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After the FTX collapse in 2022, many assumed Solana activity would permanently decline. Instead, the network kept growing across users, developers, stablecoin transfers, DEX volume, and consumer activity. What’s notable is the diversity of usage. The growth wasn’t driven by one narrative. Over the last few years Solana became a major hub for DeFi, memecoins, payments, prediction markets, gaming, AI apps, and retail trading simultaneously. Low fees and fast finality changed user behavior. When transactions cost fractions of a cent, entirely new categories of high-frequency onchain activity become viable. Even memecoins, despite the criticism, became one of crypto’s largest onboarding funnels, bringing millions of users onchain and driving wallet growth, liquidity, and trading volume. Regardless of whether someone is bullish on solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 itself, the data increasingly shows Solana evolved from a speculative alt L1 into one of the most actively used blockchain networks in crypto.

NYSE President Lynn Martin joined the delegation of U.S. business leaders participating in President Trump’s historic state visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week. Following the summit in Beijing, @lynnmartin travelled to Shanghai at the invitation of the White House to represent the U.S. business community at a ministerial forum as part of this year’s APEC 2026 Second Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM2) and Related Meetings. Read more:

BREAKING: The CLARITY Act just cleared committee. For years, crypto built without a rulebook. Now the rules are catching up to the builders. The New Money Era isn't coming. It's being written into law.

The U.S. Senate Banking Committee is set to vote on the crypto market structure bill today at 10:30 AM ET. Hats off to all the companies specially Coinbase for their relentless efforts to progress this bill.

How @OKX plans to bring the $69T US stock market onchain “At Consensus Miami, OKX Global Managing Partner @Haider Rafique joins CoinDesk Live to unpack the exchange's new partnership with Intercontinental Exchange & its vision for tokenizing US equities.”

Our AI infrastructure releases have focused on exposing wallet, exchange and onchain functionality through agent-compatible interfaces. Our repositories now include, 1. Agentic Wallet with TEE-secured signing 2. MCP integrations for AI-native workflows 3. CLI + Skills tooling via Onchain OS 4. Agent Trade Kit components for trading automation 5. Transaction simulation and risk grading before execution 6. Multi-chain support across Ethereum, Solana, X Layer and others 7. x402-compatible payment tooling 8. DEX routing, wallet operations and transaction broadcasting APIs The current architecture exposes these capabilities through, MCP servers, CLI tooling, Open APIs and installable Skills repositories This is the vision set by Star to develop AI infrastructure while preserving execution controls around signing, permissions and transaction risk. There is more coming in the near future.

The CLARITY Act heads to committee markup this Thursday. Biggest moment for US crypto regulation in years. If it clears, what does it change for you? As a trader, a builder, or just someone locked-in on The New Money Era? Drop your answers below 👇