Solana Ecosystem Weekly Report: Comprehensive Development, Influence Continues to Expand

In the past week, the Solana ecosystem has made progress in multiple areas, with capital support, technological upgrades, and policy exploration collectively driving its global influence to expand.

A Hong Kong listed company has purchased SOL tokens worth approximately HKD 2.9 million, becoming the first publicly listed company in the region to invest in the Solana ecosystem, demonstrating the recognition of Solana by traditional finance in Asia. Meanwhile, a Solana spot ETF from a certain institution has been officially registered with a U.S. custodial trust and clearing company, and the market generally holds a positive outlook on its prospects for regulatory approval, reflecting strong interest from institutional investors in Solana.

On a technical level, Solana has launched the LaserStream upgrade, which significantly enhances the processing efficiency of blocks, transactions, and account data through advanced gRPC streaming technology. This upgrade provides developers with more powerful tools, helping to optimize the performance of real-time applications and further consolidating Solana's leading position in the high-performance blockchain field.

In terms of community collaboration, the Solana Policy Institute has joined important projects within the ecosystem to submit a proposal for the tokenization of securities to regulators, aiming to provide clear guidance for the compliant development of the Solana ecosystem, reflecting the ecosystem's proactive efforts to promote a balance between blockchain technology and regulation.

Here are the important developments in various fields of the Solana ecosystem:

DeFi Field

• A certain DEX has launched a reward program exceeding $200,000, encouraging users to trade and create tokens on its SDK integration platform.
• Kamino announced that xBTC is launched on Solana and has initiated related growth plans.
• Marinade launched the Master Chef program to recognize and reward loyal community members.
• Jupiter has launched the Radar feature on its mobile version, providing users with notification services for airdrops, investment positions, and voting.
• stabble collaborates with Kima Network to provide exclusive opportunities for the community to earn $KIMA rewards.
• Kyber Network integrates with Orbiter Finance to achieve fast and secure cross-chain swaps between major networks.
• streamflow launches an active staking reward mechanism, converting protocol revenue into staking rewards.
• Stronghold announces the integration of $strongSOL with Kamino Lend, supporting deposit and multiplier features to enhance yields.
• Unitas Labs' $USDU is now live on a trading platform.
• Zenith has completed the audit of Meteora's Dynamic AMM v2 constant product liquidity pool program, and no significant issues were found.

Real-World Assets (RWA)

• Usual announces the first wave of "Loyalty Bonus", redistributing 6.5 million USUALx from early redemption fees to eligible holders.
• Ondo Finance has established a global market alliance with multiple partners, dedicated to the standardization of tokenized securities and on-chain capital markets.
• Maple launches syrupUSDC on Exponent, allowing users to choose between fixed income or leveraged APY exposure.

AI/DeFAI/AI Agents Field

• SendAI announces that Agent Kit now supports OpenAI Agents SDK, enhancing the capabilities of Solana agents.
• Nodepay has launched an upgraded mobile application, adding features such as data earnings collection, participation in mobile Signals, and insights on $NC rewards.
• Hey Anon released Build 1.6 version, adding Meme creation tool, high leverage futures trading, and automatic purchase feature.

DePIN/Infrastructures Sector

• Roam announces that the number of global nodes has exceeded 5 million.
• The Graph announces that Olas is utilizing subgraphs to provide reliable data support for AI agents.
• Wormhole launches funding program for WIP-3 governance proposal to accelerate ecosystem growth.
• Solayer has launched a referral rewards program for the Emerald Card.
• io.net announced the launch of Total Network Earnings (TNE), with all transactions flowing through Solana.
• Gradient has launched Parallax, the first fully distributed large language model inference and service engine.
• Pyth brings the largest stock trading data in the UK on-chain.
• Aethir collaborates with kluster.ai to showcase the advantages of decentralized infrastructure.
• sns.sol collaborates with Nexy AI to provide task rewards, including .sol domain names.
• DIA announces that the $DIA mainnet staking is about to launch.
• Ankr provides high-performance RPC infrastructure support for DogeOS.
• Helium announces a $50 million funding program to support ecosystem builders and deployers.

Gaming/NFT/Social Finance

• A certain NFT trading platform announced the provision of 5 million $ME to the community treasury for various ecological developments.
• Yield Guild Games has launched the "My Points" page, making it easier for users to track YGG points and rewards.
• STEPN GO launched the GGUSD stablecoin backed by U.S. Treasury bonds.

Potential Projects

• Demether has established a partnership with M^0 to acquire powerful building blocks.
• Spicenet collaborates with Hemi to provide full-featured portfolio services.
• Blockdaemon launches Earn Stack, an integrated toolkit providing compliant staking and DeFi rewards for institutions.