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BREAKING: SBI Holdings is building a Japan-led onchain financial market on Solana. With SMFG, a G-SIB, they're bringing RWA and stablecoin markets from Japan to the world.

Every market. Every asset. Every agent. On Solana.

.@Toly explains Solana's mission: "Our mission is to unblock founders. Get them to use the protocol, build applications." "The advantage that we have is that it's very malleable. It constantly adjusts, because you have this huge collection of founders building things without me being the blocker." "I'm not their CEO or their decision-maker. They have their own ideas, their own VCs, their own funding. It means they will just go do things without asking.

Toly on the change Solana created: "You just can't build a slow, expensive blockchain anymore." "Eventually we had won enough market share to where you just had to build a really fast, high-performance system that's great for users. We really set the level there." "That world is gone. You now have to build a functioning company, with traction and users and revenues." "In a lot of ways it's maybe more boring, but it also means it's here forever. People are going to continue building businesses that make money, so it's never going to go away."

1,000 epochs cleared, 1 billion non-vote transactions in one week, and a true 24/7 brokerage went live for real U.S. equities. TradFi sleeps, Solana doesn’t. Here’s what shipped this week: 📰 Headline News - Solana crossed its 1000th epoch - SK Hynix ($SKHY) went live on Solana on the same day as its Nasdaq listing via @Backpack Securities with Sunrise - @alvarezmarsal accepted its first client payment in USDC on Solana - @Backpack launched a 24/7 brokerage for real, non-synthetic U.S. equities 📰 Launches - @altitude added automated expense management matching receipts to card transactions - @jito partnered with @privy_io to launch Fullsend for institutional-grade transaction landing - @ExponentFinance debuted Exponent Strategy Vaults for transparent onchain asset management - @OndoFinance launched 24/7 tokenized stock trading on Solana, with around-the-clock minting and redemptions - @_gammafi rolled out a Gamma x @plumenetwork RWA agent for automated yield exposure - @PhoenixTrade introduced market maker splines for dynamic liquidity curves without order replacement - $MORPHO, $SLX, and $CASHCAT went live on Solana via @sunrise - @world_xyz opened prediction-market access directly inside @claudeai via Solana - @solanamobile kicked off Seeker Summer quests running from July 7 to August 30 - @JupiterExchange introduced "Earn on Recurring", automatically generating yield on idle USDC DCA orders - @sanctumso launched its Investor Relations Hub, providing real-time tracking for key metrics - @stardotfun introduced Internet Rounds for equity-backed community fundraising - @surfcashx integrated @moonpay to allow multi-chain crypto funding for local payments - @1clawAI added Solana support with hardware-enforced HSM keys for AI agents - @usescout_trade launched its retail AI quant analyst in beta with 8 live strategies - @superteam has launched in Argentina with @SuperteamAR - @dexteraisol introduced Dexter Wallet, a self-custodial passkey wallet for mobile browsers - @wormwtf went agent-native with an MCP server featuring 38 trading tools - @jtx_trade teased JTX as a single surface to trade every Solana market, launching July 14 - @useAtelier deployed a new Atelier MCP giving AI clients full marketplace access - @leaps_finance launched upfront premium yield options for SOL, BTC, and stables - @RyderWallet is building an open-source, native C++ SDK for embedded Solana systems - @Claynosaurz revealed a "Watch & Collect" prototype for real-time digital collectibles overlay - @solflare introduced Solana Snacks, a bite-sized video and X Space educational series - @Heistedxyz opened registration for its unhinged heist simulator game - @SuperteamUK announced SpeedBuild 2026 in London with a $20k prize pool for AI challenges - Solana Summit APAC in Singapore is happening October 6, 2026 📰 Milestones - Solana processed 1B+ non-vote transactions in a single week - Tokenized equities $SPCX, $MU, $SNDK, and $DRAM hit $166M in 7-day volume - @world_xyz surpassed $5.3M in notional trading volume - @magicblock Private Sessions scaled from 500 to 115k inside four months - @crediblefin crossed $458M in payment volume ahead of its curated raise with @MetaDAOProject - @PlayKintara hit 30K Monthly Active Users in under two months If you enjoyed this week’s newsletter, please share it with an RT.