Solana Weekly丨SOL ETF officially received DTCC code; Hong Kong listed company makes its first move into Solana

The Solana ecosystem has seen multifaceted development in the past week, covering areas such as capital investment, technology upgrades, and regulatory exploration, further consolidating its influence in the global blockchain industry.

A Hong Kong listed company has invested approximately HKD 2.9 million to acquire 2,440 SOL, becoming the first publicly listed company in the region to strategically invest in the Solana ecosystem, reflecting traditional finance's recognition of Solana. At the same time, a Solana spot ETF product from an asset management company has completed registration with relevant authorities in the United States, with market expectations for its approval reaching 91%, indicating strong interest from institutional investors in Solana.

On a technical level, Solana has launched the LaserStream upgrade, significantly improving the processing efficiency of blocks, transactions, and account data through advanced gRPC streaming technology. This upgrade provides developers with more efficient tools, which helps optimize the performance of real-time applications and further strengthens Solana's leading position in the high-performance blockchain space.

In terms of community collaboration, Solana-related research institutions have united significant projects within the ecosystem to submit proposals for the tokenization of securities to regulatory authorities, aiming to provide clear guidance for the compliant development of the Solana ecosystem and demonstrating the forward-looking efforts of the Solana ecosystem in balancing blockchain technology with regulation.

The following are the recent important developments in various fields of the Solana ecosystem:

DeFi

A certain DEX has launched a reward program with over $200,000 to encourage users to trade and create tokens on its SDK integration platform.

Kamino announces that xBTC is launched on Solana and initiates related growth plans.

Marinade has launched the Master Chef program to recognize and reward loyal community members.

A certain DEX has launched a new feature called Radar on its mobile version, providing users with notification services related to airdrops, DLMM positions, and voting.

stabble collaborates with Kima Network to provide exclusive access to $KIMA rewards for the community.

A certain cross-chain trading platform announced integration with Orbiter Finance to enable fast and secure cross-chain exchanges between major networks.

streamflow has launched an active staking reward mechanism that converts protocol income into staking rewards.

Stronghold announces the integration of $strongSOL with Kamino Lend, supporting deposit and multiplier features to enhance yields.

Unitas Labs announced that $USDU is now live on a certain DEX.

Zenith has completed the audit of Meteora's Dynamic AMM v2 constant product liquidity pool program, and no significant issues were found.

RWA

Usual announces the first wave of "loyalty bonuses", redistributing 6.5 million USUALx from early redemption fees to eligible holders.

Ondo Finance announced the establishment of a global market alliance with multiple partners to standardize tokenized securities and on-chain capital markets.

Maple launched syrupUSDC on Exponent, allowing users to choose between fixed income or leveraged APY exposure.

AI/DeFAI/AI Agents

SendAI announces that Agent Kit now supports the OpenAI Agents SDK, providing proxy loops, handovers, guardrails, and process tracking features for Solana agents.

Nodepay has launched an upgraded mobile application, adding features such as data earnings collection, mobile Signals participation, and $NC rewards insights.

Hey Anon released Build 1.6 version, adding Meme creation tool, high leverage futures trading, and automatic DCA purchase function.

DePIN/Infra

Roam announces that the number of global nodes has surpassed 5 million.

A data query protocol announced that Olas is using its subgraph to provide reliable and consistent data support for AI agents.

A certain cross-chain bridge announced the launch of a funding plan for the WIP-3 governance proposal to accelerate the growth of its ecosystem.

Solayer has launched a referral earning program for the Emerald Card, offering referrers 20% of the emerald points, with no expiration or limits.

io.net announced that the Total Network Earnings (TNE) is now online on-chain, with all transactions flowing through Solana, featuring real-time earnings tracking and $IO buyback functionality.

Gradient launches Parallax, the first fully distributed large language model inference and service engine.

A certain oracle brings the data of the most traded stocks in the UK onto the blockchain.

Aethir announces a collaboration with kluster.ai to demonstrate the advantages of decentralized infrastructure over traditional cloud solutions.

sns.sol collaborates with Nexy AI to provide rewards including .sol domain names and Nexy points for completing simple tasks.

DIA announces that the $DIA mainnet staking is coming soon.

Ankr now provides high-performance RPC infrastructure support for DogeOS, optimized for uptime, latency, and scalability.

Helium announces a $50 million funding program aimed at builders and deployers.

Game/NFT/SocialFi

A certain NFT trading platform announced to provide 5 million $ME for the community treasury, to fund incentives, grants, ecosystem development, and product improvements.

Yield Guild Games has launched the "My Points" page, aimed at tracking YGG points and rewards.

STEPN GO launches the GGUSD stablecoin backed by U.S. Treasury bonds.

Potential Projects

Demether announced a partnership with M^0, which provides powerful building blocks.

Spicenet collaborates with Hemi to provide a full-featured portfolio.

Blockdaemon has announced the launch of Blockdaemon Earn Stack, an integrated institutional toolkit for compliant staking and DeFi rewards.