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According to PR Newswire, J.P. Morgan Asset Management announced on October 22 that its tokenized money market funds MONY and JLTXX are now live on the Solana blockchain and available to eligible U.S. investors. Eligible investors can subscribe and redeem through its institutional trading platform, Morgan Money, and receive their token balances at their own blockchain addresses. MONY is a private fund established under Rule 506(c), launched in December 2025. At that time, J.P. Morgan became the first global systemically important bank to launch a tokenized money market fund on a public blockchain. JLTXX is a U.S.-registered government money market fund, with an investment approach designed to support stablecoin issuers under the framework of the GENIUS Act.
GMX 🫐 posted on X that it has opened the Builder Fees mechanism on Solana, allowing third-party developers to build trading interfaces, route orders, or create automation tools and charge fees from each position order submitted by users. Developers need to publish fee rates on-chain, and traders sign the rate in each order; the fee is added on top of the standard trading fee and calculated based on position changes. For example, when a position is increased by $1,000 and the fee rate is 0.01%, $0.10 is charged, with final settlement to the developer's claim vault. Orders submitted through developer interfaces will use the same liquidity pools, oracle prices, and price impact rules as other orders. Builder Fees apply to market and limit orders for increasing positions, decreasing positions, and stop-loss position reductions, but do not apply to swaps, liquidations, or ADL.
Odaily reports: Fintech company SoFi has launched SoFi Earn (SOFIE), calling it the first tokenized deposit from a nationwide U.S. bank offered to consumers. Each SOFIE corresponds to $1 in SoFi Bank deposits, with holders earning a 4.40% annual percentage yield, and funds covered by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insurance up to applicable limits.Users can convert SOFIE 1:1 into SoFiUSD, then use it to purchase cryptocurrencies within the SoFi app, or transfer U.S. dollars around the clock via blockchain networks. SoFi stated that the product is designed to allow digital dollars to continue generating yield before they are used.SoFi Earn is the fifth crypto product SoFi has launched in under a year. SoFi resumed cryptocurrency trading in late 2025 and currently supports trading of more than 40 tokens; its SoFiUSD is already deployed on Ethereum and Solana and is used to settle all of SoFi's card programs. (Decrypt)
Odaily reports: According to an official announcement, Gate's Futures Meme Zone has launched KIMCHI futures trading, trading bots, and copy trading features. The futures support 1x to 10x long and short positions.It is reported that KIMCHI (Aura Final Boss) is a Meme coin issued on the SOL chain.
Yuga Labs has announced the launch of Mudwater trading card NFTs on the Solana network. According to the official rules, each Bored Ape holder is eligible to receive 10 card packs, and each Mutant Ape holder is eligible to receive 2 card packs. Mudwater card pack trading volume has reached 78.3 ETH.
Bonk Guy posted on X stating that Bitcoin has risen about 3% since yesterday, while ZEC, which focuses on privacy features, has surged 16% over the same period, adding over $3 billion in market capitalization, as the privacy sector becomes a market focal point. He noted that MASK currently has a market capitalization of only about $26 million, yet it is the highest-revenue privacy coin protocol, with protocol trading volume and fees continuing to hit all-time highs, and its Solana version expected to launch within days, which is poised to further boost usage, trading volume, and fee revenue. According to DeFiLlama data, MASK's revenue exceeds the combined revenue of the next 10 privacy protocols. Bonk Guy believes that MASK combines a real product, genuine user demand, growing adoption, and potential catalysts, and remains severely undervalued by the market.
Solana development team Anza announced that the new Solana consensus protocol Alpenglow has officially launched on mainnet-beta, deactivating the existing TowerBFT consensus mechanism. Following the upgrade, network transaction finality time has been drastically reduced from the original 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds, designed to provide performance support for scenarios such as institutional settlement, real-time capital market trading, developer application responsiveness, and decentralized payments for AI agents.
Solana's first major consensus upgrade, Alpenglow, went live on mainnet around 13:54 UTC on Wednesday. The upgrade aims to reduce transaction finality time from approximately 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds, a reduction of roughly 99%.In the first phase of the upgrade, Votor will replace the existing voting and finality confirmation mechanism with direct validator voting and a certificate-based system; subsequent phases will introduce the Rotor block data dissemination protocol, replacing Turbine. At the time the upgrade launched, Solana mainnet transaction finality was 6.6 seconds, with throughput of 4,721 transactions per second.Alpenglow will replace Solana's existing TowerBFT consensus model. Validators are expected to continue developing Agave 4.5, an upgrade plan that would increase the number of accounts supported by versioned transactions from 64 to 96, currently scheduled for launch in December 2026. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily reports: Grayscale has announced the launch of an in-kind investing mechanism, allowing investors to directly deliver eligible digital assets in exchange for shares in Grayscale products. Grayscale stated that this mechanism is expected to reduce the burden on investors of self-custodying assets, lower potential trade execution costs, and make digital assets easier to incorporate into traditional portfolio management. Currently, the mechanism covers 10 products, including Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF (BTC), Ethereum Staking Mini ETF (ETH), Avalanche Staking ETF (GAVA), Chainlink Trust ETF (GLNK), Dogecoin Trust ETF (GDOG), Hyperliquid Staking ETF (HYPG), Solana Staking ETF (GSOL), Sui Staking ETF (GSUI), XRP Trust ETF (GXRP), and Zcash ETF (ZCSH).
According to a Noah announcement, Western Union has selected it as its global stablecoin payment infrastructure provider, deploying an underlying on-chain banking network for the Receiver Redirect service that supports over 60 currencies across more than 200 countries and regions. Built on Western Union’s US dollar stablecoin USDPT (issued by Anchorage Digital Bank on Solana), the service leverages Noah’s infrastructure to handle pre-funding, conversion, and fund disbursements. Users can remit funds through Western Union’s global network of over 500,000 agent locations, while recipients can receive USDPT into their Western Union wallets and store related stablecoin assets via Stablecard.
Odaily reports: Solana will launch its major network upgrade Alpenglow on Wednesday, one of its largest network architecture upgrades since 2020. The upgrade will replace the existing system with a new validator voting mechanism, using off-chain voting and certificate mechanisms to shorten the target transaction finality time to approximately 150 milliseconds—roughly a 40x improvement over the current ~6 seconds.Alpenglow will also eliminate per-vote on-chain voting fees for validators, replacing them with a fixed admission fee of 0.8 SOL per Epoch, which is expected to reduce related costs by approximately 60%. The upgrade previously underwent multiple testnet restarts and was once rolled back due to a migration failure; after a subsequent successful migration, it paved the way for the official launch. The switch is scheduled to begin at Epoch 1064 and will be completed after a transition of 5,000 slots. (CoinDesk)
Odaily reports: Solana-based meme coin Kimchi reached a market cap of $40 million one hour after launch, currently at $38.71 million, with trading volume reaching $23.7 million. Kimchi (@kimchi1x) currently holds 75.32% of the total supply of this meme coin. This trader rarely posts trading records or calls, mainly sharing photos and videos related to lifestyle, travel, luxury cars, and watches.Pump.fun co-founder alon stated that Kimchi is the first person to truly bridge the gap between the crypto industry and popular culture, and the first case of a trader growing into a public celebrity. alon said that Kimchi is helping Pump.fun develop creative direction and drive ecosystem expansion.
According to PRNewswire, Blockchain.com has officially launched its options trading feature, which initially supports seven assets including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), Hyperliquid (HYPE), Avalanche (AVAX), XRP, and TRON (TRX). Users can purchase Call or Put options and select expiration dates and strike prices.
Odaily reports: Real-world asset platform tx has launched the USD stablecoin USTX for use in its wallet and its planned tokenized stock market. Users can mint USTX using USDC from 8 blockchains and redeem it back to USDC, with supported networks including Ethereum, Solana, and Base.Fintech platform Brale is responsible for issuing USTX, managing reserve assets, and executing minting and redemption. tx co-founder and Chief Legal Officer Ashley Ebersole stated that USTX is not a USDC-backed wrapped asset or a synthetic representation of USDC; it uses an independent 1:1 reserve structure through Brale.According to tx's disclosure, each USTX is backed by $1 in assets, with reserves including cash, bank deposits, government money market funds, and short-term U.S. Treasury bills. Eligible USTX users can also earn rewards through the tx wallet program, and Ashley Ebersole said the reward program was designed based on legal advice to comply with the relevant provisions of the GENIUS Act. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily reports: Blockchain security research firm Asymmetric Research has disclosed that Solana's on-chain governance program svmgov previously had a vulnerability: when validators did not participate in voting, independent votes submitted in advance by their delegators might not be counted in the final results. The vulnerability was reported to the Solana Foundation on July 10 and was fixed on mainnet on August 3, earlier than the governance vote on August 24. Based on on-chain data calculations, Asymmetric Research estimates that if the vulnerability had not been fixed, the approval rate of the SGP-0002 proposal, which aims to accelerate the decline in SOL inflation, could have dropped from the actual 67.00% to 66.65%, below the 66.67% passage threshold. The vulnerability was fixed before the vote and did not actually change the proposal's outcome.
Odaily reports: Solana has gone two consecutive years without reporting a mainnet outage. A report from Fidelity's Applied Technology Center (FCAT) notes that its network health has made progress across resilience, economic security, and performance metrics.The report notes that higher staking participation and incentive mechanisms rewarding validator performance underpin Solana's economic security, while low latency, improved scalability, and low-cost transactions also support its adoption at scale.The report also states that staking concentration among a small number of validator identities and operators, as well as concentration in custody and client software, still require continued observation. Jacob Creech, VP of Technology at the Solana Foundation, said that Solana reduced slot times to 350 milliseconds on August 21; the foundation announced plans in June to further reduce this to 200 milliseconds, with three additional 50-millisecond adjustments to follow. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily reports: A Solana Foundation official stated that the U.S. GENIUS Act provides regulatory momentum for enterprises and financial institutions to enter the stablecoin space, and is also one of the important background factors behind Samsung's launch of stablecoin payment services. Samsung has announced that starting in the last week of October, it will support USDC cross-border transfers in Samsung Wallet, initially targeting eligible Galaxy users in the United States and covering approximately 82 million devices. Users can transfer USD stablecoins to compatible crypto wallets within seconds with no transfer fees, and can also send remittances to eligible bank accounts in more than 60 countries and regions. The service will use the Solana and Sui networks as its underlying infrastructure, with licensed stablecoin custodian Bastion providing transfer services and Coinbase Prime serving as sub-custodian responsible for safeguarding USDC assets.
Odaily News: Near Protocol and Sunrise announced on October 15 that NEAR has connected to Solana via Sunrise, and NEAR liquidity is now accessible across Solana wallets, the decentralized exchange Jupiter, Raydium, and trading aggregators.This cross-chain pathway is powered by Near Intents, with NEAR as the first asset onboarded. The partners plan to support more assets and eventually integrate Near Intents directly into Sunrise.Following the announcement, NEAR is trading in the $5.24 to $5.30 range, up approximately 14% over 24 hours; its price has more than doubled over the past 30 days.Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz has joined the Near Foundation Council, where he will contribute to product strategy, market execution, and ecosystem development. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: NEAR Protocol has announced support for users to earn SOL yield through confidential accounts. After users deposit funds into the vault, the vault cannot know their address, and there is no lock-up requirement, allowing redemption or withdrawal at any time. The related vault was deployed by Gauntlet on Kamino.
The Solana Accelerate China Shanghai event was temporarily suspended today, reportedly with around 8 to 9 law enforcement officers on site. Attendees waited outside the venue for over an hour. Organizers subsequently sent a notice stating that the morning agenda has been postponed due to logistical arrangements by the venue. All registered guests will be notified directly once the new schedule is confirmed, and attendees are advised to monitor Luma notifications and email updates. The organizers have not disclosed additional details in the notice as of now.