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The original was posted on /r/cryptocurrency by /u/ansi09 on 2026-08-16 19:04:06+00:00.

Somewhere between a corner store, a silver vault, and a gacha machine, Solana had a week. Cash access hit nearly 500K retail locations, silver came onchain fully audited, and a luxury watch is waiting to be pulled.

Here’s everything that shipped this week:

📰 Headline News

• @MoneyGram launched Ramps on Solana, giving builders access to 60M+ customers across ~500K locations in 170+ countries via one API

• B@ullish executed the first tokenized equity trades on a regulated exchange, settling Solana-tokenized $BLSH 24/7 in stablecoins

• Solana’s RWA ecosystem reached a new all-time high of $3.9B in total value

• Solana set a new single-day record processing 171.9M non-vote transactions

• @sunrise brought tokenized Nebius shares ($NBIS) to Solana, issued by @Backpack Securities

📰 Launches

• @JupiterExchange launched Lend v2, with Smart Vaults turning loans into active DEX liquidity

• $SILV launched via u/sunrise, backed 1:1 by @Dominion_Market’s audited physical silver reserves

• @re’s reUSD went live on Solana

• @ThunesPayments enabled 24/7 EURC prefunding on Solana, bridging digital assets with 90+ fiat currencies

• u/@project0 and @_gammafi launched ML Vaults to capture cross-market spreads and optimize yields in real time

• @Collector_Crypt and @watchdotfun launched vault-backed luxury watch RWAs with gacha and arena redemptions

• @Pumpfun launched daily, volume-based Callout Rewards for callers in its app

• @MonkeDAO launched JungleFun with @magicblock, offering verifiable onchain pack openings

• @birdeye_so introduced Wallet Tracker for monitoring traders, holdings, and watchlists in one dashboard

• @Artifacte_inc launched Rip Room, enabling live-streamed pack openings with direct-to-wallet onchain minting

• @fomo launched Dev Tags, letting teams claim tags to update holders and build communities in-app

• @SuperteamCAN announced Solana Summit Canada for September 23–24

• @JurassicFi announced its tokenized dinosaur fossils launch on August 17

• @tokens open-sourced its platform

• @BitRobotNetwork opened applications for Access IDs to its Open Robotics Lab

• @solana_devs unveiled a seven-week Solana School fall program, running August 31-October 16

• @solanaspaces and @spenders_club announced Solana Summer House on Aug 29

• @SuperteamUK launched their 24/7 office in Somerset House

📰 Milestones

• @Collector_Crypt officially crossed $1B in cumulative gross revenue

• @crediblefin crossed $1B in total payments volume

• @kamino’s Institutional Commodity Yield Vault crossed $25M in deposits

• @LaunchOnSF has crossed over $86,000,000 of volume in 10 days, with 19k+ unique holders

• @metaplex set a July record with 900K+ Core assets created, pushing the total past 8M

• @HusherExchange surpassed $200M in cumulative private Solana swaps

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