what's solana?
Solana is a high-performance blockchain platform designed for fast, low-cost transactions and scalable decentralized applications, using a unique proof-of-stake and proof-of-history consensus mechanism. Founded by Anatoly Yakovenko, it supports vibrant ecosystems for DeFi, NFTs, and gaming with seamless developer tools and energy-efficient operations. The network emphasizes accessibility, enabling builders to create innovative dApps in a decentralized environment.
Prediction market beta launches; performance, hackathon, and THORChain integration advance.
Reached an all-time high price of $293 in January 2025.
Solana ETFs recorded a 7-day net outflow of 208,067 SOL ($17.69M) as of February 9, 2026.
Hosts "Solana After Hours" side event with promotional domain registration discount running through 2026-02-28.
MagicBlock established a $100,000 Ecosystem Fund to support real-time Solana projects through investments, hackathons, and grants.
Solana ETFs experienced $12.07M (142,052 SOL) in outflows on February 9, 2026, marking the second-largest outflow event on record.
Integrated with xStocks to enable borrowing, lending, and yield generation on tokenized stocks through its DeFi infrastructure.
Featured in a daily crypto news summary thread on February 9th, 2026, highlighting Blowfish as an AI Agent Launchpad on Solana among new projects.
Selected by Ripple Custody as staking infrastructure provider alongside Figment to enable institutional staking access on Solana and Ethereum networks.
Holds a sharp rebound in price while retail interest remains subdued.
Integrated with Hyperlane's cross-chain routing layer to enable private movement of SOL alongside ETH, WBTC, and ALEO tokens to Aleo network.
Top RPC and API provider Helius removes agent onboarding friction by letting AI agents automatically get their own API keys.
Participates in "Institutional Capital X Solana RWAs" panel discussion featuring Nest, Anchorage Digital, Synthesys, Superteam SG, and Plume on 2026-02-11.
Solmate, holding over 1.2M SOL, scrapped merger with Rockaway_X.
Described as "the AWS of crypto - computational layer for retail financial transactions" by Electric Capital Co-Founder.
Bridged over $100 million to Solana, including $50 million from Ethereum, in the 7 days ending February 9, 2026, with strong stablecoin inflows February 2-8, 2026.
Ondo Global Markets offers over 200 tokenized US stocks and ETFs on Solana and Ethereum.
Launched XAUm tokenized gold from Matrixdock on Raydium, with each token representing 1 oz of LBMA-accredited gold, redeemable in Asia on February 9, 2026.
Circle minted 250,000,000 USDC on Solana on February 9, 2026.
Trades at $83.89 following a 5.08% decline on February 9, 2026.
Recorded US$8.2 million in inflows to digital asset exchange-traded products during the week ending February 8, 2026.
Integrated with SushiSwap multichain aggregator on February 9, 2026, enabling Solana token trading and SOL to EVM chain swaps.
Transaction activity reaches all-time highs.
Hosted "Solana Accelerate APAC" side event at Consensus HK conference on February 11, 2026.
Recorded $140.6K in netflows for USELESS token, $119.4K for TRUMP, $112.3K for PENGUIN, $74.4K for FARTCOIN, and $47.9K for BAN in the 24-hour period ending February 9, 2026.
Hosts Consumer Day conference in Hong Kong on February 10, 2026, featuring over twenty founders presenting on consumer crypto applications and infrastructure.
SOL spot ETFs recorded net inflows of $2.94M during the week ending February 9, 2026.
SushiSwap integrates with Solana on February 9, 2026.
Hosts Solana Breakout event February 10-12, 2026.
Has linear token unlocks with daily unlock amount exceeding $1 million over the next 7 days (from 2026-02-09 to 2026-02-16).
Achieved approximately $579M in total weekly volume for BTC on Solana, up from approximately $307M the previous week.
Helium, a DePIN project on Solana, reached 2.9 million daily active users.
Launched an AI Agent hackathon with hundreds of thousands in prizes for integrating the OpenClaw agent framework with crypto applications, included in an AI Agent hackathon tracker.
T54ai rolls out agentic credit lines on Solana.
MoltdotID now provides .molt domains on Solana for agent ID.
Agents are now minting NFTs using Metaplex on Solana.
Reached nearly $1 billion in total value of foreign tokens (bridged assets from other chains) circulating on the network, with Bitcoin representing approximately $700 million of this total.
Solana Ventures invested in an unnamed parent company developing a project set to launch mainnet in the week of February 8, 2026.
Placed in top 6 of Colosseum agent hackathon with BasedMereum project, building a protocol with smart contracts, SDK, explorer, and integrations with 10+ projects, committing 500 reasoning proofs onchain.
Reached $0.5 billion in USDC minted on the network.
Recorded SOL spot ETF outflows of $8.9M in the week ending February 7, 2026, with BSOL accounting for $8.6M.
Forward Industries (FWDI) holds 7 million SOL with an average acquisition cost of $232, representing the largest publicly traded Solana treasury position with nearly $1 billion in unrealized losses.
Averages 2,000 transactions per second.
Stablecoin transaction volume increased 400% since the start of 2026.
Hot Potato meme coin social experiment launched on devnet, featuring a bonding curve with minting/burning mechanism and a 0.01% creator transfer fee, where top 20% holders by amount and hold time must delegate WSOL to a central PDA before transferring.
Integrated with Klarna to enable "Buy Now, Pay Later" purchasing option for SOL tokens in the United States.
Launched prediction market beta in February 2026, powered by Arcium MPC with encrypted bets to prevent front-running.
SIMD-0332 went live on testnet at epoch 908, reducing ChaCha rounds used in Turbine weighted shuffle from 20 to 8, requiring at least Agave v3.1.0 and FD v0.806.30106 for validators.
WSOL experienced a depeg event on February 5th, 2026, causing losses for automated trading bots.
Solana Mobile Hackathon (MONOLITH) by Radiants attracted over 200 developer signups to compete for $125,000 in prizes.
THORChain integration is scheduled to launch soon, enabling cross-chain swaps and affiliate revenue opportunities.
Circle minted $1.25 billion USDC in the 24 hours ending February 6, 2026.
USDT supply crossed $3 billion for the first time, reaching a record availability level.
Achieved median transaction fees of $0.000487 on February 5, 2026, the lowest across all major chains.
ENS continues to support address resolution for Solana alongside Bitcoin and other major chains, as confirmed in ENSv2 update on February 6, 2026.
Maintained 734 consecutive days of uptime as of February 9, 2026.
Ranked second in the top 20 trending coins on CoinGecko for the week.
Dropped to $67 after a 46.7% crash, its lowest price since December 2023, with sentiment reaching 84% amid outsized selling pressure as leverage unwound during a broader market drawdown.
Leads all L1 and L2 chains in weekly DApp revenue and DEX volume, and has the highest trading volume and TVL among the 17 chains supported by Orderly Network.
Polymarket expanded to Solana and can be accessed via Jupiter.
Integrated with Polymer Labs for cross-chain value movement between EVM chains, Solana, and Tron.
Sharps Technology (NASDAQ: STSS), a Solana treasury company holding over 2 million SOL, announced a partnership with BitGo to use custody services and Solana validator for treasury optimization.
Huma Finance surpassed $10 billion in PayFi transaction volume on Solana, representing 3.4x year-over-year growth from $2.9 billion.
Integrated with Birdeye for Smart Money tracking of approximately 30,000 high-performance wallets in real-time, showing inflows, positioning, and rotation data.
Surpasses Ethereum in 7-day perpetual futures trading volume as of February 5, 2026.
Leads all L1 and L2 chains in 24-hour DApp revenue and DEX volume as of February 5, 2026.
xStocks TVL reached a new all-time high of approximately $5.46M on the Solana ecosystem.
Integrated with SafePal wallet via SwapKit, enabling native SOL swaps for SafePal's 25 million users across 200+ regions.
Solana Seeker sold over 150,000 units.
Sold 334,634 SOL ($31.19M) at $93 over the past 4 days to repay loans as part of a larger position liquidation.
Partners with MediaTek, FxTec, and Trustonic to develop hardware integration kits that make Solana Mobile Stack available on other Android devices powered by MediaTek chipsets, which power over 46% of Android devices globally.
Kyle Samani stepped down from Multicoin Capital, transitioning to an advisor position.
Whale 9bcN purchased $10,000,000 worth of SOL.
Made documentation LLM-ready, enabling developers to access any docs page in plain-text version by adding .md to the URL.
Recorded $154B in stablecoin transaction volume over the last 30 days, representing 13% of all stablecoin economic activity across chains (excluding wash trading and bot flows).
Step Finance suffered a security breach resulting in $27.3 million in SOL being unstaked and stolen through a compromised executive email account.
85% of blocks produced on January 30th contained a DFlow trade transaction.
Lambda DeFi integrated SQD Cloud Portal to power its Solana DeFi intelligence, portfolio tracking, and analytics features.
Accounted for more than 80% of X402 transaction volume during the week ending approximately February 4, 2026.
Recorded $20 billion in RWA transfer volume on Ethereum in January 2026, accounting for 83% of the total $24 billion RWA transfers volume across all chains, with Solana coming in second with less than one-tenth of Ethereum's volume.
Chainflip Lending launched with support for SOL as one of five collateral assets (alongside BTC, ETH, USDC, and USDT).
SOL ETFs recorded a 1-day net inflow of 13,901 SOL ($1.32 million) and a 7-day net outflow of 3,550 SOL ($337,000).
SNS hosts "Bing Sutt Side Night" as a Consensus side event with MonsterBlock in Hong Kong on 2026-02-10.
is available for trading ZAMA futures with up to 10x leverage on WOOFi Pro.
is included in NX8, a digital token index tracking eight of the largest L1s, launched through a partnership between Nansen and OpenDelta.
Received backing from Solana Ventures in Neuko's $1.1M preseed funding round.
Trader 0x152e opened a new 20× short position on 227,635 SOL worth $22 million.
Processed over 150 million transactions, reaching an all-time high.
A whale withdrew 100,000 SOL from Bybit and transferred it to staking.
569,000 SOL was sent to Binance and 599,000 SOL was sent by Wintermute on February 3, 2026.
Sanctum holds approximately 2.5% of circulating SOL supply and ranks 3rd in TVL on Solana.
Standard Chartered revised its 2026 SOL price target to $250 and its 2030 forecast to $2,000, projecting a shift from memecoins to stablecoin-based micropayments as the next dominant use case.
Hush protocol launches a privacy layer enabling users to shield JitoSOL and earn yield while keeping onchain activity private.
Added to the Grayscale CoinDesk Crypto 5 ETF alongside BTC, ETH, and XRP, with BNB being added to expand the fund.
Achieved 68.9% of SOL supply staked.
Y Combinator enables founders in its Spring 2026 batch to receive approximately $500,000 funding in USDC stablecoins with payouts supported on Solana and Ethereum blockchains.
Achieved $261 million TVL on Solana for ONDO tokenized assets.
Expanded role at Solana Foundation to support founders across the ecosystem with broader scope, while continuing to support Solana Mobile.
Tokenized assets on Solana recorded their highest monthly volume ever in January 2026.
Over $380 million bridged from other chains to Solana in January 2026, including more than $140 million from Ethereum.
BSOL (Bitwise) Solana ETF records daily inflow of $3.4 million on February 3rd, 2026.