Solana
Every story this desk has filed under Solana, most recent first.
Most Tokenized Stock Trading Happens When the Stock Market Is Shut
Cointelegraph reports that the bulk of tokenized equity activity on Solana and BNB Chain falls outside US market hours, in a sector it puts at close to $3.3bn.
Two Solana DeFi Firms Merge and Say They Want to Finance Power Plants
Orca, a Solana decentralised exchange, and the lending protocol Loopscale are combining as Formation, a New York company aiming at AI, energy, robotics and defence assets and eventually regulated US markets.
Securitize Puts Twelve US Stocks on Solana, Backed One for One
Securitize has launched share-backed tokens for Apple, Nvidia, Tesla and nine other names, trading first on its own Solana-based platform with dividends, voting rights and USDC settlement. NYSE and OKX-ICE venues are described as planned.
Solana Publishes a Delivery-Versus-Payment Standard Built With Bank Input
An open-source program lets two institutions swap an asset and its payment in one atomic transaction, with input from J.P. Morgan, according to reports of the launch.
Robinhood Chain Holds Second Place in Tokenized Stock Balances, Behind BNB Chain
Token Terminal counts 4.3 million tokenized-stock holder balances across chains, with Robinhood Chain on 1.3 million and Solana on 997,000. The metric counts balances, not people.
Kraken Lends Out Tokenized Nvidia and Moves the Collateral Off Ink
The exchange's new xStocks vaults put tokenized equities and ETFs to work in DeFi lending markets, targeting up to 2 percent a year, and the collateral leaves Ink for Solana to do it.
Pump.fun Now Lets You Price a New Coin in Tesla, and 93 Pairs Are Live
The launchpad opened quote assets beyond SOL and USDC on Wednesday, including tokenized Nvidia, Tesla and the S&P 500. Half the revenue from the new pairs is routed to a buyback-and-burn contract.
The Stock-Paired Launchpad Trade Jumps Chains, and Solana Now Has One Too
StonkFun, a Solana launchpad that pairs new tokens against stock exposure, integrated with Raydium's LaunchLab on Saturday. Its STONK token rose 250 percent to a $140m market capitalisation, according to The Block.
Terminals Turned Over $1bn in a Day, and 91% of the Leader's Trades Settled on One Chain
Trading terminal volume crossed a billion dollars on 2 September for the first time since January 2025, with GMGN taking almost half of it, The Defiant reported. Nearly all of GMGN's flow cleared on Robinhood Chain.
Schwab Adds Three Tokens to a Platform It Opened in May, Without Saying When
Charles Schwab will extend its retail crypto service beyond bitcoin and ether to Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink. No launch date has been given for the three.
Solana's Real-World Asset Pile Passes $4bn as Holder Count Clears 350,000
Tokenized real-world assets on Solana have reached a reported $4bn, with more than 350,000 holders, per Crypto Briefing. The holder number is the harder one to manufacture.