Solana completed Q2 2026 with zero downtime for the ninth consecutive quarter, maintaining a median slot duration of 400 milliseconds and processing 25.3 billion transactions, vastly outpacing Ethereum's 200 million. The network's fees remain sub-cent, supporting high-frequency use cases despite a drop in fee revenue share for validators. Upcoming upgrades, including Alpenglow for faster block finality and Firedancer for higher throughput, promise to enhance performance further. Solana's stable and affordable network is attracting significant institutional activity and could reshape latency-sensitive applications once upgrades deploy.
Russia's Moscow Exchange (MOEX) will launch perpetual futures contracts for XRP alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and TRON on September 22. These contracts, quoted in USD but settled in Russian rubles, allow qualified investors to gain price expos...
Solana (SOL) is showing strong momentum in October, leading large-cap altcoins with a 9% weekly gain and breaking key resistance levels. Its relative demand is increasing compared to Ethereum and Bitcoin, supported by fresh institutional inflows into...
Solana's price surged over 10% to a seven-month high above $110, driven by increased institutional and retail demand. Derivatives open interest jumped 18%, signaling new leveraged positions, while the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF crossed $1.1 billion i...
TON Mini-Apps on Telegram have reached 100 million monthly active users, highlighting significant adoption of this platform feature. This milestone reflects growing user engagement and the expanding ecosystem within Telegram. The achievement may boos...
Solana has reduced its block time from 300 to 250 milliseconds, marking the third reduction since August 2026 as part of the SIMD-0525 plan. This 17% faster block production means blocks arrive more frequently but carry proportionally less data, so o...
