On Friday in Abu Dhabi, the Etihad Arena hosted roughly 7,000 attendees who witnessed a series of high-impact developments that reinforced Solana’s accelerating pace of technical progress and institutional adoption. Solana Breakpoint 2025 delivered major infrastructure breakthroughs, including the Firedancer launch, alongside new tools, product expansions, and deepening institutional commitments.
The day began with reflections from Solana’s founders, with Raj Gokal announcing that the next Breakpoint will take place in London in November 2026.
Both he and Anatoly Yakovenko discussed the network’s evolution.
The morning’s updates captured a network moving quickly toward greater scale, broader utility, and stronger integration across traditional and onchain markets.
At Breakpoint
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Firedancer is now live on Solana mainnet.
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Firedancer has been in development for 3 years.
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Successfully producing 50,000 blocks after running on a handful of validators for 100 days.
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Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko reacts to the news, saying, “Pour one out for the beta tag.”
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Anatoly had previously said he would stop calling it beta once Firedancer reaches a 33% stake on the mainnet.
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Hex Trust to issue and custody $wXRP on Solana, bringing a 1:1-backed wrapped version of XRP to Solana’s DeFi ecosystem.
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$wXRP will have over $100M in TVL and will enable $XRP trading and liquidity with $RLUSD across supported chains.
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Temporal says Harmonic, a block-building system being tested on the Solana mainnet, has produced blocks fully filled with Humidifi oracle updates.
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around 10,000 oracle updates per block, about 25x the current mainnet average.
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Metaplex launches Genesis SDK on Solana.
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This enables exchanges and aggregators to build token launchpads and monitor new token launches using its fair-launch smart contract.
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Debridge launches Bundles, a new execution layer that aims to eliminate onchain complexity for users and developers.
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Kamino has rebranded and launched six new products, expanding beyond lending into a full-stack institutional and tokenized-asset infrastructure layer on Solana.
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Titan Exchange announces it is launching limit orders soon.
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Pyth Network announces the $PYTH Reserve and will use protocol revenue via the DAO treasury to deploy one-third of its treasury each month for $PYTH buybacks.
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Drift Protocol to launch its mobile app in Q1 2026, along with $DLP, a new liquidity provider token for its platform.
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Figure announced that it filed for a second IPO with the SEC last week, seeking permission to issue equity natively on Solana.
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Huma Finance and Obligate partner to expand access to Trade Finance liquidity.
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Huma provides the stablecoin liquidity that fuels the system.
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Obligate delivers the compliant issuance infrastructure needed to support institutional participation.
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TradeFlow acts as the asset issuer.
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The combined structure will deliver sustainable-yield products to decentralised finance users, asset managers, and enterprises seeking transparent, asset-backed exposure.
Outside of Breakpoint
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J.P. Morgan has arranged a U.S. commercial paper issuance for Galaxy Digital on Solana
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This is one of the first debt issuances executed on a public blockchain.
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The USCP was purchased by Coinbase and Franklin Templeton
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Circle minted $500 million of $USDC on Solana.
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The DTCC has received an SEC No Action Letter authorizing DTC to tokenize DTC-custodied assets.
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The DTCC is the main post-trade market infrastructure for US securities.
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Assets include Russell 1000 equities, major index ETFs, and US Treasuries. Rollout begins in 2026.
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YouTube has launched an option for U.S. creators to receive payouts in PayPal’s $PYUSD stablecoin.
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Solana spot ETFs have now recorded 10 consecutive days of net inflows, totaling $11M yesterday.
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