The Sol Street Journal - Issue #15: Top Stories From Accelerate, Consensus and Beyond
May 13, 2026
Welcome back to a new edition of The Sol Street Journal!
The past two weeks were all about Miami, with Accelerate USA and Consensus 2026.
Two conferences, one city, and an unreal convergence of the biggest brains and most ambitious teams in crypto: TradFi giants, institutions, builders, AI agents, and even sports brands, all in the same soom.
If anyone still needed proof that crypto is no longer waiting to become mainstream, this was it. Banks, asset managers, payment networks, and Big Tech aren’t watching from the sidelines anymore. They’re shipping. On Solana.
Let’s break it all down.
👑 Milestones
Solana perps volume hits $2.5B on May 12, the highest level in 24 weeks
Only possible on Solana: PreStocks volume just crossed $1 billion
RWAs on Solana hit a new ATH, crossing 200k holders
💼 The New Home For TradFi
The Solana Research Institute (SRI) goes live: an independent, member-funded forum exploring how financial institutions plug into public blockchains, with Solana at the center
Shinhan Card - South Korea’s #1 card issuer - brings stablecoin payments on Solana to its 28M cardholders
Meta enables stablecoin payments via Solana for creators in Colombia and the Philippines
Coinbase Asset Management launches an institutional credit strategy on Solana, spanning public credit, private credit, and structural alpha
WesternUnion‘s USDPT is live on Solana: a federally regulated digital dollar plugged directly into WU’s rails across 200+ countries
Securitize, Jump Trading, and Jupiter team up to bring fully onchain, regulated trading for tokenized equities to Solana
Anchorage Digital and J.P. Morgan Asset Management unveil Cashless Reserves: tokenized infrastructure to back stablecoin reserves on Solana
State Street’s tokenized onchain liquidity fund SWEEP goes live on Solana, in partnership with Galaxy
🫡 Every Token on Solana
$MEGA from MegaETH is live on Solana
DeLorean Labs brings $DMC to Solana via Sunrise
📊 DEXs & Prediction Markets
Parasol is looking for pro traders to co-build the first ZK-powered perp DEX on Solana
Humidify launches Aquarium: transparent, smart contract-governed market making for deeper liquidity and tighter spreads
Jito BAM rolls out its first Maker Priority plugin: deterministic execution for prop AMMs
The BULK Client SDK goes live: open-source access to BULK for traders and AI agents
Bench releases its prediction market discovery platform
Jito unveils JTX at Accelerate Miami: a self-custodial trading app with CEX-grade execution, charts, and portfolio in one surface
Full perp speed! Solana secures the @perps handle on X
💧 DeFi, RWAs & Payments
MoonPay acquires DFlow, the DEX aggregator and prediction markets API behind tens of billions in volume
Avici teams up with PreStocks for zero-fee, 24/7 retail access to pre-IPO shares
Phoenix opens 24/7 commodities markets on crude oil and gold
Forward Industries and Rockaway co-lead OnRe’s $5M Series A, while $FWDI commits up to $25M into ONyc, OnRe’s revenue-bearing RWA token on Solana
KAST introduces USD cashback for their card
Bullish tokenizes its full cap table - 151M shares - on Solana, after acquiring Equiniti
preOPAI is coming to Bitget IPO Prime: pre-IPO exposure to OpenAI, issued on Solana through Republic
🔧 Infra
Helius ships getTransfersByAddress: parsed token and SOL transfer history for any wallet in one RPC call
At Consensus 2026, Toly confirms Alpenglow ships next quarter
RockawayX launches Zela, a Remote Procedure Execution platform that collapses the full transaction workflow into a single near-producer call
✨ For the Buildoors
Superteam India announces Startup Village 2026: a 10-day residency for top devs, founders, and creatives. May 15-25, Mumbai
Forma sets up its first permanent node in the UK. Bristol, June 2026. Residency applications are open
Colosseum‘s Frontier Hackathon wraps up, may the judging phase begin!
🤖 Agents > Humans?
Moonpay launches the MoonAgents Card: agents can now spend USDC on Solana anywhere Mastercard is accepted
OKX introduces APP (Agent Payments Protocol): the open standard for agentic commerce, live on Solana since day one
Solana Foundation and Google Cloud launch Pay.sh: agents can now pay-per-request for Gemini, BigQuery, Vertex AI, and more, using stablecoins on Solana
Starchild rolls out its Skill Marketplace: one Solana skill covering payments, token transfers, and full app-building for agents
NoahAI releases Noah 3.0, the new vibe coding layer on Solana
🧠 For the Overthinkers
Solana Ecosystem Call: April recap ft. Solbrothers
Billions - Podcast: The Evolution of Prediction Markets and crypto casnos with Nigel from BetHog
The Stack - Podcast: Hotspots & Circuit Breakers with Noah Prince from Helium
Live from Superteam USA: Solana Consumer Day
Accelerate USA 2026: the full playlist for everything happened on stage in Miami
Article - Coindesk: Lily Liu says Solana is building the payment rails for the ‘AI machine economy’
That’s a wrap for today.
See you again on Wednesday, May 27 - same street, new stories.
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