Reached $4.25 billion total USDC minted on the network in 2026 as of January 14th, including $1 billion minted in an 8-hour period.

Was the most bought/bridged to token last week according to market data.

BAM crossed 60 million SOL in total stake.

Global hackathon dates scheduled for April 6 to May 11, 2026 and September 28 to November 2, 2026.

GitHub development activity events increased by 73.5% over the past week.

Applications on Solana host approximately $30 billion in total value locked, representing a 10x increase since January 2024.

NASDAQ-listed Defi Dev Corp allocated treasury funds into Solstice Finance's YieldVault on Solana.

FTX/Alameda estate transferred approximately $16M worth of SOL, depleting most of its SOL holdings.

Into.space integrated Solana as its blockchain platform for prediction markets.

Zama plans to launch its confidentiality layer on Solana in 2026.

Upexi Treasury, holding 2M SOL, entered into a $36M private convertible note agreement with Hivemind Capital in exchange for locked SOL, aiming to increase holdings to over 2.4M SOL.

Solana Policy Institute urged the SEC to distinguish between centralized exchanges and non-custodial DeFi software, arguing developers should not be regulated as intermediaries.

Shipped Firedancer client in 2025 to improve reliability and throughput.

Three wallets opened $3.2M in long positions on perpetual futures markets.

Recorded $10.67 million net inflows in spot ETFs on January 12, 2026.

classified as a non-ancillary asset under proposed legislation based on inclusion in exchange-traded products as of January 1, 2026, exempting it from certain disclosure requirements

launched instant private trading powered by Jupiter Exchange

For the first time since June 2025, an onchain token exceeded $100 million market cap, with multiple tokens simultaneously exceeding $80 million.

Wyoming's FRNT stablecoin went live on Solana.

Sponsors Consensus Hong Kong conference as a 5 Block Sponsor in February 2026.

Supports direct trading with USD1, a new payment or settlement integration.

Awarded a bounty to a community member, increasing awareness through recognition.

A Solana token for @PsyopAnime on Pumpfun achieved approximately $20 million in volume on January 12, 2026.

Trading sprint event on Cube exchange running from January 12, 2026 at 21:00 UTC to January 13, 2026 at 21:00 UTC with $30,000 prize pool for SOL trading.

Trojan, a Telegram trading bot with over $28 billion in cumulative trading volume and 2.5 million users, launched a browser-based onchain trading terminal on Solana with trading tools, automation features, and a gamified rewards system.

Ben Coverston and Matt Hougan are scheduled to speak at Solana Breakout event.

Over $68 million bridged from other chains in the last 7 days, including over $40 million from Ethereum.

Step Finance portfolio dashboard will be replaced with a staking page on 2026-01-13, with the primary team migrating focus to Remora Markets.

Huma Finance convened industry leaders at the Singapore PayFi Summit.

Reached all-time high stablecoin market cap of $15 billion.

Sharps Technology (STSS) and Coinbase Institutional launched a jointly supported institutional-grade validator on the Solana network on January 12, 2026.

Conducted an emergency network update that critics described as secret.

Reclaimed the #1 position by weekly network revenue after 11 weeks in the week ending January 12, 2026.

Generated more DEX volume than all other chains combined in the 24-hour period ending January 12, 2026.

Achieved 453.5M transactions in the past 7 days, representing a 17% increase.

New weekly wallets created declined from 30.2M in November 2024 to 7.3M currently.

Morgan Stanley filed for spot SOL trusts, representing a potential institutional investment vehicle.

Has linear token unlocks with daily amounts exceeding $1 million scheduled for the period from January 12 to January 19, 2026.

Offers a 10% p.a. rewards boost for the first 10,000 users who allocate $100+ of SOL to DeFi Yield on Crypto.com on January 12, 2026, with a minimum 30-day staking requirement.

Head of Product at X revealed holding a large position in SOL tokens.

X (Twitter) teased interactive Solana tags for instant charts and news.

Reached 17.4M active addresses over the past week, representing a 20% increase.

Real-world assets on Solana reached $1 billion.

Thorchain will integrate Solana for native cross-chain swaps.

Recorded lower 30-day stablecoin inflows than BNB Chain over the past month period.

Open-source tool gg-program-resurrect released to reconstruct old program binaries from upgrade buffer writes for historical replays.

Captured over 98% ($10 million) of launchpad revenue in the seven days preceding January 10, 2026.

Tether's Legacy Mesh integrated with Solana to unify $175 billion in global USDT liquidity.

TRENCHES social platform announces upcoming launchpad integration with Solana.

Gemini added SOL/USD as a margin trading pair with up to 5× leverage for eligible clients.

Ranger Finance raised $86 million through an ICO on MetaDAO, which was 14× oversubscribed.

Has 153,654,600 holders.

Has approximately 431 million SOL currently staked across the network, representing a total staked value of around $58.7 billion USD.

Included in the Nasdaq CME Crypto Index, a market-cap-weighted benchmark launched by Nasdaq and CME Group on 2026-01-10 that tracks seven major cryptocurrencies for institutional investors.

Rent reduction proposal approved with a 50% cut scheduled to be implemented.

MagicBlock's ephemeral rollups deliver sub-50ms latency and gasless sessions, settling back to Solana.

Wallet 7Z4KKD withdrew 80,000 SOL ($10.87M) from Binance on January 10, 2026 after being dormant for 1 year.

Released validator client version v3.0.14 with critical patches, recommended for general use by all mainnet-beta validators (both staked and unstaked).

Will be supported by IBC v2 through new light clients as part of IBC's 2026 roadmap expansion into a general connectivity layer.

JitoBAM client gained 91 new validators representing 3.7% of network stake following the BAM subsidy program introduction via JIP-31, becoming the second largest Solana client by validator count.

Ranks #1 in app revenue for the 9th consecutive day in 2026 as of January 9th.

Processed 8 times more transactions daily than any other blockchain for the past 6 months as of January 9, 2026.

Reached 3.4 million monthly stablecoin addresses in December 2025, up from 1.8 million in December 2024.

bbSOL experienced $1.08M in net inflows over 24 hours on January 9, 2026, representing a 166% day-over-day increase.

Raydium has achieved $1.5B TVL in the DEX category on Solana.

Privacy Hack hackathon starts on 2026-01-12 with $70,000 in prizes across 3 tracks for building privacy-focused applications.

LI.FI launched a Solana validator in December 2025.

$LSD platform launched on Solana, positioning itself as a staking platform and gateway to the ecosystem via its native token.

Whale 0xDAeF deposited 8.09M USDC into Hyperliquid and placed limit orders to buy 59,458 SOL (worth $8M) at prices between $133.88 and $135.

Hosting Solana Accelerate event at Consensus Hong Kong on February 11, 2026, focused on APAC region growth with founders, institutions, and policymakers.

Generated revenue that was 40% lower than Ethereum's revenue in Q4 2025, with vote fees contributing almost 16% of total revenue.

Spot ETFs recorded net inflows of $13.64 million on January 8, 2026.

Anchor V2 development is underway, with the first step replacing solana-program with pinocchio.

HTX exchange reports 101% reserve ratio for SOL as of January 1st, 2026.

Pendle expansion to Solana is coming soon.

Received 70,185 social mentions over the 24-hour period ending on 2026-01-08, ranking third among all cryptocurrencies by social mentions.

CASH stablecoin holder count on Solana surpasses 30,000.

24-hour perpetuals trading volume surpassed Ethereum's volume.

Memecoin trading volumes collapsed to 2023 lows.

Token fell 3% to $134 on January 7, 2026.

Annual 2025 DEX volume reached $1.5 trillion.

Season 1 snapshot completed with over 100,000 participants, 9 million transactions, and $2.6 billion in total volume

Bitwise Solana ETF (BSOL) recorded net inflows of $2 million on January 7, 2026.

Has maintained network uptime for 700 consecutive days without an outage as of January 7, 2026.

Solana Mobile announced SKR token generation event scheduled for 2026-01-21, with 20% of supply allocated to users and developers.

Wyoming's FRNT stablecoin, the first U.S. state-issued stablecoin, launched on Solana on 2026-01-08.

Upexi (UPXI) holds near 2.2 million SOL as part of their treasury strategy for 2026.

Stablecoin market cap increased 200% in 2025, from $5B to $15B at peak.

Space, the first leveraged prediction market on Solana, raised $10.5M+ in its public sale, which was 423%+ oversubscribed, with $2.7M of inflows occurring in the last 24 hours.

TenX protocol is launching on the network with support for BONK token.

Real-time data integration is now supported by TRM Labs for compliance and risk monitoring purposes.

sBTC integration with Wormhole will enable sBTC availability on Solana as a Bitcoin-backed programmable asset.

Ankr expanded Rollup-as-a-Service with Solana SPEs (Service Provider Extensions) support, enabling no-code deployments with crypto payments and deeper customization.

Captured over 67% of bridging demand, exceeding all other chains combined according to deBridge data.

Over 40,000 tokens were launched on the network in the past 24 hours.

Has $1 billion of minted tokenized stocks through XStocks, tradeable only on Kraken.