Solana Foundation's Accelerate China event in Shanghai was suspended on October 16 with officers at the venue, the first stop of a four-city tour. No source ties the halt to China's February 2026 crypto notice, and a similar Shenzhen disruption came months before it.
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Solana Foundation has opened an office in Shanghai Tower, in a country where crypto business is banned. Local sources describe an entry as a tech company with an AI agenda, while the People's Bank of China doubled down on its anti-crypto position earlier this year.
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Solana swaps TowerBFT for Alpenglow on Oct. 21, targeting finality in about 150 milliseconds. CoinDesk reported that vote transactions leave blocks, so counts may fall sharply with user activity unchanged.
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Solana lost about $6.5 billion in a week against a $1.04 million ETF outflow on October 13
Solana fell 9.34% in seven days to about $107 before its October 21 Alpenglow upgrade, according to crypto.news. The one ETF flow it cites, $1.04 million on October 13, is about 0.0017% of market capitalization.
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Solana's durable-nonce replacements can leave failed approvals executable later
Solana Foundation's plan to retire durable nonces gives a roughly six-month migration window, conditional on an audited mainnet replacement. Cold keys would keep approving while program-derived addresses control the affected accounts, CryptoSlate reported.
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Solana cuts its target block time to 200 milliseconds on Friday and shrinks each block to 30 million compute units, so total capacity stays flat. Validators pay for the faster clock by voting about twice as often as under the original 400-millisecond design.
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Samsung Wallet will make USDC its default dollar stablecoin on 82 million eligible U.S. Galaxy devices from late October. The deal gives Circle the default slot and Coinbase custody of the balances, while licensed partner Bastion keeps the customer records and the compliance work.
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Anza researchers' Solana draft halves modeled handover delay with self-reported validator locations
Anza researchers propose ordering Solana's block producers by self-reported location, cutting modeled mean handover delay from 36.2 to 17.0 milliseconds. The chain can verify who signed a location but not where the hardware sits, so the speedup depends on operators reporting honestly.
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Samsung will build USDC transfers into Samsung Wallet on 82 million US Galaxy phones from late October. Whether that reach becomes a cheap way to send money home depends on what Samsung charges to pay into foreign bank accounts.
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Gwangju Bank and Toss clear a stablecoin QR trial ahead of Korea's November bill review
Gwangju Bank and Toss have completed a trial letting customers pay merchants in stablecoins by scanning a QR code, Yonhap reported. Lawmakers review digital-asset legislation in November, and the Korean bank and fintech stablecoin work on record so far consists of tests and study agreements.
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Solana's stablecoin holder addresses passed a record 14 million while supply stayed above $15 billion and card spending topped $1 billion. Spread across those wallets, the card total is about $71 each, too little so far to show the new holders are paying for things.
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Solana Foundation released free, MIT-licensed code that swaps tokenized securities for USDC in one atomic transaction, with finality in seconds. How far it reaches into T+1 and T+2 back offices depends on how many securities already exist as tokens with USDC on the other side.
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Anza moved Solana's testnet and devnet to Alpenglow on Sept. 24 and 25, cutting finality from about 12.8 seconds to a 100 to 150 millisecond target. Mainnet-beta follows an observation period with no date set, the window exchanges and app teams have to retest what they count as settled.
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Block joined the x402 Foundation on Sept. 24 and is adding Bitcoin Lightning to the agent-payment protocol Coinbase built for stablecoins. The move puts a second settlement asset, and a second large payments company, into a standard its creator handed to the Linux Foundation this year.
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buildOne report1 publisher Alpenglow drops a vote account without a BLS key before it counts stake
The consensus set under Alpenglow is the top 2,000 vote accounts by stake, and the filter checks for a BLS public key in vote state before it considers stake at all. Each admitted seat pays 1.6 SOL an epoch.
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Transaction V1 went live on Solana mainnet at epoch 1035 with a 4,096-byte ceiling. Senders opt in and the older formats keep working, so the required updates fall on RPC providers, indexers and explorers.
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Solana's 4,096-byte transactions break the tools that only read blocks
The September 9 format change is optional for senders and mandatory for anyone parsing blocks, and the Jito bundle data Anza used to size it says a 4,096-byte ceiling absorbs between half and two thirds of the workloads that needed a workaround.
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The G7's report carries no binding force and never says the word crypto, arriving four months before the EU wants member states moving, and it pushes quantum readiness into government procurement, which is how the cost eventually reaches private custodians.
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buildOne report1 publisher Token ACL moves the honeypot tell from the freeze flag to the freeze authority's owner
Every scanner the author tested reads a regulated French fund token and a buy-only trap identically, since both are default-frozen Token-2022 mints. The field that separates them is the freeze authority's owner.
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Solana's five-gate rent cut will free $143,100 of locked capital per million token accounts
The first gate delivers about a tenth of that saving and only on testnet, and because the deposit was always refundable, what issuers actually gain is the carry on money the network gave back anyway.
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