Friday’s session of Solana Breakpoint 2025 closed with another round of announcements that showcased Solana’s accelerating momentum across mobile, prediction markets, institutional finance, and next-generation DeFi infrastructure.
The day also brought a moment of community attention as Proph3t, the masked and previously anonymous founder of Meta DAO, chose to reveal his identity at the event.
At Breakpoint
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Solana Mobile has launched its Builder Grants program, offering funding and resources for teams building mobile-first crypto applications on the Solana Mobile Stack.
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KAST opens its business waitlist, offering early access to teams.
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KAST Business is set to launch in 2026.
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Phantom wallet launches Prediction Markets with Kalshi, bringing easy onchain event trading to users.
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Starting next week, Phantom users will be able to trade Kalshi prediction markets using any Solana token, from $SOL and $USDC to $CASH and even $Fartcoin.
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Parasol introduces a zk-powered perps engine on Solana that enables faster, fairer, and more predictable execution through app-specific blockspace.
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Carrot launches Turbo Tokens, a new way to take leveraged positions across different assets without liquidation risk.
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R3 to launch a real-world asset marketplace on Solana in early 2026, aiming to bring traditional financial markets onchain and enable direct integration with the DeFi ecosystem.
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Raise Network, the team behind a major global gift-card marketplace, has selected Solana to power its onchain gift-card and loyalty ecosystem.
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Copperx rolls out KOSH, a new freelancer-focused neobank built on Solana
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Light Protocol introduces Light Token, a new Solana token standard that’s 200x cheaper than SPL, fully DeFi-compatible, and now live on devnet.
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Bitget Exchange has launched UEX, a new way for its 100+ million users to trade every Solana token instantly, without a listing process.
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Yesterday, Coinbase announced that its retail app now lets users trade any Solana DEX token using their debit cards, bank accounts, or $USDC.
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The Humidifi team is seeking to improve liquidity for institutions.
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They note that spreads on $SOL have narrowed from 30 bps to 15 bps, and are now around 5 bps, with a longer-term goal of supporting $10M to $100M trades.
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Flash Trade plans to operate entirely on ephemeral rollups starting in Q1 2026.
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This will enable <50ms trade settlement, full Solana compatibility, and native RWA trading.
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Onchain order books set to launch soon.
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Neodyme research reveals that Squads Protocol holds the highest amount of funds locked among all Solana smart contracts.
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MarginFi and its sister app Project 0 to launch $0 token in Q1 2026
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Project 0 is the largest DeFi prime broker
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MarginFi has the longest-running points program on Solana, which began in 2023
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Oro launches $StGOLD and rolls out a global GOLD redemption network
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$StGOLD is a new yield primitive for GOLD
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Oro’s GOLD redemption network spans 5 locations for physical $GOLD redemption.
Outside of Breakpoint
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Pakistan’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority has issued NOCs to Binance and HTX, outlining a phased, FATF-aligned path toward full licensing.
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Justin Sun and CZ attended the ceremony.
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