Day 1 of Solana’s flagship event closed out Thursday with a rapid stream of announcements that underscored the network’s accelerating institutional adoption and expanding real-world asset footprint. Breakpoint continued to set the tone for the week as major players across finance, infrastructure, and consumer applications revealed new initiatives that push onchain activity into more mature and scalable territory. The pace of updates within the venue mirrored the momentum outside it, as consumer platforms, trading products, and cross-chain infrastructure delivered developments that rounded out a milestone day for the Solana community.
At Breakpoint
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Paxos has applied to the SEC to become a clearing agency.
- This enables Paxos to hold bonds and stocks directly and issue them natively onchain, allowing users to hold the actual underlying assets rather than derivatives.
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Keel, an onchain capital allocator, has launched Season 1 of its Tokenization Regatta campaign.
- It plans to deploy $500 million to attract RWAs to Solana
- It will be the largest single placement of real-world assets on Solana to date.
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Bitwise announced that their Solana ETF has been buying 3-4x the network’s new issuance since launch.
- Compared with Bitcoin and Ethereum, this is an important metric because, over time, it was the reason their prices began to rise. Bitcoin ETFs almost bought 2x the issuance.
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Max Resnick, Lead economist at Anza, says Solana is “ready today” for $68T in onchain equities.
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He added that it’s permissionless and builders can create anything they want.
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Wormhole reports that $12 billion has been bridged from other chains to Solana.
- The company reports that over 318,000 new users have migrated to Solana this year alone.
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Sanctum introduces its mobile app, set to launch in 2026
- Mobile users get up to 10% $SOL rewards paid daily, instant rewards, and collectibles.
- Focus is on making $SOL staking easier for a wider audience
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15 core contributors at DoubleZero are dedicating fiber cables to build a faster, alternative internet rail for Solana.
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Singapore Gulf Bank has announced a fee waiver for SGB users to mint and redeem $USDC and $USDT on Solana.
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D3 and InterNetX partner to bring over 46 million internet domains to Solana as tokenized RWAs.
- Domains to be bridged to Solana via Doma Protocol.
- The move brings one of Web2’s largest asset classes onchain for the first time.
- This enables programmable, DNS functional domains to trade, borrow, and integrate across Solana’s DeFi and identity stack.
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OSL, a digital asset platform, has announced $USDGO, a fully regulated USD-backed stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital.
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Stablecoin to launch first on Solana.
Outside of Breakpoint
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Polymtrade, the mobile trading terminal for Polymarket, has introduced gas-free $SOL deposits.
- The terminal is sponsoring all Solana transactions for users.
- This is paving the way for the upcoming Kalshi integration powered by DFlow.
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