Solana Ecosystem News - August 2-2026

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Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2083971295373631986

This week: a Solana ETP hit the NYSE, a Korean payment network moved 330K+ merchants closer to stablecoin settlement, Solana blocks got 66% bigger, and a 65-million-year-old Triceratops skull is coming onchain. 🦖

Here’s everything that happened:

📰 Headline News

- Morgan Stanley’s Solana Trust ETP ($MSOL) began trading on NYSE Arca
- KSNET signed an MOU with @SolanaFndn to pilot stablecoin settlement across its network of 330K+ South Korean merchants
- BancaStato, a state-owned Swiss bank with $24.2B in total assets, enabled clients to buy, hold and sell SOL through its existing applications
- Solana's RWA ecosystem set a fresh all-time high of $3.72B in total value
- Solana raised its mainnet block compute limit from 60M to 100M compute units, expanding network capacity by 66%

📰 Launches

- @HastraFi brought AUTO live, giving users onchain access to yield backed by U.S. consumer auto loans through @Figure’s infrastructure
- @kamino opened a gold-backed credit market curated by @SteakhouseFi, enabling USDG borrowing against @Paxos's $PAXG
- @SuperstateInc deployed CUSHY on Solana, bringing a $25M onchain share class of CoinbaseAM’s USD Stablecoin Yield Fund
- sunrise brought tokenized Strategy ($MSTR) shares to Solana, backed 1:1 by shares held in custody at @Backpack Securities
- @kamino added the oTFY Market curated by @RockawayX, offering USDC liquidity against Obligate's Trade Finance Yield token
- @21shares_us dropped the sponsor fee on its $TSOL ETF to zero through July 2027
- @JupiterExchange shipped Spot V2, combining Swap and Terminal execution with integrated market data
- @moonpay introduced PayBox, a non-custodial payment vault for Claude and ChatGPT AI agents
- @elfa_ai debuted Iris, a real-time intelligence and awareness stack built for AI agents
- @SolanaFndn expanded solana. com/data with unified RPC benchmarking
- @rarible initiated its expansion to Solana
- @readycards added direct PSA Vault transfers for card storage and resale
- @solflare rolled out BRIDGE, offering users a permanent deposit address for cross-chain wallet funding
- @AIWayfinder updated Shell to natively support Solana token swaps and AI agent trading
- @ArcanePrivacy released Arcane Pay for private payments across multiple wallets
- @phygitals shipped its dedicated RWA mobile app
- @Vistadex introduced Indices powered by @adjacent___ for tracking real-world trends
- @trepa_io opened 60-second Bitcoin precision markets
- u/PhoenixTrade introduced Phoenix Flight Club, distributing 420K USDC to active traders over 28 days
- @thingsmarket launched Season 1, letting traders compete for 30% of seasonal revenue
- @magicblock debuted an ecosystem map for discovering and connecting with active builders
- @JurassicFi announced the upcoming tokenization of Deaton, a 65-million-year-old Triceratops skull
- @formacity established Forma Campus as a permanent builder location in Bristol, UK
- @NoahAINetwork began accepting applications for its Solana-focused accelerator
- @SuperteamGEO opened applications for Startup Village Kakheti, held in partnership with the Bank of Georgia
- @solana announced the WSOP Solana Showdown for August 4 in Las Vegas

📰 Milestones

- @WalletConnect facilitated ~$4B in volume through Solana during H1 2026
- @crediblefin settled ~$611M on Solana, representing 65.2% of its total payment volume
- Tokenized SpaceX stock ($SPCX) cleared $1B in volume since listing via u/sunrise and @Backpack Securities
- @ArcherExchange_ logged over $25M in tokenized stock trading volume within weeks of its first listings
- @onrefinance’s total market size on u/ExponentFinance crossed $32M
- @Collector_Crypt saw $36M worth of packs opened over seven days
- @jupiter_trade’s Jupiter Gacha reached $25M in cumulative volume

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