🪙 Solana Breakpoint Day 1: Recap | @iansintel

✤ Backpack: Pay for food & coffee with crypto via XSGD
✤ Drift raises $25M Series B round led by Multicoin Capital
✤ Frankendancer upgrade is now live on Mainnet. The full Firedancer client now on testnet. Achieved 1M+ TPS in testing
✤ Fuse Wallet announces Fuse Pay, a virtual Visa card
✤ Paypal Head of Crypto: “Crypto is too big for us to ignore”, “Ethereum isn’t fit for payments”, “Token extensions was a big reason why we chose Solana"
✤ Phantom announces "embedded wallets", with seedless sign-in, full-featured UI, and "Universal Phantom accounts"
✤ Photo Finish Game ($CROWN) now live on the Apple App Store
✤ Shopify blinks allow merchants to sell products on X via Solana
✤ Sky (prev. MakerDAO) proposes to launch on Solana
✤ Sling announces support for Solana: send money to 140+ countries
✤ Solana Mobile 2 (Solana Seeker)
✤ Squads Protocol launches V5 to "accelerate account abstraction"
✤ Tensor is now fully open-sourced
✤ Zeta to launch Zeta X on Bullet, a Solana L2

Jupiter
- Acquires CoinHall and SolanaFM
- Launches token, price, and swap APIs
- To launch Jupiter RFQ next week
- Perps V2: Limit orders, Dove Oracle, and gasless transactions
- To launch mobile app on the Apple App Store and Google Play
- Mobile app has gasless transactions, one-tap swaps, and zero fees
- Mobile app to enable Google & Apple pay and credit card on-ramps
- Announces ape.pro, a memecoin trading terminal (0.5% fees)
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Institutional

✤ Citi to leverage Solana for their systems
✤ Société Generale announces the first bank stable on Solana (Euro denominated)
✤ Franklin Templeton announces their money fund is coming to Solana
✤ Securitize (issuer of Blackrock’s BUIDL fund) to add native support for Solana

Attendance: "standing room only" [1, 2]

🪙 Solana Breakpoint Day 2: Recap | @iansintel

Breakpoint 2025 will be in Abu Dhabi, from Dec 11-13, 2025

✤ BONK announces Exchange Traded Product (ETP)
✤ Coinbase to bring cbBTC to Solana
✤ deBridge token to launch on Jupiter's LFG Launchpad on Oct 17th, 2024
✤ DRiP launches Open Beta for iOS and Android
✤ Full Firedancer client now live on Solana mainnet in non-voting mode
✤ Jambo announces JamboPhone 2
✤ Kamino to launch Spot Leverage feature
✤ Marinade partners with Zodia Custody to provide institutional clients access to SOL staking
✤ Metaplex announces the "Metaplex Aura Network"
✤ Pyth announces V3, enabling "Oracle Integrity Staking (OIS)"
✤ Ranger Finance unveils Solana's first perp DEX aggregator, capable of executing positions up to $4.5M
✤ Sanctum to launch Creator Coins and Cloud Card
✤ Travala adds support for Solana