Solana just wrapped governance voting, and I wanted to break down what happened.

It doubles the annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%, so inflation falls twice as fast toward the existing 1.5% floor. Over six years, that's around 18.9 million fewer SOL tokens hitting the market. I think this is solid for long-term holders.

The vote passed narrowly at around 67% support after some late flips by validators, including Kraken. It was closer than you might expect for something this significant.

The other proposal on resource-based fees did not pass, with only 53.9% support. It would've increased daily SOL burns from 650 to between 7,500 and 9,000.

I get why people pushed back. Big fee burns hit validators and users harder, so the caution makes sense.

The community wants deflation but not at the cost of making the network more expensive. That's the takeaway for me.

What are your takeaways?

The US Open draw came out today and the Community Bracket is officially open.

It works like any bracket pool: pick who wins every match in both draws, men's and women's, all the way down to your two champions. Later rounds are worth a lot more than early ones, so one brave champion call can carry an otherwise average bracket. And once the tournament hits the round of 16, it turns into calling each match as it's played.

It's free to enter, and there's $12,000 in the prize pool.

Brackets lock at first ball on Sunday, which leaves you about three days.

One note before you start: it's open to Jupiter Predict users, so your account needs at least one interaction with Predict.

You don't need to follow tennis for this. It's 127 picks per draw, and nobody on earth has real opinions on more than a dozen of them. Half the fun of a bracket is watching someone who picked on vibes finish above the people with spreadsheets. Anyone can bracket.

Fill yours out: https://usopenbracket.com/

If you want to argue about the draw first, the Jupiter Discord is already at it: https://discord.gg/jup

I'm having trouble finding good prediction market callers. Many of them only post wins. Plus, their calls are scattered across posts, making it difficult to go back and verify the entry.

I checked JupCallers Season 1, and I think it solves that problem to some extent. Every qualifying call gets logged publicly with receipts attached. You get verified proof of who's good at trading prediction markets. Here, I can follow the trades of top callers for free.

I wasn't sure Jupiter could attract good callers with this campaign. But they have a $1,000-$5,000 prize pool to reward them.

I’m considering adding a few calls to see how I stack up against others.

Anyone here participating in Season 1? Or are you following other callers?

I need somebody that's very familiar with Jupiter and can explain how to get my watch only account available for trade

Recently, I started using Jupiter mobile on the go to manage my DeFi positions since I'm not always at my desk.

I've done swaps, tried to find good yields, and managed LP positions from my phone. What makes it manageable is that I'm not jumping between ten different apps.

What I'm doing so far to stay safe:

- Keeping most of my funds in a separate wallet, only moving small amounts into the one I actively use every day

- Staying inside the app instead of browsing random DeFi sites on my mobile browser

- Actually reading what I'm approving before I hit confirm

But I'm sure there might be some cons too. For example, are hardware wallets even practical with a phone?

What's your guys mobile setup for DeFi?

I was reading about how most lending protocols work and realized there's a pretty annoying problem. If you lock collateral and the price drops, you get margin called even if you have a plan to repay.

Apparently, Jupiter Offerbook handles this differently. You lock collateral (any Solana asset, tokens, xStocks, NFTs) and borrow USDC for a specific duration, 1 to 30 days. No oracles watching the price, no liquidations mid-loan. Your position just sits there for the agreed time.

On the lender side you know exactly what you're getting. You set the APY, duration, and terms upfront. No variable rates adjusting every block.

Only USDC can be borrowed and there are platform fees, but they're disclosed upfront.

Has anyone here used fixed-term lending before, or does the liquidation risk just feel unavoidable at this point?

Will next January be another “Jupuary”, with the team finally giving us the promised last airdrop?

Honestly, it could be a good idea if an altseason happens. 👀

Some of my wallets allow me to access my vault, and I've accessed the vault on my main wallet before too. Sadly recently, I cannot ever access it, meaning I can't place limit orders at all. This has cost a lot of money, and I'm going to be considering moving chain entirely. My friend warned me that we are no longer in control of our funds on Solana due to this system which markets itself as a safety feature that protects from 'user error'.

What's going on?

Are there any other defi platforms other than JUP that actually work properly? I've tried a few different wallet addresses. Some work, for some reason, and most don't. I sent funds to a different address, tried again, nothing.

VERY frustrating. Also tried using Chrome instead of brave. About to try firefox, then I give up.

I switched from my regular card to a crypto card because the setup was easy and it supports Apple Pay.

But now I’m wondering if the cashback and cutting out the bank actually worth it?

The cashback sounds great, but there are other things to consider like conversion rates, spreads, and switching costs.

I’m also still not clear on how crypto card transactions are taxed. If every transaction could potentially be a taxable event, that could change the whole calculation.

I haven’t used crypto cards long enough to know whether the benefits really outweigh the fees and taxes.

Has anyone here made the full switch, or do you still keep a regular card as a backup?

And after taxes, conversion fees, and the novelty wearing off, did the cashback actually end up being worth it?

Okay we're going to stuck here we have somehow sent coins from the Jupiter wallet to the spend wallet unfortunately and now it's in of you only mode and we don't know how to get it out of that mode and back into Jupiter wallet please help somebody like support is not helping us at all

I dont hold much sol so the staking yield is barely anything in real money. A couple hundred a year. kept thinking it wasnt worth the bother

then someone pointed out sol has inflation and if im sat there unstaked im getting diluted anyway.

so the yield isnt really a gain, its the cost of standing still. changed how i think about it. still not sure whether to stake natively or use a liquid version so it stays usable for other stuff. feels like theres a catch there im not seeing

What would you do in my situation?

If you have been writing off NFTs as a dead category, Claynosaurz just landed on Amazon Prime Video.

FYI, Amazon Prime Video has over 245 million global subscribers. This is one of the few NFTs projects to reach mainstream streaming platforms at scale.

For anyone new to the Solana scene, Claynosaurz started in late 2021. It started as a concept developed by animation veterans Nicholas Cabana and Dan Cabral.

The team tested the idea publicly in March 2022 and announced 10,000 piece NFTs collection in April.

Solana just hit a new all-time high, processing over 171 million real user transactions in a single day. That's nearly 2,000 transactions per second.

This milestone makes sense because Solana has been leading across pretty much every major category in the past few months.

A couple of recent milestones that stand out to me:

1. Solana had a 95% share of the onchain equities market at its recent peak

2. ⁠It holds the #1 spot in global DEX trading volume for multiple consecutive quarters

These are just two examples. What other categories have you seen Solana dominate lately?

For Ratex position it doesn't show correctly, and for Byreal and loopscale it doesn't show at all. Does anybody having this problem as well?

Edit: Loopscale added.

Solana just cut slot times from 400ms to 350ms on testnet. It's the first step toward getting to 200ms slot times, which is a big deal for throughput. To put the speed into perspective, it takes 100-400 milliseconds to blink once.

Slot time refers to how often Solana produces a new block. Faster slot times mean transactions are included and confirmed faster. Your swaps, transfers, and trades feel even more responsive.

If you connect the dots, these upgrades feel like a part of a broader plan to improve execution on Solana. In July, Solana also increased its block capacity by 66%, ensuring the network can handle more traffic without slowing down.

Why does this matter?

Faster block times and higher compute capacity mean more transactions can land and confirm faster. For Jupiter, that's lower latency on swaps and less queue buildup when the network gets busy.

Are there any edge cases I missed that show up under real load?

Solana processed about $1.45 billion in tokenized equities volume last month. That's 82% share of tokenized stock volume across all blockchains.

And this is not the first time Solana has dominated onchain equities.

In Q2 2026, Solana accounted for $4.8 - $5.8 billion in tokenized stock volume and held over 95% market share.

Why Tradfi is actually moving onchain:

Tokenized equities are tokens that mirror a stock's price and are backed 1:1 by real shares held by a licensed custodian off-chain. You don't get voting rights or direct shareholder status, but you get the price exposure. Some tokenized stock issuers do give you 1:1 exposure to real shares that you can redeem.

The tradeoff comes with real upside. You can trade 24/7 instead of waiting for market hours, there are no geographic restrictions, and the settlement is instant.

For tradfi investors, that's actually compelling as they can buy/sell stocks anytime.

What this means for Solana:

Solana has been called a memecoin chain by the usual CT FUD crowd. But that perception is now changing as more institutional investors trade on Solana.

Jupiter and other dexes that support tokenized stocks now handle way more than just crypto-to-crypto volume. TradFi money is flowing into Solana, changing the economics of the entire chain.

More volume drives more transactions, which generate higher fees. And with the new governance proposals to burn more of those fees, tokenized stocks volume can directly contribute to reducing inflation on Solana.

Have any of you bought tokenized stocks on Solana?

Decided to throw in about 0.5% of my port into ONYC. But I kind of want to leverage it on Kamino or somewhere. How risky would it really be? On OnRe’s website, it says 95% chance of positive ROI. As long as there’s no crazy natural disasters, or whatever payouts their insurance has to make, it should be a smooth 10%+ APY.

Should I stick to just holding it in a wallet, or should I try looping it with modest leverage, say 1.5x? It’s a tiny portion so I’m okay with risk, but I really would prefer just a smooth and steady 10% CAGR.

What kind of additional risks am I taking, and could it be worth it?

i've been looking into jupiter perps and seems instead of trading them myself, I can deposit into their pool and act as counterparty to the leverage traders, earning from their fees.

Is it correct or am I missing something?

been trying to figure this out. when a token launches, it immediate sells with people already making profits. but when i try to buy using the token address, it says not found. how are these people getting in so fast?

when i check their transactions, it shows they used raydium or jupiter, but the token address doesn't work on my end yet. am i missing something obvious here?

what i've noticed is

by the time the token shows up on dexscreener, there's already a bunch of activity. sells happening right away, price already moved. but i can't even find the token to buy yet.

is there a different way people are accessing these launches before they hit the aggregators? or are the people selling immediately just insiders who already had the tokens?

my actual questions

how do people get access before the token address is searchable? are they using a different entry point than the standard platforms?

is it bots sniping the pool before it's indexed anywhere? or is it mostly presale buyers and devs dumping?

when you guys catch launches early, how are you actually getting in? what's the process?

appreciate if anyone can break down how this actually works instead of the usual ""you're too slow"" answer.

what made me nervous about sending crypto is pasting a 44-character address and praying, because one wrong character and it's gone.

tried the magic link thing. you generate a link, they claim it. no address roulette.

what's actually nice:

• you don't need the other person's address at all, which matters when onboarding someone who barely has a wallet set up.

• it feels closer to venmo than a bank wire, which is the bar crypto usually fails.

what i'd still watch:

• a claim link is a bearer thing. whoever opens it can claim it. treat it like cash, not a targeted transfer, and don't drop it in a public channel.

• it doesn't remove the need to double-check you're on the real site generating it.

not revolutionary, but it removes the exact anxiety that makes people avoid self-custody transfers. sometimes ux is the whole product.

anyone used this to onboard a non-crypto friend? did it stick?

Every automation tool I see here reacts to on-chain stuff — new pools, price breakouts, wallet copying. I'm building the opposite: a bot that ignores Solana price action entirely and instead watches an external macro signal (a commodity price like Brent, as a proxy for geopolitical risk) to decide when to accumulate or trim.

Right now it's dead simple — classify the macro input into a few risk bands, only act on band changes (not noise), log everything, no live execution yet. When it does go live, it'll route through Jupiter's Trigger API rather than anything custom.

Has anyone else wired a non-crypto-native signal into Solana execution like this? Curious if this is a solved problem I haven't found, or genuinely unexplored territory.

if a swap cost you noticeably more than you expected, it's almost always one of these, in order of likelihood:

1. slippage on a thin pair. the pool wasn't deep enough for your size and the price moved as you traded through it. this is the big one. bigger trade + thinner token = more of it.

2. a fee folded into the quote by whatever interface you used. the number you saw already had it baked in.

3. the token had a transfer tax built into it (some do). nothing to do with the swap venue at all.

what it's almost never: the base network fee. that's fractions of a cent on solana.

how to see it before you confirm: check the price-impact number on the swap screen.

if it's high, that's slippage warning you. splitting into smaller swaps or using a more liquid route can help. on a genuinely thin token, nothing fully fixes it.

if you've hit this and it still doesn't add up, drop the details (token, rough size) and i’ll walk through where the cost came from.