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the Solana core development team Anza posted on X platform stating that Mainnet Beta Transaction V1 will begin activation at epoch 1035, expected around September 15 at 1:20 UTC. The ecosystem team stated that more time is needed to test and integrate V1 support; V1 is currently live on devnet and available for integration testing. In V1, compute budgets are set through new transaction configuration settings. Compute budget instructions remain usable in legacy transactions and V0 transactions, but will not take effect in V1; application developers, even if they do not plan to send V1 transactions, need to check how the relevant changes affect their applications.
Odaily News: Zora co-founder Dee Goens posted on X that he will take over as CEO, while co-founder Jacob is stepping down and leaving Zora after more than 6 years as CEO. Meanwhile, Zora had already undergone layoffs earlier this year, and the team now numbers fewer than 10 people, with further adoption of AI Agents to handle tasks such as Slack workflows, code writing, and incident response.On the product side, Zora has expanded asset issuance to Robinhood and Solana, and supports cross-chain transactions across Robinhood, Solana, and BNB Chain; it also launched Custom Pairs, allowing users to create new tokens paired with tokenized stocks, meme coins, and mainstream crypto assets, with more than 4,000 trading pairs created since launch.He stated that the next phase will focus on implementing the ZORA token buyback and reward mechanism to further align the platform's business with the interests of ZORA holders, while also restarting community incentive distribution, prioritizing mobile product development, and continuing to expand the user base for social trading and on-chain markets.
Zora's incoming CEO, D. Goens (@dg_goens), announced that Zora has implemented several major adjustments this summer: On the product side, the platform has expanded beyond Base to support Robinhood, Solana, and BNB Chain, launching a custom pair creation feature with over 4,000 trading pairs established to support stocks, meme coins, and mainstream assets. On the team side, the company has completed layoffs, shrinking its workforce to fewer than 10 employees, and has deeply integrated AI technology to improve operational efficiency. In terms of leadership, co-founder Jacob stepped down as CEO, succeeded by fellow co-founder D. Goens. The incoming CEO stated that future priorities will include advancing the $ZORA token buyback and holder reward mechanisms, resuming community incentive distributions, accelerating mobile product iterations, and committing to greater transparency in community communications.
According to an official tweet from Pump.fun, Pump.fun has officially launched Custom Pairs on Solana, allowing users to issue Meme tokens paired with tokenized stocks (such as $BA, $BABA, $DJT, $PFE, etc.), major crypto assets, and precious metals. The update adds 20 new asset pairs, powered by partner @sunrise. It maintains the same fee structure as standard Pump.fun launches, and includes creator fee settings alongside a feature for sharing among up to 10 people.
Pump.fun announced the launch of its Custom Pairs feature on Wednesday, allowing creators to choose tokenized stocks, wrapped Bitcoin, Ethereum, and metals as quoted assets when issuing tokens, no longer limited to SOL and USDC trading pairs. The number of supported quoted asset pairs has now reached 93, covering tokenized Nvidia, Tesla, and S&P 500, among others. Custom Pairs has been rolled out in the token creation form, with bonding curve and PumpSwap protocol fees consistent with standard issuance, of which 50% of the revenue will flow into the PUMP buyback and burn contract.
Odaily News, Bonk Guy stated on the X platform that he had previously been pessimistic about Solana, even writing an analysis favoring Robinhood and BNB Chain, arguing that Solana would lose significant market share and attention in this cycle. However, his view has recently begun to shift toward a bullish stance on Solana and its ecosystem.Bonk Guy believes that Solana has recently re-embraced the "trench" culture and has started to more actively promote community projects. At the same time, Solana's management proactively reached out to him to understand how to better align with the community and the "trench" ecosystem. Additionally, Solana officials and core members have recently begun to proactively recognize ecosystem projects such as $STONK and $USELESS.These changes are not simply positive for a specific token, but rather reflect a top-down cultural shift within Solana, as well as management's proactive efforts to address issues in the ecosystem. He emphasized that his past criticism of Solana was never about the technology or infrastructure, but rather about the ecosystem culture and the impact of "extractors" on Solana's new projects and users.Bonk Guy also revealed that his originally planned long-form analysis, which was bearish on Solana and bullish on Robinhood and BNB Chain, will first be shared with the Solana team for reference. Due to the recent changes that have made him more optimistic, he may adjust his views and ultimately publish a more balanced analysis.Bonk Guy concluded: "My Solana bias is changing."
According to Chaoshan Research, Bernstein’s September 8, 2026 research report indicates that Robinhood Chain has rapidly become a revenue engine since its launch on July 1, generating approximately $33 million in fees over the past 15 days. This ranks it first among all blockchains, significantly ahead of Solana (approximately $11 million) and BNB Chain (approximately $9 million). Daily transaction fees on the chain range from $2 million to $4 million, with Robinhood retaining approximately 90% of the revenue. Bernstein maintains an "Outperform" rating with a price target of $160, implying approximately 31% upside potential from the current stock price. On the on-chain data front, Total Value Locked stands at approximately $1.5 billion, while cumulative DEX trading volume exceeds $50 billion. The value of tokenized stocks has risen from approximately $10 million to $140 million; stablecoin supply has reached approximately $1 billion, marking a sharp increase from $241 million in early July. Bernstein projects that annual on-chain fee revenue could reach $160 million by 2028.
Odaily News: DeFi Development Corp announced the completion of an $11 million CHAD preferred stock offering, with Fundstrat's Tom Lee participating in the subscription. The company stated that this offering marks the first digital credit instrument backed by Solana. CEO Joseph Onorati noted that Bitcoin has demonstrated a massive market demand for digital credit.
Odaily News, Tom Lee stated that during historical crypto bull market cycles, the ETH/BTC ratio typically rises as Ethereum's usage increases relative to Bitcoin. The ICOs of 2017-2018, the NFTs of 2020-2021, and stablecoins in 2025 have all served as significant catalysts driving Ethereum adoption growth.Lee believes that in the next cycle, Wall Street's tokenization of assets and deployment on blockchains, as well as Agentic AI's use of blockchain technology, could further push the ETH/BTC ratio higher.Lee noted that heading into the final months of 2026, the crypto market is facing several positive catalysts, including the anticipated CLARITY Act vote in mid-September, South Korean investors re-entering the crypto market and rotating from AI stocks, and the "four-year cycle" which he believes will bottom out in the coming weeks. These factors could pave the way for a significant influx of institutional capital in the last months of 2026.Lee also pointed out that since Q3 2026, ETH has been the best-performing macro asset, outperforming the S&P 500 by 5,430 basis points as of last Friday. The three best-performing assets since June 30 are ETH, BTC, and SOL. He believes that crypto assets' significant outperformance relative to other macro assets so far this quarter is likely to further attract institutions to increase their crypto allocations. (PRNewswire)
Odaily News: Bybit Alpha has now listed $OTC for trading. $OTC is a Solana-based token that, when burned, mints an OTC Desk NFT, granting holders automatic access to tokenized stocks, Pre-IPO assets, and yield distributions. The current on-chain price of OTC is approximately $0.025, with a market cap of $16.6 million.
Odaily News, according to an official announcement, Gate has officially launched stock event contracts. The first phase exclusively features four popular stock underlyings: MU (Micron Technology), SNDK (SanDisk), SKHYNIX (SK Hynix), and Unitree Robotics, while simultaneously opening 5-minute and 15-minute short-cycle bullish/bearish trading markets.It is reported that Gate has become the first trading platform to support stock event contracts, further extending event contract trading coverage to both crypto assets and traditional stocks. Currently, the platform supports crypto assets such as BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, HYPE, and BNB, as well as stock underlyings including MU (Micron Technology), SNDK (SanDisk), SKHYNIX (SK Hynix), and Unitree Robotics. Users do not need to use leverage or pay margin, and only need to predict the price direction of the underlying within a specified time period to participate in trading. At present, users can access trading via the Gate App or official website by navigating to [Contracts] - [Event Contracts] and filtering by the [Stocks] category.
According to the official announcement, Huobi HTX will open STONK/USDT spot trading and grid trading at 18:00 (UTC+8) on September 8. STONK deposit services are now open, and withdrawal services will be available at 18:00 on September 9. It is reported that StonkFun is a token issuance and trading platform built on Solana. Tokens issued on this platform are traded through Raydium's concentrated liquidity pools, and can use tokenized stocks, commodities, Meme assets, and others as pricing assets.
Odaily News: Jupiter, a decentralized finance platform on Solana, announced that its physical card product Jupiter Gacha has been natively integrated into Jupiter Mobile. Users can purchase, open, and collect physical trading cards within the iOS and Android apps, including graded Pokémon and One Piece cards.Jupiter Mobile has surpassed 1.68 million downloads across iOS and Android platforms, with 240,000 monthly active users. Over the past 30 days, the app recorded a trading volume of $575 million, generating $770,000 in fees.After users purchase digital card packs in the app, packs are opened via smart contracts and verifiable on-chain randomness; each NFT corresponds to a physical card that is graded, certified, and stored in an insured vault by a third party. When users redeem physical cards, the corresponding NFT is burned and the delivery process is initiated, with insurance coverage during shipping. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to Bithumb's official announcement, Bithumb will officially list the Useless (USELESS)/KRW trading pair on September 8, 2026 (today) at 2:00 PM, supporting the Solana network, with a reference price of 309 KRW.
According to CoinGecko data, potentially influenced by the upcoming launch of a meme coin by former US President Biden’s son, the SOL ecosystem meme coin BODEN has broken through $0.002 and is currently priced at $0.00209, up 20.1% in the past hour. Another meme coin, HUNTBODEN, briefly surpassed $0.0001, currently reported at $0.00006787, with a 1-hour gain of 331.5%.
: Solana plans to activate the Transaction v1 upgrade on Wednesday, increasing the maximum size of a single transaction from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes. After the upgrade, large cryptographic proofs, multi-signature operations, and certain privacy transactions can be completed within a single transaction without requiring splitting. Existing v0 and legacy transaction formats will remain compatible, but wallets, explorers, and data services will need to update to recognize the v1 format and the new priority fee information. (Coindesk)
Odaily News - According to the official announcement, Gate has launched perpetual contract trading for STONK, BEN, and ZCAT, all supporting 1-10x leverage for both long and short positions, with trading bots and copy trading features simultaneously enabled.STONK is the platform token of StonkFun, a Solana token launchpad; BEN is an official character-style Meme token launched by Flap to showcase the "Stock Meme" product concept; ZCAT is a Zcash-themed Solana Meme token launched on StonkFun, featuring a cat with its face covered by a paper bag.
Odaily News: Gate has officially launched a new one-stop on-chain trading product, "FOMO Hunter," aggregating hot multi-chain assets and Meme trading scenarios. It covers multiple major public chains including Robinhood, SOL, ETH, Gate Layer, BSC, Base, SUI, ARB, World Chain, AVAX, Polygon, LINEA, ZK, OP, and Berachain, supporting hot Memes, promising small-cap tokens, and various other types of on-chain assets.In terms of trading fees, "FOMO Hunter" applies a unified 0.5% buy and sell fee rate. Users trading Robinhood Chain assets through "FOMO Hunter" can also enjoy a limited-time Gas (network fee) waiver. For the trading experience, users can directly trade on-chain using their Gate account assets without needing to create or connect a wallet, or frequently transfer assets or switch networks. They can also query real-time quotes and K-line charts via token names or contract addresses, enabling "search-to-trade." Additionally, "FOMO Hunter" focuses on a Meme social trading ecosystem, supporting features such as Callout leaderboards, KOL leaderboards, and active account displays. Furthermore, leveraging Gate's deep liquidity and high-performance matching engine, it further enhances on-chain trade execution efficiency while reducing wait times and slippage.This launch further lowers the barrier for users to participate in on-chain trading and enriches Gate's Web3 asset trading scenarios. Going forward, Gate will continue to improve its on-chain trading infrastructure and product experience, providing users with more convenient and diversified Web3 trading services.
Raydium officially announced that its LaunchLab now supports trading across any token pair on the platform. This upgrade brings a more flexible token pairing mechanism to Solana, while delivering deeper liquidity, lower fees, and an enhanced native Meme trading experience.
Sunrise has announced that Arbitrum's token, ARB, is now live on Solana through Sunrise and can be traded on applications such as Phantom, Solflare, Jupiter, fomo, Archer, DFlow, Titan, Kamino Swap, and Mayan.