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Odaily News: Spout Finance announced the completion of a $2 million strategic funding round, with participation from Draper Dragon, Anchorage, Flow Traders, Vessel Capital, Solayer, 2Square, and Bering Waters Group, among others, as well as strategic support from Solana Labs. The project's main business is providing Solana-based DeFi lending services, enabling users to borrow stablecoins such as USDC using their tokenized US stocks as collateral, without paying interest.
Odaily News: Solana ecosystem development company Anza stated that the Alpenglow mainnet beta will activate on October 21, 2026, at 14:50 UTC. Once the upgrade is complete, transaction finality is expected to be reduced from approximately 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds.Alpenglow will replace the existing TowerBFT voting mechanism with Votor, allowing validators to avoid writing every vote on-chain and instead confirm consensus through direct communication aggregated into smaller records. The network is expected to maintain the existing system for approximately 18 minutes before switching to Votor once staked SOL reaches 82% of the validator set.Another component of Alpenglow, Rotor, will adjust how new blocks are distributed among validators, but no activation date has been announced yet. This upgrade includes only Votor, and Solana will temporarily focus on replacing its consensus mechanism. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News - Financial services company Charles Schwab has completed the rollout of direct Bitcoin and Ethereum trading for eligible retail clients. The company manages approximately $13.33 trillion in client assets and has 40.3 million active brokerage accounts.Charles Schwab CEO Rick Wurster stated that the company is gradually rolling out cryptocurrency deposit and withdrawal functionality, and plans to add trading for Solana, Avalanche, and Chainlink by the end of 2026. Currently, transfers support the Bitcoin network and the Ethereum network, and withdrawal addresses must be pre-registered.Schwab Crypto charges a 0.75% trading fee, with a minimum transaction amount of $1 and a maximum of $2 million. Rick Wurster stated that cryptocurrency trading will become one of the new transaction-based revenue streams; the platform is currently not available in New York State, Louisiana, U.S. territories, or international markets. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: Crypto hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has announced the launch of Ledger Agent Intent, available free of charge starting today to all Ledger-compatible signing devices. AI agents can monitor the market and propose portfolio optimization recommendations, and users can review and approve related operations on their Ledger devices, with private keys remaining under user control.Agent Intent will directly integrate with OpenClaw, allowing users to register OpenClaw agents on Ledger Atom devices and authorize operations, with the OpenClaw app to be pre-installed on the devices. The tool also supports the Solana Foundation's Pay.sh, where requests proposed by agents can enter a unified queue for users to sign at a time of their choosing. Ledger has partnered with Venice AI to address privacy concerns and stated that user data will not be used to train third-party models.
Odaily News: The public chain Solana will launch the Alpenglow upgrade on its mainnet at approximately 15:00 (UTC) on October 21, completely replacing its validator consensus system. The upgrade will phase out TowerBFT, with the goal of reducing transaction finality from the current approximately 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds.Alpenglow adopts Votor, which moves vote transactions out of blocks, allowing validators to communicate directly and generate certificates; final confirmation can be achieved in the first round with 80% or more stake support, while support rates between 60% and 80% will enter a second round of voting.After the upgrade, vote transactions will no longer be counted in blocks, and Solana's public transaction count and TPS will drop significantly, but actual activity will not decrease as a result. Ordinary users do not need to take any action, and the Solana Virtual Machine, transaction format, programs, and fees will all remain unchanged.The feature switch will be activated at epoch 1064, and TowerBFT will continue to run for approximately 5,000 slots, or about 18 minutes, after which Alpenglow will take over. Each vote account will need to pay an additional validator admission fee of 0.8 SOL, which will be burned; the launch date of the Rotor upgrade has not yet been announced. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: Ondo Finance has announced that its platform's total value locked (TVL) has surpassed $4 billion, marking a new milestone. Among this, tokenized stocks and ETF assets exceed $1.3 billion, with cumulative holders across its various products surpassing 1 million. Ondo claims it is currently the largest tokenized U.S. Treasury platform.Ondo stated that the platform is expanding from tokenized U.S. Treasuries into asset classes such as stocks, ETFs, portfolios, and private markets. Its Ondo Stocks connects to traditional financial exchange liquidity through a request-for-quote (RFQ) mechanism, and with the support of its wallet and app, enables permissionless transfers of related tokenized assets across Solana, Ethereum, and BNB Chain.
stablecoin payment platform Rain has launched an embedded stablecoin wallet that partners can integrate into their own applications, with services including bank cards, virtual accounts, rewards, fiat on-ramps and off-ramps, and global payouts. The wallet supports 12 blockchains: Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, BNB Chain, Celo, Ethereum, Monad, Plasma, Optimism, Polygon, Solana, and ZKsync. It can hold stablecoins such as USDC and USDT as well as other crypto assets, and can be used for spending at 175 million merchant locations worldwide through bank cards issued by Rain. The non-custodial wallet is now available to Rain partners, while the custodial wallet and stablecoin balance yield features are expected to launch by the end of 2026.
Odaily News: Solana research and development company Anza has announced that Alpenglow will go live on Solana mainnet-beta on October 21 at approximately 22:50 (UTC+8), with the migration completed within a single slot. The upgrade, which took 18 months of development, will replace the TowerBFT consensus protocol that Solana has used since the public network's launch, reducing block finality time from several seconds to about 150 milliseconds. Alpenglow combines the latest consensus research with erasure-coded data dissemination technology and is designed for use cases such as high-frequency trading, institutional financial services, Web3 applications, and the AI agent economy.
据官方消息,跨链互操作性协议 Rome Protocol 宣布推出其原生代币 ROME。该协议旨在连接以太坊虚拟机(EVM)与 Solana,使 Solidity 智能合约能够与 Solana 原生程序及资产实现单笔交易内的原子化结算,其协议底层程序已在 Solana 主网运行并通过 Halborn 审计。
Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Ember, the address associated with SOL treasury company @skyaico (Nasdaq: SKYA) transferred out 468,000 SOL in the past day, worth $51.1 million, of which 218,000 SOL was transferred to multiple CEXs and 250,000 SOL was transferred to institutional service platform BitGo. The latest filing released by SKYA on September 14 showed that the company held more than 2 million SOL in reserves at that time.
Solana 计划于周五 epoch 1053 将目标区块时间降至 200 毫秒,完成自 8 月以来的多次加速升级。
Odaily reports: The Solana blockchain network plans to reduce its target block time from 250 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds when it enters Epoch 1053 on Friday, completing a series of缩短 adjustments that began at 400 milliseconds in August.This upgrade will enable the network to produce 5 blocks per second, while simultaneously lowering the compute cap per block to keep overall throughput roughly unchanged.Faster block production may reduce transaction latency and transaction arbitrage activity, but it will also increase validator voting demands, put pressure on network connectivity, and shorten the transaction validity window. (CoinDesk)
Securitize launches tokenized US stock products like Apple and Tesla on the Solana blockchain, driving its stock price up more than 10% intraday, with integration support from Ripple and Aave.
Odaily News: Crypto information platform Decrypt has launched Decrypt Money Accounts on Solana. Account balances are denominated in USDT and can be used across products including Earn, Swaps, Predictions, and Perps. The platform covers gas and rent fees through fee-payer co-signing, so users do not need to hold SOL or handle network fees.The account uses a self-custody model. Decrypt does not hold users' private keys and cannot execute transactions on their behalf. Users can deposit funds through multiple payment methods. A private key export feature is expected to be available shortly, after which accounts can be connected to any Solana wallet software.Cross-chain operations are handled at the platform's underlying layer. For example, Myriad Predictions markets settle on BNB Chain, yet users can still trade using the same Solana USDT balance without bridging or switching networks. Existing Myriad Wallet users can use the service directly without migration.Decrypt Money Accounts will serve as the underlying channel for The Information Exchange, connecting Decrypt, Myriad, and the upcoming MYR. The platform will subsequently expand prediction markets into instruments such as spot, perpetual futures, and structured event products. (Decrypt)
According to CoinDesk, asset tokenization platform Securitize has announced the launch of tokenized US stock products on the Solana blockchain, with the initial batch covering shares of 12 companies including Apple, NVIDIA, and Tesla. Each token is pegged 1:1 to the underlying actual shares and retains corresponding shareholder rights. Trading supports USDC settlement, with liquidity provided by Jump Trading. Additionally, the product plans to expand in the future to the digital trading platform under the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the OKXICE platform.
Odaily News: Digital asset securitization platform Securitize has brought 12 US stocks, including Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, and Microsoft, onto Solana. The tokens are pegged one-to-one to the underlying stocks and are designed to preserve shareholder rights.Trading will initially launch on Securitize's PropAMM platform, with Jump Trading providing liquidity and RQD supporting clearing, custody, and settlement. Listings on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and OKXICE are planned for later.The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is exploring an innovation exemption for tokenized securities, and the ICE-OKX joint venture is also seeking to launch tokenized stock trading under the US regulatory framework. (CoinDesk)
Solana ecosystem projects Orca and Loopscale have announced the completion of their merger, aiming to provide financing support for the AI, robotics, and defense sectors.
Odaily Report: Blockchain platform Solana has launched x402 batch payment functionality through PayAI Network and BlockRunAI, enabling AI agents to initiate multiple USDC payments and settle them all through a single on-chain transaction.BlockRunAI has already applied this technology to its AI model routing service. The company states that by consolidating multiple model calls into a single USDC settlement, it can save over $20,000 per month in network fees and reduce latency by approximately 10x; its service provides access to over 113 AI models through a single endpoint.Solana development organization Anza stated that the upgrade to ultimately reduce Solana's block time to 200 milliseconds is expected to go live around 15:00 UTC on October 9, having previously been gradually reduced from 400 milliseconds to 350, 300, and 250 milliseconds. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: Solana tokenized silver project Dominion has announced its shutdown. The team stated that a September security incident led to a large amount of SILV being exploited and sold off, followed by a liquidity collapse, loss of operating capital, and damage to market structure. The capital required for rebuilding now exceeds the project's remaining resources. Dominion has allocated most of its remaining liquid funds to a refund plan, allowing eligible pre-attack SILV holders to exit at $63 per token. SILV was originally designed as a Solana token backed 1:1 by physical silver, with each token corresponding to 1 troy ounce of silver. On September 11, attackers gained control of its 3/5 multisig keys and dumped approximately 46,900 SILV into a DEX with thin liquidity. The notional value before the attack was approximately $3 million, but only about $238,000 was ultimately cashed out.
Odaily News: Ferrari NV tokenized stock RACE has launched on Solana through the Sunrise asset gateway, with Backpack Securities serving as the issuer, effective October 6. Each RACE token is backed 1:1 by one actual Ferrari share held in regulated custody, and holders can redeem it for traditional stock equity through Backpack Securities. The token is supported on trading venues including Phantom, Jupiter, and Raydium, offering 24/7 trading and eligibility for dividends and corporate actions; Backpack plans to expand its tokenized stock tickers on Solana from approximately 200 to 10,000.