The Sol Street Journal - Issue #19: Boom. Solana: Faster, cheaper, quicker
July 17, 2026
Welcome back to a new edition of The Sol Street Journal!
Five years of uptime. A thousand epochs. Still accelerating.
New assets from every corner of the market keep finding their home on Solana and the liquidity to match. DEX records, tokenized equities, payments, DeFi, institutions. The everything chain is living up to its name, louder than ever.
BOOM.
Let's see what stood out over the past two weeks.
👑 Milestones
Solana fees hit a 30-day high, up ~60% in June 2026
RWAs hit a new ATH at $3.4B+ in total value
Solana apps cross $4.4B in cumulative revenue
Onchain payment volume on Solana rose 87% YoY - card payments alone processed 5x more volume than last year, hitting $420M
Tokenized asset spot volume grows from $2.69B in Q1 to $5.7B in Q2 - a quarterly ATH
Solana crosses 1B non-vote transactions in a single week - a new network record
Perp DEXs on Solana cross $1B in 24h trading volume for the first time
Tokenized equity value on Solana hits $535M - a new all-time high
Solana celebrates its 1,000th epoch
💼 The New Home For TradFi
Forward Industries ($FWDI) expands its Solana treasury by 500K+ SOL in Q3 2026, now holding over 7.5M SOL
Spiko goes live on Solana - one of the fastest-growing tokenized funds in history, managed by Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager with €2.4T AUM
Securitize is bringing its own stock onchain on Solana - the same $SECZ shares listing on the NYSE, issuer-sponsored, tokenized, and available globally on day one
SBI Global Asset Management and DigiFT launch $JX on Solana - the first time a Japanese asset manager’s equity strategy goes live onchain
$TRUBILL from TruYields is now live on Solana: tokenized US Treasury yield built to institutional standards, backed by the AAA-rated ULTRA Fund, with T+0 redemptions and onchain utility
🫡 Everything on Solana
$BOT from RoboStrategy is now live on Solana via Sunrise, issued by Backpack Securities - a closed-end fund investing in leading private robotics and embodied AI companies
Sunrise lists its 28th asset, cementing itself as the go-to venue for onchain trading of tokenized stocks, RWAs, and tokens on Solana
$SLX from Solstice goes live on Solana via Sunrise - the access, utility, and governance token of the Solstice ecosystem
$MORPHO from Morpho, DeFi’s third-largest lending protocol by TVL with $7B+ across 39 chains, is now live on Solana via Sunrise
SK Hynix ($SKHY) is live on Solana via Sunrise - the $28B Nasdaq listing and largest foreign share issuance in US market history, onchain from day one
$CASHCAT goes live on Solana via Sunrise
$HOOD from Robinhood is now live on Solana via Sunrise, issued by Backpack Securities
Bending Spoons ($BSPx), the Italian software company behind Evernote and Splice, goes live on Solana via xStocks - global access to the IPO at the institutional price, onchain from day one
📊 DEXs & Prediction Markets
World unveils as a fully onchain prediction market, live in Phantom with Chainlink as oracle infra - politics, sports, crypto, culture, all onchain
Drift rebrands to Velocity
FlashTrade deploys V2 out of beta - sub-50ms execution, 500x leverage, and 2bps fees across 100+ assets
JTX from Jito goes live - trade spot markets on Solana across memes, tokenized equities, majors, and more
Jupiter introduces Earn on Recurring: funds in your DCA orders now earn yield in Jupiter Lend between each buy, fully automatic, live for USDC
Imperial releases Imperial Prime - more leverage when you want size, more room before liquidation, lower borrowing costs
TradingFloor hits Solana: a live trading show where the sharpest traders pitch and defend a thesis in real time - every Wednesday on X
💧 DeFi, RWAs & Payments
Kamino activates the Hyperithm USDC Apex Vault - a curated institutional lending vehicle
Project 0 and Titan Exchange enable one-click looping of Principal Tokens across Project 0, Kamino, and Jupiter Lend via Project 0’s credit pool
Alvarez & Marsal, the global professional services and restructuring advisory firm, accepts its first client payment in USDC on Solana - enterprise money is moving onchain
Hylo introduces eHYUSD: a fully delta-neutral yield-bearing asset earning yield from every Hylo Leveraged Token
Backpack eliminates stock trading fees through July to celebrate the expansion of Backpack Securities
🌍 Community & Opps
Marinade launches SolanaVenezuela to support those affected by the June 24 earthquakes - stake SOL, keep your SOL, donate only the yield, flowing directly to aid on the ground
$94K in opportunities live on Superteam Earn
Superteam Thailand officially launches
Superteam Argentina officially launches
Colosseum announces selections for its 5th accelerator cohort, sourced from the Frontier Hackathon and rolling sprints
Star introduces Internet Rounds: the fastest way to get any app, agent, startup, or idea funded by a community that wants to see you win
Seeker Season 2 is live: 4 rounds, 2 weeks each, 4 hand-picked apps per round - complete quests, earn badges, running July 7 to August 30
Superteam UK announces SpeedBuild 2026: London - $20K on the clock, 3 blind AI challenges, 12-hour livestream, 1 winner
Solana Summit APAC returns to Singapore on October 6 - ahead of Token2049
🔧 Infra & Buildoors
Agave v4.2 is staged for August: 200ms slot times (down from ~400ms), larger transaction size limits, lower rent - and the groundwork for Alpenglow’s ~150ms finality
Doublezero releases its Q2 2026 Network Update
Alpenglow is heading to mainnet in Q3 2026 - transactions final in 100-150ms, down from 12.8 seconds, with ~75% more block space freed from network overhead. 98% of validators already approved it
Anza releases Solana Kit v7, adding React hooks and transaction introspection
🤖 Agents > Humans?
Worm AI launches in beta: ask it what to trade, it finds the setup, sizes the position, and hands it over ready to go
Exa goes live on Solana: accountless web and content search for agents, paying per request in USDC via x402
Nika Finance launches NikaAI - a natural language interface for trading global perps, stocks, and index markets with up to 200x leverage
OKX debuts the OKX AI Marketplace: autonomous agents can list services, discover tasks, and transact in stablecoins
Gamma releases a Plume Network RWA agent: deposit USDC and get automated exposure to financial-grade RWA yield, managed and rebalanced by agents
Atelier launches its MCP: full marketplace access for any AI client - buyers hire and pay agents, sellers manage listings and get paid. Works with Claude, Hermes, and any MCP client
Dexter AI launches Dexter Wallet: a self-custodial wallet for you and your agents, funds earn yield while idle and sign via Face ID or fingerprint from mobile
World integrates natively into Claude - for the first time a DeFi app lives inside an AI model, and it’s happening on Solana
🧠 For the Overthinkers
Humans of Solana - Podcast: An interview with Farhaj Mayan, co-founder of Forma
The Privacy Show - X Live: Cat McGee sits down with Vitorpy (SOL Strategies) and Andyweng (MagicBlock)
Birdeye Data - Report: H1 2026 on Solana - Primed for the Third Leap
SolanaFloor - Report: Solana Tokenization Roundup: June 2026
CoinDesk - Article: Solana launches onchain governance and sets entry fee at 100,000 SOL staked
SolanaFloor - Article: Open Standard unveils $OUSD, a stablecoin for the internet economy
The Index - Podcast: Solana’s new fundraising frontier, ft. Proph3t of MetaDAO
The Index - Podcast: Michael Hwang, CEO of Orca, on powering Solana’s liquidity
That’s a wrap for today.
See you again on Wednesday, July 29 - same street, new stories.
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