Report: Stablecoins Are Reshaping Remittances
A Solana Foundation report details how stablecoins are cutting costs and speeding up cross-border payments, with major firms already launching services.
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A Solana Foundation report details how stablecoins are cutting costs and speeding up cross-border payments, with major firms already launching services.
BitRobot crowdsources real-world robotics data through a network of contributors, addressing the scarcity of embodied AI training data by gamifying robot control and deploying wearable devices like RoboCap.
Solana’s ecosystem expanded in August 2026 with new payment rails, tokenized assets, and DeFi innovations, while network performance improved significantly.
Solana introduced payment channels to reduce onchain friction for agentic payments by authorizing a spending limit once and settling in batches, enabling up to one million payments per second.
Solana has reduced rent requirements, leaving excess lamports in token accounts and program-owned accounts that can now be reclaimed using new instructions.
The Token Supercycle describes the long-term shift of assets, money and ownership onto always-on internet infrastructure, transforming how value is issued, invested and distributed globally.
Solana Foundation announced Breakpoint 2026 will be held in London from November 15–17, bringing together over 8,000 attendees to discuss the Token Supercycle and onchain financial infrastructure.
Solana proposes reducing slot time from 400 ms to 200 ms in four stages to improve latency and bandwidth, with economic and market-structure implications for validators and transaction inclusion.
Solana introduced Transaction v1 to simplify validator processing and expand capacity, replacing legacy formats with a more efficient structure. The update addresses ingestion complexity but may increase serialized size...
Meow enables AI agents to autonomously form companies and open business bank accounts via a single prompt, expanding from Treasury bills to agentic payments and corporate cards.
Reap co-founder Daren Guo argues Asia’s mature fiat and regulatory infrastructure, including Hong Kong’s 2025 Stablecoins Ordinance and Singapore’s 2023 framework, positions the region as a leader in stablecoin adoption...
MoneyGram Ramps integrates with Solana’s developer platform, enabling Solana-based apps to offer cash deposits in 25+ countries and withdrawals in 170+ countries via MoneyGram’s global network.
Solana and Coinbase introduced x402, a protocol enabling AI agents to pay for web resources using stablecoins, addressing long-standing gaps in agentic workflows.
Solana expanded block capacity by 66% in July, enabling 24/7 trading of tokenized equities and real-world assets. Major firms including SK Hynix, Robinhood, and Intel listed shares on Solana, while payments adoption...
Solana’s Breakpoint 2026 in London will explore the ‘Token Supercycle,’ focusing on tokenization’s role in financing AI and commodity infrastructure, with events from November 15–17.
Solana-based platforms are tokenizing physical collectibles like trading cards, enabling instant trading while the items remain in secure vaults, with platforms reporting over 130,000 tokenized cards and $1.6 billion in...
Solana’s real-world asset ecosystem has grown to $3.7 billion across 313,000 holders by July 2026, spanning tokenized Treasuries, equities, private credit, and more. Major institutions like BlackRock, J.P. Morgan, and...
Crossmint launched a single platform enabling enterprises to deploy Solana-based stablecoin rails within days, replacing multi-vendor integrations with one API for wallets, compliance, and payments.
Solana proposes reducing rent-exempt requirements to address state growth constraints, aiming to balance validator costs and security while analyzing economic impacts on account creation and malicious state maintenance.
Solana’s June 2026 ecosystem update highlights tokenized assets, stablecoin settlement, and mainstream integrations, including SpaceX shares, Mastercard’s onchain payments, and WSOP crypto buy-ins.