News with the tag "Lightspeed Newsletter"

Jito's BAM upgrade aims to enhance Solana apps by introducing programmable plugins for revenue generation and improving transaction processing.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins announces 'Project Crypto', a Commission-wide initiative to move financial markets onchain, signaling a shift in regulatory stance towards crypto and aiming to keep the US at the forefront of internet capital markets.

Pipe Network introduces Firestarter Storage, a decentralized CDN solution for Solana developers, offering a full-stack alternative to centralized services like Cloudflare and AWS.

Orca has launched Wavebreak, a 'human-first' Solana token launchpad designed to prevent bots and snipers, amid increasing competition in Solana's DEX sector.

The article highlights five significant events in the Solana ecosystem in 2025, including strategic moves by projects like Raydium and pump.fun, a high-profile memecoin launch by Trump, and key developments in Solana's technology and governance.

DeFi Development Corp and Upexi are aggressively accumulating Solana (SOL) tokens through equity-fueled strategies, aiming to increase their crypto-denominated reserves and per-share value.

Sanctum, a Solana liquid-staking startup, has acquired Ironforge in an all-cash deal to expand into transaction infrastructure, moving beyond its focus on liquid staking tokens.

Solana's network experienced slower block times in June due to validators delaying block production to maximize staking rewards, prompting potential fixes from key stakeholders and protocol-level proposals.

Solana's price surged alongside Bitcoin as market risk appetite returned, driven by macroeconomic factors and crypto-specific developments.

Solana's Firedancer client, a high-performance blockchain implementation by Jump, faces significant engineering challenges, including conformance issues with the existing Agave client and complications from Anza's proposed consensus rewrite, Alpenglow.