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An unmerged frontend fix must replace live-stake math with the constitution’s one-third snapshot test before epoch 1021. The post Solana’s first governance vote nears with a live 60% quorum display error appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Solana reduced its slot time for the first time since genesis as it works toward a 200-millisecond target aimed at reducing network latency. Solana reduced its slot time to 350 milliseconds, marking the first such reduction since the inception of the network, according to the Solana Foundation’s vice president of technology, Jacob Creech. “We’re in a new era of 350ms. Next stop, 300ms,” Creech said in a Friday X post. Average slot times on Solana stood at 360ms at press time, down from the network’s original 400ms target, according to the Solana slot time explorer. Read more

[PRESS RELEASE – Panama City, Panama, August 21st, 2026] Finassets.io, a crypto payment gateway for businesses, has added USDC (SOL) to its Back Office, giving merchants a cost-effective network for stablecoin payments. Solana is among the fastest, lowest-cost networks for settling USDC today, and Finassets, a B2B crypto payment infrastructure provider, has added support for […]

Legacy PoH and TowerBFT paths were out of scope, and no paper-specific implementation review is public. The post Solana’s 50,000 SOL security contest did not cover a clock attack disclosed months earlier appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Three years of development have just become a live production system. Meta AI predicts that changes the argument entirely, and the price prediction places Solana at $180 to $250 by the end of 2026, with a $210 base case from $83 today.The framing matters as much as the numbers. Meta AI calls this bull case […] The post Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI Predicts a Price for Solana By The End of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

The draft cuts per-slot limits as slots shorten, squeezing leader handoffs and off-chain timing without raising the theoretical CU-per-second ceiling. The post Solana is slashing per-block compute limits so its new 350ms speed boost doesn’t overload the network appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Stake-weighted approval could authorize a direction, but no target, legal buyer, ownership structure or operating authority has been named. The post Yakovenko wants Solana to mint SOL to buy a company, but who would own it? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The non-custodial cross-chain swap engine connects Canton’s institutional tokenized-asset markets with liquidity and trading activity across major public blockchains. Interstice Digital has launched a cross-chain swap engine with FalconX connecting the Canton Network with Ethereum, Solana and Robinhood Chain.  According to Tuesday’s announcement, the non-custodial engine allows assets to be swapped across the four networks without Interstice taking custody or executing transactions on users’ behalf.  FalconX, a digital asset prime brokerage serving institutional investors, provides liquidity for the engine, which is designed to connect Canton’s institutional markets with assets and trading activity on public blockchains, giving users a route between tokenized assets on Canton and liquidity on networks such as Ethereum and Solana. Read more

Anza’s 50,000 SOL ceiling depends on severity, while moving eligibility and duplicate rules put the filing risk on researchers. The post Solana’s Alpenglow bug hunt charges researchers 0.5 SOL to report flaws appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Shareholders approved the vast capacity after the former BIT Mining’s NYSE suspension, but no specific use or exact post-consolidation share count was disclosed. The post Solana treasury firm cuts shares 700-for-1 but leaves room for nearly 100 billion more appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The first slot-time gates were still pending, while the 90% rent cut and 4,096-byte transactions lacked confirmed starts. The post Solana’s Agave 4.2 activation target arrives with mainnet feature gates still pending appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Oxbridge supplied $744,623 to T20 and T42 while third parties provided $37,143, and filings do not disclose the purchaser mix for three HCI-linked placements. The post Inside the Solana reinsurance sale where parent company Oxbridge supplied 95% of public token demand appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Grayscale's July 17 SEC filings said its Ethereum and Solana staking ETFs would convert staking rewards to cash and distribute them to shareholders at least quarterly, with the changes expected around Aug. 7. Solana and Ethereum are each weighing protocol changes that would reduce that income at the source. Solana developers want to accelerate disinflation […] The post Wall Street finally turned staking into a dividend, now Ethereum and Solana want to shrink it appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The paper trail instead reveals Binance pricing failures, on-chain ADL and a disclosure gap regulators have yet to close. The post Crypto crash liquidations face massive data gap as public records contradict $18B Solana claim appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Restaked rewards did not supply operating cash, while asset sales, a divestiture and equity financing supported the quarter. The post Solana treasury earns $2.5M in staking rewards but had to sell equity to raise $12M in cash for operations appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bank Leumi customers will be able to buy, hold and sell three major cryptocurrencies directly through the bank’s investment app beginning in early 2027. Israel’s Bank Leumi has partnered with Galaxy Digital to let customers trade Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and Solana (SOL) through the bank’s investment platform, with the service expected to launch in early 2027. The companies said Friday that customers of Leumi and Pepper, its mobile banking arm, will be able to buy, hold and sell the three cryptocurrencies through a dedicated section of the Leumi Trade app. Leumi and Galaxy said the rollout would make Leumi the first Israeli bank to offer digital asset trading services to customers. Leumi will use GalaxyOne Institutional for trading and related services, while Galaxy’s custody infrastructure platform, formerly known as GK8, will support the bank’s digital asset infrastructure. Read more

Solana’s proposed fee overhaul would make resource-heavy transactions more expensive while cutting costs for simpler activity, and it increases the amount of SOL burned. Solana is preparing to change how it charges for computing resources on the network. Solana Improvement Document (SIMD-0553) would make its most resource-intensive users pay more while cutting the costs for simpler transactions. As a bonus, it would increase SOL’s burn rate in stages — and one day could even help make it deflationary. Cavey, a researcher at Solana infrastructure firm Temporal and author of the proposal, tells Magazine that fees currently don’t reflect the real costs: Read more

Cash fell to $4.5 million while Galaxy loans reached $120 million and 52.7% of reported SOL equivalents were pledged. The post Multicoin exits the $1.65 billion Solana treasury company it helped launch eight months ago appeared first on CryptoSlate.

6th Man Ventures co-founder Mike Dudas says Solana’s infrastructure could carry crypto’s next wave.

The company retired $3.5 million of principal for $2.3 million while issuing about 478,000 shares to fund operating costs. The post Solana treasury company shutters its SOL accelerator as a $27 million quarterly reversal forces deep cuts appeared first on CryptoSlate.