Solana Accelerate USA took place on May 5, 2026, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The event featured speakers from companies and institutions, including MoonPay, Kraken, Google Cloud, State Street, Galaxy, SoFi, Paxos, Tether, DTCC, and Jump Trading Group for a full day of announcements focused on payments, DeFi, tokenization, AI infrastructure, and institutional adoption.
Political figures, including Senators Bernie Moreno, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Ruben Gallego, also joined discussions around digital asset regulation and American competitiveness.
Here’s what you might have missed:
Securitize, Jump, and Jupiter Launch Regulated Onchain Equities Trading
Carlos Domingo, Founder and CEO of Securitize, announced a collaboration with Jump Trading Group and Jupiter to launch fully onchain, regulated trading for tokenized equities.
The initiative combines Securitize’s regulatory infrastructure, Jump’s liquidity operations, and Jupiter’s distribution and trading interface into a single stack for compliant onchain trading of tokenized stocks and equities.
Jito Expands Beyond Infrastructure With JTX Trading Platform
Lucas Bruder, co-founder and CEO of Jito Labs, introduced JTX during the course of the event. JTX is a self-custodial trading platform built on Solana that aims to deliver CEX-level execution alongside professional trading tools.
The platform will initially support spot trading, including tokenized real-world assets, before later expanding into perpetual futures and prediction markets.
Jito stated that 80% of protocol revenue generated by JTX will flow back into the Jito protocol. The launch marks a significant expansion for Jito, which has historically focused on Solana’s validator and staking infrastructure.
State Street and Galaxy Launch SWEEP Fund on Solana
State Street Investment Management and Galaxy launched the State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP) on Solana.
The tokenized private liquidity fund aims to provide 24/7 onchain cash management for stablecoin holders.
MoonPay Acquires DFlow in $100 Million Deal
MoonPay revealed it had acquired Solana trading infrastructure platform DFlow in an all-stock deal valued at $100 million.
The deal marked MoonPay’s sixth acquisition since 2025. Previous acquisitions included Helio, Iron, Meso, Decent, and Sodot.
With DFlow, MoonPay appears to be expanding beyond payments and stablecoin infrastructure into execution and trading services.
Solana Foundation and Google Cloud Launch Pay.sh
The “Building the Future of Agentic Payments” keynote featured Rishin Sharma of the Solana Foundation and Devan Mitchem from Google.
Together, the organizations unveiled Pay.sh, a marketplace and coordination layer designed for AI agents and API commerce.
The platform allows autonomous agents to access Google Cloud APIs, including Gemini, BigQuery, and Vertex AI, using stablecoin payments on Solana.
Pay.sh removes several traditional barriers that normally require human oversight, such as account management, subscriptions, and payment coordination.
SoFi, Privy, and Anchorage Expand Stablecoin and Fintech Infrastructure
SoFi announced plans to launch its stablecoin, $SoFiUSD, on Solana. Ben Reynolds, Head of Big Business Banking at SoFi, said Solana’s low transaction costs, settlement speed, and throughput made it the right chain for payments infrastructure.
Privy announced Digital Asset Accounts on Solana. The new product gives developers building fintech, trading, and consumer applications a unified API for user balances, custody management, and cross-chain onchain actions.
Meanwhile, Anchorage Digital introduced plans for “cashless” stablecoin reserves on Solana in partnership with J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Anchorage said the model would allow stablecoin issuers to hold reserves in tokenized money market funds rather than relying on static cash reserves.
Raposa Coffee Brings Web3 Branding Into Major Sports Partnerships
Solana-based NFT project and coffee company Raposa Coffee announced partnerships with both the Miami Marlins and the Miami Heat.
Solana Accelerate Reflects a Maturing Ecosystem
The overall tone of Solana Accelerate 2026 reflected a noticeable evolution in the ecosystem.
While speculative trading and retail applications remain important parts of Solana’s activity, many of the conference’s largest announcements centered on regulated finance, tokenized assets, institutional liquidity, AI infrastructure, and stablecoin-based payments.
The participation of major financial firms, public companies, banks, regulators, and cloud infrastructure providers suggested that Solana’s ecosystem is increasingly positioning itself as a broader financial and internet infrastructure layer rather than only a crypto trading network.
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