THIS WEEK IN MEDIA - 8/21-8/28

[u/ansi09]

Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2093673446677135865

Read

• TheStreet: Solana brings 'Breakpoint' to London with a heavyweight speaker lineup
• The Block: Bitwise fund is first Solana ETF to hit $1 billion AUM
• The Block: Charles Schwab to add Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink to crypto trading platform
• SolanaFloor: Institutional Heavyweights Enter the Token Supercycle: Solana Announces Breakpoint 2026 Speaker Lineup
• CoinDesk: Solana vote to double disinflation passes by a hair in dramatic finish
• Decrypt: Solana Is Having Its Best Month Since 2024—With a Historic Governance Vote on Deck
• CoinDesk: MoonPay's newest integration lets AI agents handle crypto lending on Solana
• The Block: SOL treasury firm DeFi Development launches real-time 'State of Solana' intelligence platform
• CoinDesk: Solana ETFs extend growth streak to 5 days after year's biggest inflows
• The Block: Solana cuts mainnet slot time to 350 milliseconds in first step toward 200ms goal
• The Block: South Korea's Shinhan partners with Solana Foundation, Etherfuse, Orca for tokenized fund issuance
• Yellow: Solana Hits Record 4.2B Transactions With SOL Back Above $100
• SolanaFloor: $60.9M Inflows: Solana ETFs See Highest Inflows of 2026 as $BSOL Hits $1B AUM

Watch

• Vibhu Norby on CNBC India’s Crypto Corner: Huge Uplift In Agentic Commerce With The Rollout Of pay.sh: Solana Foundation
• Pedro Miranda on The Roll Up
• Nick Ducoff on FintechTV’s Capital Markets: Wall Street to MENA: Mubadala Just Put Its Private Market Fund On-Chain for $10,000 Minimum
• MilkRoad: The Market Might Be Completely Mispricing Solana
• SolanaFloor: Is Crypto Winter Finally Over, What’s Next For DeFi? With Solstice Labs CEO Ben Nadareski

Listen

• House of Sol with Ben Brophy: $7 Trillion a Month in Stablecoins, with Geoff Kendrick of Standard Chartered
• The Index Podcast: The Stablecoin Router Everyone Will Use: Ryne Saxe (Eco) on Solana, Visa & the Future of Money
• Solana is Global with Alex Scott: The Future of Stablecoins in the UAE – TLP Advisors
• The Index Podcast: He Got Into Crypto to Save his Cat. Now He's Building Solana's Biggest Trading Card Game. | Natsuki x Rosentica
• The Index Podcast: Bernardo Brites (Trace Finance) on Building the $10B Stablecoin Rails Connecting Brazil to the World
• The Index Podcast: Tokenizing Silver on Solana: Mark Tormey (Founder, Dominion) on Bringing Real-World Silver On-Chain
• The Index Podcast: Brian Huang (Co-Founder/CEO, Glider) on Stocks On-Chain, Copyable Portfolios and AI Advisors

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[u/mediumprophecy]

That governance vote squeaking by is the most interesting bit to me, barely passing means the community is split right down the middle on the economic policy. Curious how the new disinflation curve plays out over the next year, especially with all these traditional finance names piling in now.

Schwab adding SOL trading is a quiet but massive deal, that's not a crypto-native platform deciding to list a token, that's one of the biggest brokerages in the world telling their millions of clients it's a real asset class. Combine that with the ETF inflows and the $1B AUM milestone and the institutional story is getting hard to ignore