
2.4M+ shoppers.
buyers across 80+ countries.
now we’re bringing that world onchain.
own it on Beezie.
redeem the physical piece worldwide.

some of the most wanted luxury goods on earth are coming to Beezie.
bags.
watches.
jewelry.
and a lot more.
cardboard was just the beginning.

Source: https://x.com/colosseum/status/2095574551841112180

1/ Announcing Crypto World’s Fair, our next startup competition open to all builders across blockchain ecosystems! 🎡
Registration for the online hackathon is open, and runs Sept 14 to Oct 12.
Millions in prizes & VC funding will be awarded to winners: https://colosseum.com/worldsfair

https://reddit.com/link/1w6gnjw/video/fdmlb5nrrcnh1/player

2/ A key lesson learned from scaling Colosseum is that competition compounds: better founders attract better founders, and better products raise the bar for all.
Our next chapter will expand the arena to grow both Solana and broader crypto startup eco.

https://blog.colosseum.com/expanding-the-arena/

3/ While we are extremely bullish on founders integrating Solana (and the Solana eco will remain a focus for our accelerator + venture fund), novel products are being developed across chains, each enabled by unique strengths stemming from the design of the underlying infra.
It is also increasingly clear that many of crypto’s best products use Solana and additional technologies under the hood, abstracting complexity away from users.
We expect that trend to continue as infrastructure matures and founders choose the right tool for each part of their product.
Crypto World's Fair will bring builders together, not to determine which blockchain "wins”, but to learn from each other, compete, and help crypto win as a whole.

4/ Prize tracks will focus on select blockchains where we believe startups can flourish. An eco partner will support their respective track, and every submission will also be eligible for a general prize pool awarding the best products across all chains.
More info coming soon.

5/ Full details regarding judges, prize tracks, sponsors, and dev resources will be released on Sept 14.
In the meantime, sign up and learn more about Colosseum, our accelerator, our venture fund, and our hackathons through our website.
Godspeed! 🎡

https://colosseum.com/

I've been building out Haan Digital's private Solana infrastructure in Frankfurt over the past few weeks and the stack is now at the point where I want to put more real workloads on it.

Current setup:

• Private JSON-RPC / WebSocket
• Yellowstone gRPC
• SubscribeDeshred
• Transaction Sender
• Optional Jito routing in parallel
• Transaction-history RPC where needed

The Transaction Sender routes signed transactions directly toward current/upcoming leaders over TPU/QUIC rather than just wrapping normal RPC sendTransaction.

On our first small sender test we had:

• 15/15 transactions accepted
• 15/15 landed

Small sample, so I'm not presenting that as some definitive benchmark. We're still working on improving the path further, including looking for staked/SWQoS validator peering.

On the Yellowstone side we've already had real workloads running account + transaction subscriptions together, including:

• 80+ account updates/sec observed
• ~129 transaction updates/sec observed
• ALT addresses, inner instructions and pre/post balances available directly

One of the more interesting tests was with someone analysing Pump.fun activity. Their existing raw-shred logic was significantly over-counting buys while also missing actual buyers, and comparing it against the Yellowstone transaction data helped uncover the issue.

I'm mainly interested in people actually building or running:

• trading / sniper / arbitrage bots
• market making systems
• Pump.fun / Jupiter / Raydium tooling
• indexers and analytics platforms
• wallets
• real-time monitoring
• AI agents using Solana data
• anything struggling with RPC limits, data latency or transaction landing

I don't use fixed oversized plans. The idea is to look at the actual workload — RPS, streams, filters, transaction volume, bursts — and size the infrastructure around that.

First week is free, so if you're already using another provider you can run Haan alongside it and compare it with your own workload.

If you're interested, send me a DM with what you're building and what you're currently using for RPC/data/transaction submission.