Pump's GitHub numbers are very good. 566 merged PRs in the week of October 13 last year. Fast forward to October 12 this year and that number hit 3,260 across their GitHub org. The 4 week average has been climbing hard since August too. Then you look at what Pump shipped this past week. Pump Bridge, EVM limit orders and support for several new chains. For a platform that started on Solana with memecoin launches, the amount they're building now is impressive. PR counts alone don't tell you how big each update is, but the development activity is hard to ignore. Curious what Pump has planned for the Solana side next.

Akash Network community approved Proposal 346 with over 98% yes votes. The decentralized compute marketplace will shift from its Cosmos chain to Solana.

AKT becomes a native Solana token. Migration proceeds in phases after audits, with live leases unaffected until later cutover.

https://x.com/gregosuri/status/2114791803539136710

Source: https://x.com/sunrise/status/2114753743967412416

$GOOGL is now listed on @Solana via Sunrise.
Issued by @Backpack Securities.

$GOOGL Solana contract address (via Sunrise):
GooGLMvZtJZXHdNZy95RUrAMCCKxV6ghK3qE5ddBgVm5
This is the canonical $GOOGL on Solana.

$GOOGL is redeemable 1:1 for the traditional share and transferable to traditional brokerages.
Learn more below.

https://support.backpack.exchange/backpack-securities/tokenized-securities/conversion-flow

Keeper now supports swaps between Solana and ten other networks. Users can buy SOL with a card into their own wallet.

Jupiter, Jito and other Solana apps work in the in-wallet browser. The open-source self-custodial wallet, formerly Tonkeeper, has 77 million downloads.

https://x.com/solana/status/2114717944869712275

Source: https://x.com/sunrise/status/2114763298214449567

$MSFT is now listed on @Solana via Sunrise.
Issued by u/@Backpack Securities.

$MSFT Solana contract address (via Sunrise):
MSFThX899B1DddH5jkyMpdArWXzP85VXLYDrbGGcRJM
This is the canonical $MSFT on Solana.

$GOOGL is redeemable 1:1 for the traditional share and transferable to traditional brokerages.
Learn more below.

https://support.backpack.exchange/backpack-securities/tokenized-securities/conversion-flow

Users can supply USDC to Kamino’s DeFi lending markets straight from the Solflare app.
Ownership stays non-custodial, with no Solflare fees, no lockups, and withdrawals available anytime.

Variable APY has historically ranged 3.5–5.5%. The feature works on mobile, web, and extension. One interface example shows 4.52%.

https://x.com/solflare/status/2114735303042933010

Hey everyone!

I'm a complete beginner in crypto, just downloaded the Phantom wallet and still learning the basics.

I have around $5 sitting in my Phantom wallet on the Solana network. I know it's a tiny amount and I'm not expecting to get rich off it.

A few questions:

1. What's the best coin/token to swap this $5 into on Solana? (SOL, JUP, BONK, or something else?)
   
2. Should I just hold something long-term, or is it worth trying small trades (buy low, sell a bit higher)?
   
3. Will the swap fees on Phantom eat up most of my $5 if I trade?
   
4. Any common beginner mistakes I should avoid?
   

I'm doing this purely to learn how wallets, swaps, and basic trading work. Even a simple "just hold SOL and forget about it" is totally fine as advice!

Thanks in advance!

TL;DR: Total noob with ~$5 in Phantom (Solana). Where should I put it to learn without losing it all to fees or scams?

Tokens by tokens, Backpack also led turnover rate in 5 out of 9: MRNA, SPCX, NFLX, AMD & SNDK.

More insights in our report: https://birdeye.so/research/detail/the-onchain-stock-race-is-heating-up

Community finalists for Breakpoint 2026 awards are set. Categories cover Community, Culture, Creators, Builders and BP26 Awards.

Vote at solana.com/breakpoint/awards. Voting ends November 9. Breakpoint runs November 15-17 in London.

https://solana.com/breakpoint/awards

https://x.com/SolanaEvents/status/2114697645398917317

Hi r/solana,

When I look up a transaction on most explorers, I get instructions, inner instructions, program logs and account lists. Great for developers, but people who just bought their first SOL have no idea what they're looking at.

So I built Simplorer: an explorer that tells you in one sentence what happened. Same transaction, two views:

- Solana Explorer: https://explorer.solana.com/tx/ZP476wVeJhFq6cA9uNvpsDsAEuJc3xc6SUfwEnqtVmbcdpXk9qVkv9JoEobUeNLMzi47byMjjN5h8mTtJwBnzfz

- Simplorer: https://simplorer.app/solana/tx/ZP476wVeJhFq6cA9uNvpsDsAEuJc3xc6SUfwEnqtVmbcdpXk9qVkv9JoEobUeNLMzi47byMjjN5h8mTtJwBnzfz

Simplorer says: "J7eW5q…jJfb swapped 4.09 SOL for 427.03 USDC on DFlow", worth $427.54 at the time.

What it does on Solana:

- Names the apps people actually use, with logos: Jupiter, Pump.fun, PumpSwap, Raydium, Meteora, Orca, Kamino, Jito, DFlow, Phoenix and about 100 in total.

- Counts Jito tips and rent as fees instead of mystery payments, and tells closing empty token accounts as a simple tidy-up.

- Shows the trading firms' own exchanges (HumidiFi, BisonFi …) as what they are.

- Marks fake coins that copy a real ticker ("⚠ fake USDC") and bait transfers.

- Works for wallets too: paste an address and read its history as sentences.

Honest numbers: 94 % of what people do on Solana is told completely (which app, what, how much), measured every day. The rest mostly runs through programs no public source names; those show as "an app we don't know yet". If you know who's behind one, tell me and I'll add it with the source.

Free, no ads, no cookies, no sign-up. It also covers IOTA, Sui, Bitcoin, Aptos, Ethereum, Arbitrum, BNB Chain and TRON with the same words, in English and German.

I'd love your feedback: which transaction confused you lately? Paste it into Simplorer and see if it gets it right.

Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2114356314893689188

Finalized before you finish reading this sentence.

Alpenglow cut Solana’s finality to ~150ms, J.P. Morgan brought its tokenized money market funds onchain, and a tokenized stock did twice as much volume on Solana as on traditional exchanges.

Here’s what shipped:

📰 Headline News

- @anza_xyz shipped Alpenglow, slashing finality to ~150ms in Solana's biggest consensus upgrade yet
- @JPMorganAM’s tokenized money market funds went live on Solana
- @xStocksFi’s VIDAx did 2x the volume on Solana vs traditional exchanges over 30 days

📰 Launches

- Tokenized $TSLA, $META, and $AAPL went live via @sunrise, issued by @BackpackOnchain
- @JupiterExchange embedded native swaps into @DecryptMedia
- @1inch enabled trading for @Ondo's 450+ tokenized equities and ETFs on Solana
- @reflectmoney Create went live, enabling launch of custom yield-split stablecoin
- @BlockRunAI activated Zero Data Retention for privacy-first AI inference
- @birdeye_data launched Peak, a unified digital asset terminal for institutions
- @orca_so added Adaptive Fee profiles, featuring dynamic "Launch Spike" and "Quick Reset" curves
- @altitude shipped multi-entity support for unified corporate treasury and card management
- @listendotmoneydebuted a vibe trading platform powered by AI agents for research and execution
- @MeteoraAG overhauled its DAMM v2 UI with max slippage controls and split-liquidity tools
- @alienorg integrated Solana Attestation Service to launch Proof of Human identity
-@openappsxyz launched AdPad, a USDC-settled peer-to-peer ad marketplace
- @Beezie opened Base-to-Solana migration for collectibles and wallet funds
- @Gableguardians shipped its free-to-play mobile game on @Android
- @peopledotfun opened the waitlist for its conviction trading platform

📰 Milestones

- Tokenized stock holders on Solana crossed 1.5M unique addresses
- Solana processed 8.92B successful non-vote txs in Q3 2026, up 104% from Q4 2025
- @humafinance processed $20B in payment volume, up nearly 3x YoY
- @Backpack Securities crossed $6B in cumulative volume
- @sunrise cleared $15B in total volume in under a year
- @Collector_Crypt recorded its biggest day yet with $24.3M gross revenue and 123K+ packs opened
- @solanamobile's dApp Store crossed 1,500 live apps
- @kamino’s AUTO Market surged 8x in a month, passing $170M in deposits
- Tokenized $SKHY via @sunrise surpassed $500M in cumulative volume
- @Raydium LaunchLab distributed tokenized stocks to 300K+ unique holders
- @solflare and @PhoenixTrade's wallet perps integration crossed $200M in volume
- @GrailBreak hit $1.5M in trading volume
- @hylo_so closed a $1M strategic round led by @SolanaVentures with participation from @colosseum
- @useDiversiFi climbed past $500K in total value locked

Three weeks to Breakpoint, and the next wave of speakers is confirmed. The City of London, the NYSE, the NBA, and the World Series of Poker, all on one stage.

Artwork by @doodles 🔥

The new bridge made me think about this. Launching coins is obviously still a huge part of Pump but building your own cross-chain infrastructure is aimed at someone who's already there to trade. Their announcement says they replaced Relay and saw faster buys, fewer failed buys and better fills in their own testing. That's pretty far removed from "click button, launch Solana memecoin."

Feels like they're trying to own more of the actual trading flow now. I'm curious where people draw the line. Is Pump still a launchpad with a bunch of extra stuff attached, or is it basically becoming a full trading platform?

I recently started trading actively on Solana.

Right now, I'm using a few browser wallets to decide which one I can trust for larger trades. I haven't tried any mobile wallets yet, since I mostly trade on my desktop.

If you look at the feature list of most wallets, you'll see they have very similar security features. For example, the browser extensions that I checked have transaction previews, hardware wallet support, and some level of risk warnings.

I've seen a lot of news recently about fake extensions. So I need your suggestions for finding a secure browser wallet.

Should I look at independent audits, customer reviews, past incidents, or anything else? What do you guys compare before trusting a wallet extension with your funds?

Source: https://x.com/solana/status/2113963979236331925

Read

• TheStreet: Solana’s new engine settles payments in 150 milliseconds 
• The Block: Anza's Alpenglow goes live on Solana, cutting finality to 150 milliseconds  
• CoinDesk: Solana's biggest network change since 2020 is live. Here's how users benefit  
• Decrypt: Solana Alpenglow Goes Live in 'Most Ambitious' Upgrade Since Ethereum's Merge  
• J.P. Morgan Asset Management Expands Access to Its Tokenized Money Market Funds on Solana  
• Genfinity: JPMorgan Brings MONY and JLTXX Tokenized Money Market Funds to Solana for Qualified U.S. Investors
• Crypto.News : Solana pitches Quantumglow to protect Alpenglow from quantum attacks  
• Crypto.News : Securitize confirms 12 stocks live on Solana with eligible US access  
• Crypto Briefing: Solana Mobile's dApp Store passes 1,500 apps  
• Crypto Ninjas: Reflect Lets Anyone Launch a Solana Stablecoin in Under a Minute With Shared Yield
• Decrypt: Trade Where You Read: Decrypt Brings Jupiter-Powered Trading to The Information Exchange  

Watch

• Stabledash: Solana Alpenglow Upgrade Is Live: What You Need to Know Now
• Taking Stock , featuring Amira Valliani from Money20/20
• Yahoo Finance: Solana just replaced the system it's run on since 2020  
• Bloomberg Television: Midterm Politics Played Into Clarity Failure: Rettig  
• The Wolf Of All Streets: Bitcoin Was Recovering. Then Wall Street's AI Problem Hit | Carlos Domingo  
• FintechTV: DoubleZero Is Building a Decentralized Global Fiber Network  
• SolanaFloor: Hyperliquid vs Solana: Kyle Samani's Hottest Takes  
• SolanaFloor: Ledger Just Became Solana Mobile's First Partner  

Listen

• Solana is Global with Alex Scott: The AI Shift Crypto Was Built For with Charles d'Haussy  
• Talking Tokens: Why R3 Chose Solana for the Next Chapter of Corda  
• The Index Podcast: Tim Lee (Titan Exchange) on Solana's Meta-DEX Wars, Zero-Fee Swaps & Beating Binance VIP9  
• The Good Wood Show: Nzube Ezudo from SuperteamNG: Nobody understands your zip code better than you 
• The Index Podcast: Solana's Hedge Fund Secret: Derek Lee (Neutral Trade) on Bringing Institutional Quant Strategies to Everyday Wallets  
• Talking Tokens: How Chainlink Is Preparing for Trillions in Onchain Finance  
• Solana Weekly News: Awaken Founder On Letting AI Do Your Crypto Taxes  
• The Index Podcast: How to Earn Yield 24/7 on Solana: Brad "Bradydonut" (HawkFi) on Agentic Liquidity Providing  

**I'm trying to trade on Pump.fun, but my funds are currently sitting in my PayPal account and i cannot access the crypto section on PayPal. Since Pump.fun only connects to Web3 wallets like Phantom or Solflare and requires SOL, I need to find the cleanest way to move funds from PayPal onto the Solana network.

Pumpfun added crosschain trading back in May, a fair bit later than some other platforms

They've now shared a comparison between Pump Bridge and Relay, including a video of the same buys being executed side by side.

Before, more than 1 in 9 buys through Relay run into an error, with a typical transaction taking almost 4 seconds.

Pump Bridge reportedly had 92% fewer buy errors, faster execution and slightly better token output for the same amount spent.

also Pump Bridge doesn't charge extra bridging fees at the moment.

Anyone here used both? Curious whether the difference is noticeable in regular trading.