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Bitwise’s Matt Hougan said Solana has good odds of winning a larger share of the stablecoin and tokenization market.

Bitwise’s Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan says Solana’s staking ETFs yield generation is a significant drawcard for institutional investors.

The addition of SOL comes amid growing institutional interest in the Solana network, as the community positions it as the hub of internet capital markets.

Plans for the new perpetual DEX come two months after a VanEck report highlighted Hyperliquid’s growth at the expense of Solana and other large chains.

Omnichain versions of Tether’s USDT and XAUT go live on Solana via Legacy Mesh, linking digital dollars and gold across blockchains.

Forward Industries staked its entire Solana treasury into a new validator, immediately joining the network’s top 10.

Bitwise’s Matt Hougan said Solana’s speed and finality make it Wall Street’s top choice for stablecoins and tokenization despite Ethereum’s dominance.

Bitwise’s Hunter Horsley says Solana’s shorter unstaking period gives it an advantage over Ethereum in the race for staking ETFs, as US regulators prepare key decisions in October.

Injective launches onchain pre-IPO perpetuals for companies like OpenAI, offering leveraged exposure and a decentralized alternative to Robinhood’s tokens.

Polkadot community members are showing strong early support for a proposal to launch pUSD, a native algorithmic stablecoin fully backed by DOT tokens.

Jump Crypto has proposed removing Solana’s fixed compute block limit to prioritize high-performance validators to handle complex blocks over suboptimal validators.

The two-week approval forecast follows analyst predictions that additional crypto ETF approvals could be a key catalyst for a broader altcoin season.

The new Solana-based Evo stablecoin pegged to Kazakhstan’s national currency, the tenge, aims to bridge the crypto market with traditional finance.

Polkadot said that under the old tokenomics model, the total supply of DOT could have swelled to more than 3.4 billion tokens by 2040.

The Solana overhaul is expected to decrease transaction finality to 150 milliseconds — increasing the speed by about 100-fold.