For the week ending August 26, 2026, Solana led memecoin trading volume across major crypto chains with $5.2 billion, capturing 85% of the market. This outpaces Robinhood Chain, which managed $389 million in the same period after a strong launch in July. Solana's mature infrastructure and tools like Pump.fun provide a liquidity advantage, attracting traders despite Robinhood Chain's initial hype around tokenized stocks. The data highlights Solana's ecosystem depth and loyal user base as key factors in reclaiming its memecoin dominance.
Solana's network economics have improved, with token holder net income exceeding $400,000 for two consecutive weeks as SOL traded near $109 on October 11. This marks a recovery after three weeks of negative results, indicating that network activity g...
Solana (SOL) finalized a network upgrade on October 9, reducing its target slot time from 400 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds through a staged process. This change aims to speed up transaction confirmations and potentially support more efficient tra...
In September, Solana (SOL) saw a significant surge with over 14% price gains and a record 10.7 billion transactions, the highest since May 2025. This growth was supported by a milestone in tokenized stocks on its network, with supply surpassing $780....
On October 11, XRP's coin-margin long positions increased significantly by 12 percentage points to 78.32%, while Ethereum's long positions declined in both coin-margin and USDT-margin markets. Bitcoin and Solana also saw notable increases in long pos...
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse expressed strong confidence in XRP, highlighting its fast transaction times, low costs, and growing adoption by financial institutions. He owns a significant amount of XRP but did not disclose specifics, and also holds Et...
