News linked to both this project and an event.
According to GlobalNewswire, DeFi Development (DFDV), a Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury company, disclosed that it added approximately 26,203 SOL to its holdings last week, bringing its total position to roughly 2.5642 million SOL, valued at approximately $302 million. DFDV also revealed that its SOL and equivalent asset holdings have grown by approximately 11% since reporting its second-quarter results on August 12. Additionally, it completed the initial dividend distribution for its CHAD Variable Rate Preferred Shares on October 1. This instrument is designed to generate returns through SOL staking and validator node operations to fund dividend payments and act as a financing mechanism for further SOL accumulation.
Odaily News: Bitget PoolX has launched a new round of lock-up events, where users can lock XAUT, SOL, or XRP to participate in sharing a 100,000 BGB airdrop. The lock-up channel will be open from October 2 at 14:00 to October 9 at 14:00 (UTC+8).Among them, the XAUT lock-up pool has a total airdrop of 45,000 BGB, with an individual lock-up cap of 300 XAUT; the SOL lock-up pool has a total airdrop of 35,000 BGB, with an individual lock-up cap of 10,000 SOL; the XRP lock-up pool has a total airdrop of 20,000 BGB, with an individual lock-up cap of 400,000 XRP.This round's XAUT lock-up pool supports a long-term holding bonus mechanism. The system will provide an additional bonus on the locked amount based on the user's minimum XAUT holdings over the past 15 days. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.
Odaily News: Open Standard has announced the official launch of its USD stablecoin OUSD. Enterprises and developers can now use OUSD to build internet-native financial services and products for banking, cross-border payments, settlement, and institutional trading. OUSD offers 4 integration paths, with related APIs and tools covering settlement, payment orchestration, trading, foreign exchange, wallets, and card services, all supporting free minting and burning at a 1:1 USD rate.Enterprises can currently access it through Mastercard, Stripe, and the Visa Stablecoin Platform, with Coinbase integration opening on October 1. OUSD will natively support Base, Ethereum, Solana, and Tempo, and will first launch on centralized and decentralized trading platforms including Coinbase, Kraken, and Uniswap. OUSD is issued by Stripe-owned Bridge, with reserve assets held at BlackRock, Lead Bank, and BNY Mellon, and proof of reserves will be published monthly.
Solana ecosystem project Paid has announced that its new claim system is now live. The fee distribution has been adjusted from 80% to recipients and 20% for PAID buybacks, to 65% to recipients, 25% for PAID buybacks, and 10% retained by the protocol.
European stablecoin issuer AllUnity has announced the launch of USDAU, a US-dollar stablecoin compliant with the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). The token maintains a 1:1 peg to the U.S. dollar through segregated reserve assets and is currently deployed across multiple networks including Ethereum, Solana, Base, Tempo, Arc, and Polygon, with plans to integrate additional blockchains by year-end.
Odaily reports: European stablecoin issuer AllUnity has launched the U.S. dollar stablecoin USDAU, its fourth fiat-backed stablecoin. USDAU maintains a 1:1 peg to the U.S. dollar through segregated reserves and is now live on Ethereum, Solana, Base, Tempo, Arc, and Polygon.AllUnity is regulated under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and has previously issued the euro stablecoin EURAU, the Swiss franc stablecoin CHFAU, and the Swedish krona stablecoin SEKAU. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: On September 30, Byreal, a DEX in the Solana ecosystem, saw its cumulative trading volume surpass $5 billion. Byreal fully launched to the public on September 30, 2025, and today marks the one-year anniversary of its launch.According to previous reports, Byreal's tokenized stock xStocks trading volume exceeded $100 million in the past 30 days, making it the DEX platform with the second-highest xStocks trading volume.
Odaily reports: Solana ecosystem tokenization platform Metaplex has announced the launch of MPL-3643, a new standard for permissioned real-world assets and tokenized securities on Solana, enabling issuers to issue assets directly on Solana without the need for a wrapped asset model.The standard embeds transfer restrictions, lock-up periods, and compliance lifecycle management into assets, and is built on Token-2022, sRFC 37, and Solana Attestation Service. MPL-3643 has now entered a limited-access Alpha phase.
Decentralized perpetual swap exchange Velocity (formerly Drift) announced that co-founder Cindy Leow has officially stepped down, with the rebuilt team continuing to operate the protocol going forward. Formerly known as Drift, a perpetual swap protocol on the Solana ecosystem, Velocity has recorded over $150 billion in cumulative trading volume since its launch in 2021. After undergoing restructuring in April and receiving support from Tether, the protocol was renamed Velocity in July and recently rolled out a test version encompassing five markets. Furthermore, the protocol has completed security audits and open-sourced its code.
Odaily reports: Paid posted on X that the web claim portal is now live, allowing users to claim eligible new fees, with the relevant assets to be distributed in the quote asset corresponding to the fees, which in most cases is SOL.Paid stated that additional claim methods, such as via direct message or by tagging the official account in a post, will be introduced later. X Money payments remain suspended, with a resumption date to be announced; users' historical balances will be preserved separately, and the team is developing a separate claim plan for those balances.
Solana has stated it has gradually reduced its target Slot Time from 400ms to 250ms, during which the network's skip rate remained stable and the stall time caused by consecutive skipped blocks was also shortened. However, shorter Slot Times have led to increased voting latency, with nodes in Asia and South America being the most affected, so further reducing to 200ms before Alpenglow goes live still requires caution.
Odaily News: On-chain analytics platform Nansen has launched a search feature covering over 200,000 wallets linked to mobile copy-trading app FOMO on Solana and Base, allowing users to query their holdings, trades, and profit or loss data. The feature also includes associated addresses that are not visible within the FOMO app interface; Nansen's database has now labeled over 500 million wallets.FOMO launched around May 2025 as a non-custodial copy-trading platform supporting multi-chain gas-free swaps. Since its launch, cumulative trading volume has reached billions of dollars, with weekly revenue hitting $264 million in 2026. It completed a $75 million Series B funding round in June, bringing total funding to approximately $94 million.
Odaily News - Nasdaq-listed company DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV) announced that since September 21, it has increased its holdings by approximately 47,706 SOL, bringing its total SOL and SOL equivalents holdings to approximately 2,538,010, currently valued at approximately $309 million. This increase brought its SOL holdings up approximately 2% week-over-week, and up approximately 10% since the release of its second-quarter earnings report on August 12, during which it accumulated more than 226,000 SOL. (Globenewswire)
According to Odaily, Binance Chinese stated on X that Binance Wallet now supports paying Gas fees with USDT, covering BNB Smart Chain, Ethereum, Solana, and TRON, with more public chain networks to be supported in the future.
Odaily News: Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko stated that the industry is "not ready" for Alpenglow, the blockchain's next major upgrade. Previously, Anza engineers had migrated the Solana developer network to the Alpenglow consensus protocol. This upgrade will change how blocks are processed, with the goal of reducing transaction finality time from approximately 12.8 seconds to 100–150 milliseconds.
Odaily reports: Solana's Alpenglow upgrade has gone live on devnet and testnet, aiming to reduce transaction settlement time from 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds.The upgrade changes how validators reach consensus and moves validator votes out of blocks; even with user activity unchanged, the reported total transaction count will decrease. The mainnet launch date has not yet been determined, and the 150ms target has not yet been consistently achieved in a live market environment. (CoinDesk)
Solana's core consensus upgrade Alpenglow has officially entered its second public testnet, with transaction settlement latency expected to be reduced from approximately 13 seconds to 150 milliseconds.
Odaily News: DoubleZero co-founder Austin Federa posted on X platform stating that DoubleZero operates the raw Shred service, can provide related services at lower costs, and returns 45% of the revenue to validators. However, recently in some private chats, certain "well-known industry figures" have been spreading baseless FUD. Nevertheless, DoubleZero will remain firmly committed to supporting Solana. DoubleZero currently provides free high-speed connectivity for over 60% of Solana staking, with approximately 75% of Solana validators using DoubleZero, and more services for Solana will be launched in the future.
Odaily reports: DoubleZero has launched a dedicated fiber market data service for decentralized exchange Hyperliquid, enabling professional trading institutions to obtain complete order book data via fiber optics rather than relying solely on public APIs.The service covers Hyperliquid's native perpetual contracts as well as markets operated by trade[XYZ], which provides perpetual contracts linked to assets such as crude oil, gold, and silver on Hyperliquid's infrastructure.DoubleZero's Edge market data service had previously integrated with Solana and prediction market Kalshi, making Hyperliquid the third platform to adopt the service. (Cointelegraph)
According to Odaily, Solana officially announced that the Zama token ZAMA has launched on Solana via Sunrise.