Tag: solana
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82 million compatible Galaxy phones can now hold USDC in Samsung Wallet
Compatible devices are not users, and Samsung has not said how many accounts are active.
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Solana now charges 1 SOL, about $100, to file a bug report, after a contest drew 809 mostly AI-written submissions
The fee is meant to stop spam, and nobody can yet say whether it will.
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Solana has switched on Alpenglow, and 150-millisecond finality has yet to be measured
The handover took about 900 milliseconds, and the faster settlement is a target under normal conditions, not a result.
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Ethereum staking has reached 43.8 million ETH while the yield has fallen to 2.63 percent
Bitwise’s quarterly count shows more staked and less earned, with new issuance supplying nearly all of the return.
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SkyAI has sold every Solana token it held and is offering to buy back 95 percent of its shares
A holder with nearly 10 percent wants an independent review of the sales and will not tender on the current terms.
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Solana has set 21 October for Alpenglow, and the 150-millisecond finality is still only a target
The upgrade removes vote transactions from blocks, so Solana’s headline transaction count may fall sharply for reasons that have nothing to do with use.
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Securitize put 12 US stocks on Solana with votes and dividends, but not a place on the shareholder register
The tokens are meant for two round-the-clock venues that have not launched and are not yet approved.
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Samsung will put USDC transfers on 82 million American Galaxy phones, and charge nothing for them
The fee Samsung waives is only one of the fees in a remittance, and nobody has published the others.
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Solana published a way to settle trades in seconds, with JPMorgan’s input and no named user
The bank’s advice is on the label, but so is a disclaimer that it did not build or endorse the thing.
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Victims of the $295 million Drift hack can now claim, at about one cent on the dollar
Tether has pledged up to $127.5 million to the recovery pool, and so far none of it is in there.