Lightspeed Newsletter

A new spot SOL ETF filing with the SEC comes a few months after VanEck kicked off the process with a filing of its own

Solana memecoins are collectively at an all-time high

VanEck will now offer regulated access to solana staking rewards on top of the price of SOL

The Solana network itself did not appear to experience degraded performance during the airdrop

Solana’s onchain metrics are at levels unreached, even in the peak of this summer’s memecoin mania

The proposal estimates the change could generate more than $22 million annually

Cube CEO Bartosz Lipinski agreed in a text that having a mobile app is likely to become table stakes for Solana projects

Stablecoins might be the killer non-bitcoin use case for crypto

Solana Boston attracted 250 attendees this past weeks, 90 of whom were students

How courts might respond to memecoin cases is still something of an open question

A bot endorsed a pump.fun memecoin with the ticker GOAT last week

Solana Foundation’s Austin Federa wrote on X that “​​Most of the L2-ish things on Solana are better thought of as Network Extensions”

Odds for Friday night’s boxing matchup between Kain Warwick and David Hoffman were a subject of conversation at Permissionless

SOL’s price is up 606% from a year ago

Customers can pay merchants in USDC or USDP on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, while US-based merchants are paid in dollars

The app has just two tabs, one for making swaps and one for viewing your wallet balance

Kaito AI said Monday that memecoin mindshare is now at a yearly high

Lucid Ventures co-founder Meta said they don’t think Solana is “abnormal” in the VC world, where it’s “standard” for many projects to fail

Sygnum’s head of investment researchthinks Solana can pass Ethereum by drawing institutions for tokenization platforms and stablecoins

The forward-looking financial system is being championed by several contributors to India’s UPI digital money system

The stablecoin’s supply has declined about 50% in the last month, from $660 million to $320 million

On Solana so far, there are two main competitors: Jito and Solayer

However, the SEC’s argument might need a bit of retooling

Total economic value can be considered the income a blockchain makes — and Solana is far behind Ethereum on that count